I am a bit of a tangent whore...so it should come as no surprise to those of you that know me... that just days after i posted a blog entry about silver phile... i am posting one about the brother band to them... the digs... i met Patrick from the digs a few weeks prior to the gig i played with silver phile... if i remember correctly (which i probably don't) it was at some other bands show at spaceland or somewhere like that... we had a lovely talk over some drinks and other things about how we were both mutual fans of each others bands... and about a week later we were playing our first gig together at mr. t's bowl... we (rocking horse people) played like shit that night from what i remember... but the digs fucking blew me away... for those of you that haven't seen them play Patrick and Norman Woods guitar weaving is amazing, kind of in the vein of the Byrd's meets Brian Jones and Keith Richards style circa 1966... i think that he got about two words out and ran back and cranked is one knob amp up just ripped into it so recklessly that i thought the fucking stage would collapse... i mean that in the best possible way... anyhoo... Patrick sings a majority of the songs but Norman sang one which i don't know the title of but i remember it had the vibe of "them changes" by the band of Gypsies era Hendrix stuff with buddy miles and billy cox... to sum up a show by them... think of sweethearts of the rodeo meets cant explain... seriously the most fun that can be had sitting watching another band blow your band apart right the fuck in front of you... if you are in L A and see a gig coming up with these fellas playing... go check them out and buy them a drink on me... send me the bill... here is a link to some of their tunes... may the road rise folks!
http://www.myspace.com/thedigsband
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