  No sleep till.... Brooklyn. Last night, Karim and I braved the West side of Brooklyn to see one of the greatest rock shows ever. I fully endorse on these here pages THE RYE COALITION. I'm putting the link up today. I've never seen a band play that well.
Imagine David Lee Roth singing for Iron Maiden about girls and beer. That's a lot of rock. The guys in the band were from Jersey City, aka "The Dirty Jers", and had been together for over 10 years. Herb the guitarist was very cool. Stevel Albini produced their first two albums, and the next one will be on Interscope and is being produced by Dave Grohl. That guy is just too damn busy, but everything he touches turns to gold. Herb told Karim and I that he would tie us down to the pool table if we were too drunk to drive.
That's a band that cares. The next act was The Minibosses from Arizona. Wired magazine ran a full feature article on them back in November because they play old Nintendo soundtracks. Karim knew their drummer from elementary school, a cool guy named Matt who was very happy to see Karim at the show. Honestly, I was nervous for them. The Rye Coalition would be a tough act for any band to follow.
But when I saw them just wailing out the theme of Mega Man, the crowd was going nuts. They finished the set with a two-for-one, Castlevania 1 & 2. Awesome. So the headliners, The Eagles of Death Metal, featured Josh Homme (former frontman of one of my favorite bands Queens of the Stone Age). Unfortunately he was drumming and they put this cheeseball with a mustache out front. They were supposed to be some sort of southern blues outfit. None of it worked. The guitars sounded bluesy, but they were too distorted. They didn't have a bass player. And the southern fried joke got old really fast. The biggest mistake they could have made was putting Josh Homme in the back.
He's a good drummer and he's fun to watch, but he hits like an 8 year old girl. They were making a bad attempt to rip off the Reverend Horton Heat, without a really good bass player. Oh well Josh. You shouldn't have quit the day job. 
