Colossal Yes
with Cuchillo, and Magic Mirror
- When
- Thu Oct 16, 2008
- Where
- Hemlock Tavern
- Time
- 9pm
- Cost
- $6
- Tags
- Music, Rock
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Description
"Colossal Yes has existed in Kushner's mind for years, heard only by a few close friends on home demos or at one of a handful of solo shows. Far from their humble beginnings, these simple piano chords and melodies have morphed and developed over the years, reaching maximum clarity on the debut album Acapulco Roughs. The risks are obvious, but the payoff is ever greater. In fact, the two elements that should damn Colossal Yes to lite-rock purgatory- unabashed sincerity and piano playing- miraculously works to the band's advantage. Somehow, when untainted musicianship meets earnest presentation something happens, and the results are damn good. Maybe it's just the joy of creation. If you haven't guessed yet, this is the '70s. The idealized, mythological '70s, where you're not sick of great songs because play-it-to-death AOR stations haven't been invented. The true essence of rock, stripped to its essentials by virtue of its vainglorious indulgences, existing forever as the absolute articulation of the form. Colossal Yes is the greatest affirmation of them all, bigger than big, and there's no joke behind the smiling."- myspace
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