[ATTENDED: February 10, 2017] Wolf!
Back in August I saw Marco Benevento open for The Claypool-Lennon Delirium. I didn’t know Marco, but his show was so much fun I promised myself I’d see him again. So I was pretty psyched to see that he was playing at this venue. WOLF! opened up. Technically the band was billed as WOLF! featuring Scott Metzger. This actually didn’t help me, because I didn’t know who he was either. The only other clue was that he was also in a band called Joe Russo’s Almost Dead (with Marco Benevento) who do mostly Grateful Dead covers.
I genuinely didn’t know what to expect from WOLF!, although I certainly had an idea of what they’d sound like from those bona-fides. But boy was I wrong.
Turns out that WOLF! plays pretty much all instrumentals. The songs are kind of surf guitar rock-ish, but not exactly. They are jam-band-ish, but not exactly (the songs are relatively short). And they all center around Metzger’s wonderful, melodic soloing. (more…)
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