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"Woo Hoo For You" by Thomas Conner
Tulsa World - Spot Magazine (July 20, 2001)
SECOND CONCERT WILL SPOTLIGHT LOCAL BANDS FEATURED
ON COMPILATION CD
They'd be playing for about 10 minutes before I
realized this was still the soundcheck. I wasn't
the only one wondering, thank heavens. Everyone
who walked into this show at Curly's a couple of
weeks ago stared quizzically at the stage for a
few moments - at a drummer firing randomly like
a string of Black Cats, at a guitarist alternating
between a pretty improvised melody and something
like he's cleaning his nails with the strings, and
at a bassist hiccupping through his instrument like
a convulsing Les Claypool. It was loud and painful
and weird and enthralling and somehow not so free-form
that we could write off the band as mere wankers.
It was jazz.
Before the real show began, bassist James Plumlee
asked everybody at the bar if they had ear plugs.
A moment later, he returned with handfuls of plastic-wrapped
foam plugs and stocked the unarmed. Such an arsenal
is just good defensive strategy when Antenna Lodge
attacks from the stage, which they'll be doing again
this weekend as part of Woo Hoo Too, a second concert
celebrating the release of Yawn Records' compilation
of Tulsa rock bands, "Woo Hoo Bank!"
"If the bands keep coming to me and saying
they want to do these shows, I'll keep doing them."
Said Yawn mastermind Joe Cinocca, pondering the
plural of Woo Hoo shows. The namesake CD features
local and regional bands such as Fanzine, Epperley,
Jenny Labow, Zen Hipster and Sybil's Machine, as
well as national and international acts such as
California's Lazlo Bane and Sweden's Merrymakers.
The disc is available at most Tulsa-area record
stores.
Antenna Lodge kicks off this weekend's show with
its blistering attack. They're not your average
aggro-metal band, and - thank God - singer-guitarist
Kelly Kendrick doesn't rap over his guitar blast.
What they
do is maintain control of a crashing plane, jerking
and screeching before things level off and then
plunging again. Plumlee whacks at his bass, jumping
around the stage as if someone put a bee hive down
the back of his shirt. It's amazing he hasn't killed
Kendrick or himself with a bass-neck blow to the
head.
Also on the bill are Tulsa pop veterans Epperley,
now free from their straitjacket recording contract
and toying with some new songs, and Tex Montana's
Fireball Four, which this weekend will feature guest
guitarists Greg Klaus from Fanzine and Tony Romanello.
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