Live Review: Bob’s Daisy Glaze (Bob Garfield and Co.) at The Brothers Lounge…

Category: Reviews — Tags: , — @ 12:39 pm May 7, 2018

Bob’s Daisy Glaze at The Brothers May 4, 2018. Bob Garfield is seated right.

by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

There’s a problem with one-off performances like the Bob’s Daisy Glaze gig at The Brothers last Friday night: Even if the gig kicks ass, you’re likely never to see or hear it again. And man, I’d love to hear the band again.

This was a special performance held in conjunction with Bob Malave-Garfield’s 50th birthday. Bob is a veteran of Omaha’s ’90s Golden Age, having played bass in Frontier Trust, Acorns and Dude Wyoming, among others. He’s something of a local treasure, and when you’re a local treasure, you can surround yourself with talent.

For this gig, Garfield, on guitar, was joined by guitarist David Nance, arguably one of the most important talents to emerge from the Omaha music scene in the past five years. Mike Tulis, who handled bass, has been a music scene fixture for more than a decade, currently riding high in Lupines. Drummer Susan Hendrick was the wildcard. Tulis tells me she used to play with Todd Grant, Matt Rutledge and Mike Fratt in Compost during the early ’90s.

Together they sounded like a tight classic rock band with indie rock flair — I was reminded of heavy Yo La Tengo or maybe Crazy Horse, though neither of those quite fit. The six-song set included five Garfield originals that throbbed with locomotive intensity. Garfield handled the vocals while seated on stage, belting out the words to songs like “She Was a Millionaire” and “Charm School.”

It all came together for the final song, a cover of T Rex’s “20th Century Boy” that took that riff-fueled tune and stretched it into a massive noise jam. Teresa and I were seated over by the bar beyond the crowd of standers and tables. About four minutes into the song the guitar solos began — both Garfield and Nance. People got out of their seats to see what was going on, it was one of these moments where you knew you were hearing and seeing something special. Keeping it rolling was Hendrick and Tulis, pounding out a solid rhythm line. Hendrick absolutely killed that drum set and I have to wonder where she’s been and why we don’t see more of her. Any band would be lucky to have her behind the kit.

After the smoke cleared, the entire club sang happy birthday to Bob and enjoyed some cake. It was just another in a long series of special evenings at The Brothers. Now if we could only get these four together again…

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Bob’s Daisy Glaze, Travelling Mercies, Silversphere, Once & Future Band Saturday; Zola Jesus, Alice Glass Sunday…

Category: Blog — Tags: , , , — @ 12:52 pm May 4, 2018

Zola Jesus at The Waiting Room, Oct. 11, 2017. She returns to The Waiting Room Sunday night.

by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

Finally we get a nice weekend of weather, and a nice roster of shows…

It starts tonight at The Brother’s Lounge. Bob’s Daisy Glaze is a super group featuring David Nance, Susan Hendrick, Mike Tulis and the band’s namesake Bob Malave-Garfield. As the esteemed Mr. Tulis described on the event invitation: “Bob Garfield played bass for many bands from Omaha’s late 1980s and early 1990s so-called ‘Golden Age’ of local bands, including but limited to Clambake, Acorns, Pioneer Disaster, Frontier Trust, Dude Wyoming and Pleasure Closet.” This show also celebrates Mr. Garfield’s 50th birthday. I’m not sure when the music starts, but probably around 10.

Also tonight (Friday) Travelling Mercies celebrate the release of their new LP Cheap Labor at The Waiting Room with Jack Hotel. $10, 9 p.m.

Over at fabulous O’Leaver’s Silversphere (ex-Lepers) headlines with Unclefoot (electroclassicalprogcoregrass trio) and Sam Martin (genius singer/songwriter). $5, 10 p.m.

It’s also Benson First Friday (#BFF). If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by The Little Gallery, 5901 Maple St., for It’s Not a Phase, Mom, a teen art show from 6 to 9 p.m.

Tomorrow night (Saturday) it’s back to O’Leaver’s for Once and Future Band. The Oakland act has stuff released on Castle Face Records, whose roster includes such stellar acts as Oh Sees, Uranium Club and Prettiest Eyes. Ryan Menchaca and Invisible Horses opens along with Win/Win (members of Fortnight). $7, 10 p.m.

Also Saturday night, Matt Whipkey plays at The Down Under with Tragic Jack (ex-Millions). This one’s free and starts at 9:30.

Finally Sunday night Zola Jesus returns (remember her Ten Questions interview?) to The Waiting Room co-headlining with Alice Glass, the solo project of Crystal Castles’ Margaret Osborn. Pictureplane opens at 8 p.m. $20.

And that’s all I got. If I missed your show, put it in the comments section. Have a great weekend.

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