Comments on: NO NEIGHBORHOOD IS ROUGH ENOUGH. THERE IS NO CLIP THAT’S FULL ENOUGH. http://vt.klicart.com/2008/02/27/no-neighborhood-is-rough-enough-there-is-no-clip-thats-full-enough/ badass motherfuckers Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: decoy http://vt.klicart.com/2008/02/27/no-neighborhood-is-rough-enough-there-is-no-clip-thats-full-enough/#comment-152 decoy Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:01:51 +0000 http://vt.klicart.com/2008/02/27/no-neighborhood-is-rough-enough-there-is-no-clip-thats-full-enough/#comment-152 The first time I heard Weight was the first time any of us would — at Mootsy's, in a packed room with cigarettes ablaze and the beer chilled. I wasn't expecting to feel like I had just been beaten by a man-mountain sloth and then shoved face-first into a fryer, but I was. Usually, shows involve some yokel fighting his microphone, screaming like a ninny, then rushing off on an oh-so-emotional bender while the band plays silly riffs and jumps into the air like they're playing an invisible game of jump rope. You don't have a reaction, just the usual "Gee, I'm going to get another beer, make this night at least worth something." Then it turns into any other night at the bar: "Let's get really drunk and do something stupid." But Weight is different: The band projects visual and sonic symmetry. On guitar is Aaron Powell (also of Belt of Vapor), whose understated technique helps form the group's melodic component together with bassist/electronica artist Dave Griffiths. On the kit is Joe Preston, one of the most naturally fluid drummers in town. They don't have a vocalist. They claim not to need one. A Weight performance begins with patterns of bass and guitar lines weaving individual, interlacing melodic threads around a sturdy rhythmic foundation. Samples add texture and atmosphere. It's amazing what three quiet guys can do with a few instruments. The bar scene is a sinking ship, and usually I'd rather be floundering in hopes that a yellow inflatable boat will pass. I wouldn't go to a bar to listen to a sassy yahoo punk band or whatever other tomfoolery is being currently displayed. But as scared as I am of bars, I would go to one to see Weight. That's how good they are — to check them out, I'd risk going to a place I now fear more than anything. — Phil Bailey, with Mike Corrigan Phil Bailey is a local artist, music junkie, occasional waiter and man about town. Joe Preston happens to be the art director for The Inlander. The first time I heard Weight was the first time any of us would — at Mootsy’s, in a packed room with cigarettes ablaze and the beer chilled. I wasn’t expecting to feel like I had just been beaten by a man-mountain sloth and then shoved face-first into a fryer, but I was. Usually, shows involve some yokel fighting his microphone, screaming like a ninny, then rushing off on an oh-so-emotional bender while the band plays silly riffs and jumps into the air like they’re playing an invisible game of jump rope. You don’t have a reaction, just the usual “Gee, I’m going to get another beer, make this night at least worth something.” Then it turns into any other night at the bar: “Let’s get really drunk and do something stupid.”

But Weight is different: The band projects visual and sonic symmetry. On guitar is Aaron Powell (also of Belt of Vapor), whose understated technique helps form the group’s melodic component together with bassist/electronica artist Dave Griffiths. On the kit is Joe Preston, one of the most naturally fluid drummers in town. They don’t have a vocalist. They claim not to need one. A Weight performance begins with patterns of bass and guitar lines weaving individual, interlacing melodic threads around a sturdy rhythmic foundation. Samples add texture and atmosphere. It’s amazing what three quiet guys can do with a few instruments.

The bar scene is a sinking ship, and usually I’d rather be floundering in hopes that a yellow inflatable boat will pass. I wouldn’t go to a bar to listen to a sassy yahoo punk band or whatever other tomfoolery is being currently displayed. But as scared as I am of bars, I would go to one to see Weight. That’s how good they are — to check them out, I’d risk going to a place I now fear more than anything. — Phil Bailey, with Mike Corrigan

Phil Bailey is a local artist, music junkie, occasional waiter and man about town. Joe Preston happens to be the art director for The Inlander.

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