DOUG WIMBISH'S 2ND ANNUAL WIM-BASH
At Sully's Pub - Hartford, CT (8/5/06)
I arrived at the WIMBASH party at 8:45pmÖfirst
off, this was a special event as it was Little Axeís (Skip McDonald) birthday.
HUMP with Doug Wimbish (left), the 13-year-old guitar virtuoso (in the green
dress) and Nova Wimbish (7-year-old girl, 2nd from right)!
I
saw a local act called HUMP, a four-girl folk band that included a guitarist,
bassist and percussionistÖall the girls are singers and the performance
included a performance by two additional people, a little 7-year-old girl named
Nova Wimbish (Dougís daughter) and a 13-year-old female guitar virtuoso. The
set was over around 9:05pm.
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Jamie Brennan on vocals!
At
10:30pm, it was time to check a funk-rock artist named Jamie Brennan. The first
song ìAfter Youî was a little taste of Jimi Hendrix-style stuff, with some
heavy bass playing & red-hot Hendrix guitar blazing! ìRock ëní Roll Chickî
was a funk groove with the band jumping in hard rock mode twice during the
song. ìCalifornia Dayî was good, but ìAre You Lonelyî was another nasty rock
tune where the drummer went totally off on his solo! ìNow Youíre in My Heartî
was followed by the mellower ìYoung & Beautifulî, which featured a lead guitar
solo by Jamie Brennan himself. The Jamie Brennan set was over at 11:00pm.
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Brennan
Kitty
Kitty Bang Bang came out at 11:25pm and did a 20-minute set of some good rock
music. At this time, I cannot recall anything substantially great about this
band, but the song set list was ìPolishî, ìBoredî, ìSpecial Interestî,
ìAppetite for Loveî, ìDown the Drainî and ìI Hope Youíre Realî.
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of Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
Doug Wimbish in his psychotic, out-of-space bass romping!
Doug
Wimbish came out with Wil Calhoun around 12:00 midnight, a keyboardist and a
guitarist to perform a 20 minute setÖit was a long jam that featured some of
Dougís nasty psychotic, mind-bending bass riffs (sometimes some hardcore
slap-bass, sometimes more lead guitar-sounding, sometimes more like Bernie
Worrellís insane WOO sounds). Match that with Wilís powerful drumming and some
deliciously wild lead guitaring and you have a serious funk-rock jammingÖand
letís not forget the few moments of some good organ playing!!
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Wimbish & friends
Lead-axe Jean-Marx Santel with the rocking vocals of Rozz Nash!!
Red
Lotus came out at 12:40am and performed five songs, most of them were some
straight-up intoxicating funk-rock stuff, like the first song. ìSuperwomanî was
straight up hardcore rock with the powerhouse vocals of Rozz Nash, lead guitar
fire of Jean-Marx Santel, good bass riffs of Aalics Bronson, and moments of
powerhouse, banging drumming by Gavin Glenn!! ìRunningî was almost equally
powerful. ìFirecrackerî was slightly more mellow, but still had a rock edge to
it. Their set was over around 1:10am.
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Little Axe himself, Skip McDonald!
Around
1:25am, Tackhead (featuring Little Axe himself Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish and
Keith LeBlanc) came out and performed the Jungle Funk song ìTranceî, an
experience to be seen and heard with the mind-bending bass riffing of Doug,
some standout guitar effects by Little Axe and solid drumming by Keith! The
real kick to this performance was the inclusion of three horn players
(trombone, trumpet and saxophone)!! After another song, the band went into
Sugar Hill territory with the Sugar Hill Gang sang ìRapperís Delightî
(featuring the music of none other than Chicís ìGood Timesî)Öthere were three
white rappers onstage during the old-school hip-hop stuff. Unfortunately, the
fun had to end around 2:00am. The biggest complaint about this set was that
they should have played more of the Little Axe/Tackhead stuff.
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