[ATTENDED: November 27, 2021] Sham
After The Scouts, Sham came out. Sham is the project of Shane Justice McCord. It was him and a bass player (I loved his bass guitar!) for this set.
The bass player started by playing bird calls on a small device while Shane played acoustic guitar.
The set was quiet and acoustic and perhaps a little atonal. Very experimental (in a video I took, you can barely hear the band from all the chatter, until a guy behind me says, “this band is so weird, this is the best.”
In no way were they the right band for this particular show–a rowdy New jersey crowd looking to rock. But aside from talking over the set, the crowd was at least respectful.
A few songs in, the bassist moved to drums and a new bassist came out and that added a little (very little) oomph to their set.
The biggest surprise came when near the end of the set Rob Grote from The Districts came out and sat in on a song with them. Rob proceeded to say how much he liked Shane and his music. That seemed to change the tune of the audience a bit who listened a bit more attentively to the final solo song.
It’s hard to have really gotten a feel for the set because the crowd was so noisy. It probably would have worked better in a coffee house. But I enjoyed the spirit of what they created.
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