[ATTENDED: June 8, 2018] Street Stains
Street Stains are from Washington D.C. They are a duo consisting of guitar and drums.
Guitarist Chris Richards (who was in Q and Not U) plays a spare guitar and simple riffs. It amused me that he never really took his hood off as he shouted the lyrics.
Drummer Sean McGuinness (who also plays in Pissed Jeans) played some really complex fills and kept the simple songs from growing dull.
He had some things to say about parties in Washington D.C. and how they suck (I assume as an introduction to “The Party.”
I also enjoyed that they have a song called “Street Stains” and one called “Somewhere Over the Chemtrails.”
Their music on bandcamp sounds a little better than they did live (I don’t think the stage setup was kind to them). And here’s a pretty funny story about these songs.
In the summer of 2008, Chris took the bus from Brooklyn to Philadelphia every Thursday afternoon to jam with Sean and watch the Olympics. They wrote more than 30 songs.Then they forgot about them until January of 2013. Chris was now living in D.C., and Sean convinced Aaron to cart his Tascam-388 up to Philly for an afternoon of recording. Captured on tape for the ages, these songs were quickly abandoned once more — until the summer of 2014, when Chris finally recorded the words with Aaron back in D.C. Everybody forgot about the songs one more time before reconvening to mix them in the spring of 2015. And then — after another two years had vanished into oblivion — presto! “Street Stains” was released in January 2017 and can finally be forgotten forever.
For just a guitar and drums, they had a lot of interesting sounds and never overstayed their time.
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