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Thursday, January 15, 2004 Kick Out the Jams
Dirty Babies at the Double Down, Jan. 10 The Las Vegas music scene has had its own garage rock movement in the last year, perhaps a year or so behind when the national music media decided to collectively crown the likes of the Vines and the Hives, thereby bestowing genre damnation upon all new bands with a dirty rock sound. But in our lazy music scene, this neo-garage movement has actually been a welcome and refreshing change. This is, after all, a city that has been bogged down with lifeless butt-rock for far too long. No need to name names. A dirty name is a prerequisite for this tight-knit, ass-kicking circle of bands: the Latest Flames, the Loud Pipes, the Pervz, the Black Jetts. But there are none dirtier than the Dirty Babies, who ripped through 35 minutes of roadhouse punk in front of an appreciative and entranced Double Down audience Saturday. Some were more entranced than others. One blond bag of bones chain-smoked and shook her skeletal hips nonstop through the set. Three big, bad amazon groupies sang the words to most songs and towered over singer/guitarist Jaime Lamb as he three-chorded and screamed his way through songs about drugs, sex and drugs. Maybe it was CES weekend and maybe all the porn stars were at the Palms, but it was pretty dirty in the old Double Down. Guitarist Kei Hatano had plenty of space for some speedy notes on crowd favorites "Up All Night," "Bitch Reaction" and "You're Gonna Miss Me," and a new bassist, identified as the younger brother of a former band member, led the way through a churning Dictators cover. The amazons liked that one, too. Beers were spilled, microphone stands were knocked over and guitar strings were snapped; it was all over too fast. Out-of-towners Sloka and Hall 13 were on next, but no one seemed to care much. It takes only a few short, loud blasts of blues-punk dominance to see that the Dirty Babies deserve bold type in the pantheon of Las Vegas garage rock.--Brock Radke |
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