[DID NOT ATTEND: March 10 & March 11, 2023] Marco Benevento / Mike Dillon’s Punkadelic ft Nikki Glaspie & Brian Haas
I saw Marco Benevento at Ardmore Music Hall about a year ago.
His shows are so much fun. He’s a fantastic performer and his band is terrific.
The fact that he was playing two venues within easy driving distance of me seems like a no-brainer in terms of me going to see him. And yet, I felt that I needed a week without shows since i have a bunch coming up.
Sorry Marco. I still love you.
Marco’s opening acts are pretty diverse–Marco himself is all over the place with the kind of music he plays too. For these shows it was Mike Dillon’s Punkadelic ft Nikki Glaspie & Brian Haas.
This mouthful was described as
How many artists have been praised a “punk rock provocateur,” “jazz vibraphone visionary,” and “percussion virtuoso” in the same sentence? There’s only one: Mike Dillon. Mike Dillon has spent the last three decades performing well over 200 shows a year with both his own band, as well as playing vibraphone and percussion with artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Les Claypool and Ani DiFranco.
So when the pandemic hit in early 2020 forcing Dillon off the road, he instinctively directed his perpetually restless creative energy to writing and recording. Recently relocating to Kansas City [he] would track a trilogy of albums: ‘Shoot The Moon,’ ‘Suitcase Man’ and ‘1918.’
The first of the three records, ‘Shoot The Moon,’ is a ten track collection that Dillon describes as “Punkadelic-Funk-Psych” focused heavily on the current political climate in the United States. Assembling an assortment of stylistically uncompromising musicians to contribute, its line-up features Matt Chamberlain, Steven Bernstein, Nicholas Payton, Robbie Seahag Mangano, Jean-Paul Gaster and Nick Bockrath among others. Highlights include the apocalyptic road warrior anthem “Drivin’ Down The Road,” a swirling New Orleans jazz-raga “Further Adventures in Misadventures” and the snarling punk rock diatribe “Quool Aid Man” with its indictment of the American right: “old men and their guns.”
This performance includes Brian Hass (Matt Chamberlain & Brian Haas / Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey / Tephra Sound / Nolatet) & Nikki Glaspie (Beyoncé / The Nth Power / Maceo Parker).
It sounded like it might be a bit too jazz for my tastes, so I didn’t mind missing this one.
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