Weekend of local rock volume 4

If you’re looking for political stuff, check out the next post. This one was more fun to compile!

Wekend of local rock? Well, sort of. Unfortunately, my friends from Semiblind has some transportation problems and had to cancel Saturday’s show. So I made the trip to “slower lower” for nothing; however, I did get back in time to catch a trio from songs from Lennex as they closed out a “Battle of the Bands” at Bennett High School.

But on Friday night at the Monkey Barrel I did get to see four bands, one local and three from the mid-Atlantic region. What I’m going to do is post the pictures tonight and, because this is a very busy week for me and the focus is on the upcoming Salisbury City Council election, later this week I’ll review the Friday show on my companion Myspace site.

As always in these photo posts, the captions tell the story. Just hold your cursor over the pics, they’ll come up.

Baltimore-based guitarist Gene Gregory opened up the show at the Monkey Barrel, March 30, 2007. Normally I'm not a big acoustic fan, but he played up a storm.

The one local product in this diverse show, Aaron D. Howell wears a heavy influence on his sleeve, or in this case his shirt featuring blues legend B.B. King.

Aaron D. Howell and his band played a good assortment of blues, classic rock, and some original tunes.

If a band has a drum kit that looks like this - you know they'll be heavy.

Virginia-based Property didn't disappoint, with a ferociously heavy three-guitar attack. They played almost all originals, with Metallica's 'Creeping Death' and a supercharged version of A Flock of Seagulls 'I Ran' thrown in for good measure.

Property lead singer and guitarist Justin Earven.

Wrapping up the show was another Virginia-based band, Funksion. It's unfortunate that I have just a still photo, lead singer Josh Asble is quite the enegetic guy on stage. If you ever see me in a shirt that just has (f.) that's their shirt.

This shot was the one picture I took at Lennex's show on Saturday night. Had I known that my Semiblind show had been called off, I would've made it over here. By the way, I've corrected the oversight of not linking to the OC-based band!

So that was my weekend. Now back to the political stuff…

Author: Michael

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One thought on “Weekend of local rock volume 4”

  1. Don’t forget Amen. The Animal (even though they weren’t there). Their new singer is awesome!!!!

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