Recent content by Mencken's Tub

Gonna absorb a 'Jason Newsted and Friends' benefit show...at Syracuse's Everson Museum (superb little auditorium...250-ish seats available)...in mid-July. He's a central NY 'local' during the summer months...as he owns a ginormous lakeside shanty in Skaneateles (a few miles SW of 'Cuse). The...

Clutch - "Blast Tyrant" Joe Walsh/Barnstorm - "Barnstorm" Porcupine Tree - "In Absentia" Masters of Reality - "Blue Garden" King's X - "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska"

Heading to Philly, this Saturday...to see Porcupine Tree at The Met. Freakin' giddy.

I'm partial to the Islay expressions...but...when the mood strikes for something non-peated...this...is what I reach for.  Rillyrilly great...un-chill-filtered/no-color-added dram.  I made a point to tour their distillery in Doune, Scotland last Summer.  Picked up a bottle of their...

Top ten...loudest, perhaps.  I saw them in 1988. Three minutes into their set...and I was running as though my mullet was on fire to the bathroom so I could grab a wad of tp for each of my ears (they were preparing to detach themselves from the sides of my head...sprout legs...and run for the...

Thus far...I've seen: Big Wreck, Uli Jon Roth,...and Neil deGrasse Tyson (last Tuesday...he was kinda rockstar-ish *shrugs*)... As far as this spring/summer stands...I've purchased tickets for: Petty/Walsh, JJ Grey & Mofro, Clutch/Primus, The Who/London Souls, Jason Isbell & The 400...

Last Saturday night, while The Bride and Spawn #2 were watching Sia perform at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, I was fortunate to score a ticket to the sold-out Dream Serenade benefit for The Beverly School (a school for developmentally disabled students in downtown Toronto).  Admittedly...I...

I concur... I saw the first show of their Popestar Tour...two nights ago (Rochester NY).  They opened with Square Hammer...and closed with Monstrance Clock.  It was the most spectacle-y spectacle I've watched...in recent memory. Tighter than a gannet sphincter in a feeding...