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November 9, 2004
Great Music, Irritating Web Page
Monday night at The Middle East, I got a chance to see The Advantage, a band that specializes in covers of 8-bit Nintendo songs. They also need to be award a prize for the most headache-inducing web page design that doesn't include the use of the blink tag. The venue was crowded, perhaps owing to the band's being featured in The Boston Phoenix.
Now, one would think that having a Nintendo theme-song cover band would have good nerd-rock opening bands in the tradition of Man or Astroman? No dice, as we were treated to Confusatron, who can't quite figure out whether they're a death metal band, a surf rock band, or a nerd-rock band. So promising, and yet they don't deliver-- though that last surf-rock song at the end was a good way to finish an otherwise vapid set. They were followed by Menomena (WARNING: click on at your own risk), who, along with having an even more headache-inducing web page than The Advantage, can be best described as a nerd jam-band. Except that jam-bands aren't my thing.
Pictures to follow as soon as I get around to putting them up.
Posted by Dean at November 9, 2004 11:12 AM
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wait, is that the same Nintendo cover band that played Steer Roast?
Posted by: jcl at November 9, 2004 1:55 PM
The group playing at the Middle East was a different one. The band which played at Steer Roast was The Minibosses, who played a show there in 2001. (scroll down to show #21)
Posted by: Dean at November 9, 2004 5:47 PM