No Use For A Name, The Mad Caddies, Bracket & Consumed

No Use For A Name, The Mad Caddies, Bracket & Consumed
The Brick Works
Thursday, February 3

I was sitting downstairs in The U-Bar while The Mad Caddies were playing when I decided to go ahead and discard all the laws of physics and attempt something previously undone in show reviewing. I headed across to Bill Fishkin and said with much conviction, "I'm upstairs right now watching the show."

"Oh yeah?" he asked, looking puzzled.

"Yeah. I just decided to be in two places at once. It would be the only way to cover this show. I'll sit here in the U-Bar and drink beer, and be upstairs watching the show. It's completely logical. I saw something on PBS about how Carl Sagan proposed this was possible."

"Oh," said Bill, as if he understood. "You really are the professional. Now I remember why we hired you."

"Damn right," I reminded him, then I realized I needed to use the facilities and excused myself to the restroom. There I made an even greater stride in my continuing quest to take show reviewing to an entirely different level when I discovered that the wastebasket (or it could have been one of the faucets) makes a sympathetic vibration to the note A. I'm pretty sure it was the note A, but it could have been F or C, because I don't really know tones well, but I noticed that every time the certain tone was played on the bass, one of the bathroom fixtures vibrated. And not every note, just the certain one, that's why I proposed it was a sympathetic vibration and not just random deep bass rattling the place. But based solely on the fact that the bassist was able to accomplish this feat, that he could play one of the fixtures downstairs in The U-Bar with such competency and simplistic skill, I'm not afraid to declare that the entire show was a complete success. Based solely on this one fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say The Mad Caddies ruled live. They were the bomb-diggity in bathroom-fixture-jiggling live music. Also, to prove I haven't been one-sided or afoul of my duties in show reviewing, I talked to one John Pierson later, who said also that No Use For A Name, and I quote, "Rocked."

In the 'other random notes on live music' arena, I confirmed from an unnamed source close to the scene that NOFX and Green Day are going to headline this summer's Warped Tour with probable support from Pennywise. It was related to me that the tour's organizer, in an effort not to have another wacky bill like last year's tour, said to Fat Mike of NOFX and Fletcher from P.W., "You tell me who we should book and we'll get them." And that's that. I guess punk rock really isn't dead.

– M. Cameron Newell

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