silverphial... how can you be this good?

    During my time in the psych scene in L A when i wasn't too smacked out to stand or see i had the pleasure to hear some of the best music on the planet... now i know that it is fashionable to think that the only good places to be from as a musician are Brooklyn or Montreal... but if you ask me those two cities are more full of shit than L A for once simple reason... in L A we know we are full of shit ... and we own it... now that that is out of the way allow me to get to the task at hand... me and the fellas from my old band "ROCKING HORSE PEOPLE" staggered into an art gallery opening to play a gig with a band called "SILVERPHILE"... most times when i would play a show i would focus on our set and then proceed to get as fucked up as possible so i could ignore the rest of the bands playing on the bill... but this night i made sure i was together enough to be able to see straight enough to focus on SP's set... i had played a show about two or three weeks prior with 1/3 of the bands line up (Patrick Cleary)'s other band "THE DIGS" whom i could (and probably will) write a glowing profile of...Patrick and his lil lady Cheryl Lynn Caddic front this 4 piece (at the time) backed up by a man i will simply refer too as "THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK" (Scott) who happens to be probably the best musician i have ever seen in my life who was manning the bass that night but can probably play anything with strings or keys on it and jonny (forgive me i don't know his last name) on keys... they opened their set with a song called "OHIO"... a ballad with such a sweet sense of longing and loss it literally brought me to tears... for the life of me i cant remember the names of the rest of the tracks that they played... well, since it was the first time i had seen them play its not surprising i didn't know the rest of the names of the songs...anyways... their sound can only be described as csny meets the carpenters with a healthy dose of the kinks spackling it all together... simply put... this crew of musicians are the best L A has to offer even on their worst night they are better than every band in L A put together... when i was moving away from L A ... as the plane was taxiing to the runway i couldn't help but cry thinking i may never get to play a show with this gang of geniuses again... so do yourself a favor... and follow this link and cry yourself to sleep as you listen to perfection you could only hope to catch a glimpse of in yourself on your best day.

http://www.myspace.com/silverphial