Saturday 09.12.09: VAUD AND THE VILLAINS @ echoplex

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Vaud & his ragtag band of villains are on the run from the long arm again. This time, they’ve landed just up river from the Creseent City. They come there to find Big Daddy’s…a speako disguised as a church. They are more at home in a dark, back room rollin’ dice and making music than in the schoolhouse or in the stockyards. They’re a bit on the wild side but they won’t hurt you none. The boys play with dynamite and the girls like to buck and bite. But you don’t have to worry. They like new folks. They got a reputation for being mean as a snake, and as sweet as an apple on Christmas day. They got scruples but they often misplace ‘em. They are everything your mama and papa warned you about and they are every bad thing that feels so good to do. If you got a secret, if you’re someone good who’s ever done something bad, if you got the man standing over you every day squeezin’ every ounce of spirit out of you…you have some villain in you. See what they do is they rock you 1930s style. They got a smokin’ hot horn section, leggy dames to match, rock steady rhythm, and soaring gospel harmonies. They are not your grandma’s depression era revival show, they are a big, bad, bawdy, good time band. They are gonna fill up the speako with music and spirit and noise…and you gonna bring the noise. And at the end of the night, when you are burning with the fever they’ve left you with…you’re gonna go out in the world and villainize it. You’re never gonna be the same.

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