[Portland, OR] This band was an upright bass, pedal guitar, electric guitar, drum, sometimes a tambourine, maybe one other person too. The drummer had a pearl snap button shirt on. A sunnier Replacements, americana, Traveling Wilburys. Some songs were more hyped up. “trying to maintain the good you saw in me” NiceButAlsoDangerous heard an REM cover, which was a great call. Google told me that one song was a cover of Linda Ronstadt’s “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.” Are all the songs covers? NiceButAlsoDangerous hated the woman’s voice and that she was reading the lyrics like karaoke. I was hating the guy’s voice but NiceButAlsoDangerous helped me realize that her voice was actually bad whereas his was *distinctive* (Bob Dylan? Michael Stipes of REM? Fred Schneider of B52s? The crowd (i.e., their family & friends’) applause was a reminder that the quality of art is a social construction 😊 To their credit, they started by telling us that "tens of you have streamed our new EP!” “This is our 2nd show!” The crowd was mixed but skewed older. To set the scene of this venue, one of the first I ever went to in Portland, the bartender was bedecked in a jumper, striped blousey shirt, dangly earrings, painted nails, tattooed knuckles, and he made nachos for us in a microwave behind the bar. Ooo, I bet their name is a riff off the John Denver song “Some Days are Diamonds.”
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