event Father Phoenix
Also Playing: Cougar Den and Cloud Mouth
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Sat Aug 29
10 pm,
Father Phoenix, Cougar Den, and Cloud Mouth at Cactus Club
Milwaukee hard-rockers Father Phoenix appear to have one goal in life, and that is to be Deep Purple. While the band fails at pulling off a complete metamorphosis into Ritchie Blackmore and co., it sure does sound like a bunch of Jägermeister-swilling troglodytes bashing out bluesy, megaton riffs on the new Large Bodies EP, which is celebrated with this show. On the title tack, Father Phoenix sounds a bit like a drunker Wolfmother, chanting something about a “sleepy vagina”—we might be hearing that lyric wrong—over some kick-ass organ fills. Anybody else need a beer? Also playing: Mother Orchis, Vampire Hands.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee hard-rockers Father Phoenix appear to have one goal in life, and that is to be Deep Purple. While the band fails at pulling off a complete metamorphosis into Ritchie Blackmore and co., it sure does sound like a bunch of Jägermeister-swilling troglodytes bashing out bluesy, megaton riffs on the new Large Bodies EP, which is celebrated with this show. On the title tack, Father Phoenix sounds a bit like a drunker Wolfmother, chanting something about a “sleepy vagina”—we might be hearing that lyric wrong—over some kick-ass organ fills. Anybody else need a beer? Also playing: Mother Orchis, Vampire Hands.
Updated 11/03/2009
