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Big John Bates&Voodoo Dollz with Switchblade Valentine @Lucky Bar Jan 14th (W/Pics)
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| The Wolf User Info... | Amazing Show....Sleep Calls.... - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2:07am | ||
| rickylong User Info... | Big John Bates/Voo-Doo Dolls with Switchblade Valentine @ Lucky bar Jan 14 Humph.... Well it was a full house of greasey guys with tattoos.... scarey for an innocent bystander like myself. Still, Ben was serving beer and highballs in GLASSES.... yes GLASSES.... not plastic cups like at the punk rock shows he puts on.... so even though you tattooed greaseballs look mean they were all gentlemen and no glasses were thrown. An ugly swab of freshly URGE tattooed guys from Vancouver showed to support Mr Bates and maybe pick-up a few car parts from the WAY BACK GARAGE as well as pick-up a few of the local women. It was nice to chat with the owner of BEALE KUSTOMS in Vancouver..it's another fine place to get your old school auto restorations done. Whew... hows that for shameless advertising! The first band was The Switchblade Valoontines who are probably Victorias only greaser rock-a-billy band and they do a damb fine job. The drummer ripps and really looked like he was enjoying the music he was playing, the singer belted out the songs going from emotional to country to rockin... The stand-up bass player slapped it just fine but did anyone check his ID at the door? Its nice to see a Rock-a-billy band based in this town. The Big John Bates band came on stage and executed a Big John Bates style set of billy,surf,soft cell,ac/dc, toe tappin music. The Hugh Hefner ciggarette smokin drummer played the with a flat drum style that was quite unique to watch. The stand-up bass playin, good lookin lady was smiling the whole time... still more proof that if you like the music your playin "Smile". Then about the third song into the set the Voo-Doo Dolls came out and danced to Johns music... Hey did anyone ID these girls at the door. Anyway they were good at the TEASE and just when you thought you were goin to get a peep they left the stage. It was fun and all in all i had a good evening with good music. I recon it's safe to serve drinks in glasses at rock-a-billy shows when the music is good and the tattooed greasballs are wimps..... man am i ever gonna get it the next time i go to one of these shows -eh! RULE 62 bros.... ha ha ha - YOKO ONO - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 3:06am | ||
| Criss Crass User Info... | I think Ricky pretty much hit the nail on the head. Killer show. And the naked titties (actually attached to hot chicks not fatties) always a nice touch. Bravo - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:43pm | ||
| Sati User Info... | wow, that sounds really cool.. I've got to get out to something like that soon. I used to see stuff like that down south all the time cuz my friends were all tattooed greaseballs playing punk and rockabilly, ha! - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:49pm | ||
| Haden User Info... | I think Ricky said it all. 'Specially the IDing of the voodoo dolls. :P It was a sweet show. Other than the metal guy that started to complain to me non stop about hating the show, I had a blast. - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2:16pm | ||
| Jesse The Malcontent User Info... | Actually Ricky, funny about the comment on IDing the Switchblase bass player...he's the oldest guy in the group... I thought they were great, especially considering it was their second show as a band. John Bates was a lot better than I expected in contrast to their recorded stuff. I find a lot of rockabliily/psychobilly acts fall short when their sound is compressed onto a CD. - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 7:44pm | ||
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| The Wolf User Info... |  Oh well play on the bar to a PACKED HOUSE and get a round of Jagger for your Band Wooooot - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 8:07pm | ||
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| Jesse The Malcontent User Info... |  But that's probably just me. - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 8:54pm | ||
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| Peter User Info... | http://scenepages.com/imageland/15240.jpg he looks like Alec Baldwin - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 9:31pm | ||
| Lucky Bar User Info... | Thanks to everyone that came out. That was a great show. Ben. - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:06pm | ||
| PrincessP User Info... | So mad that I missed it. I had to catch the first ferry this morning. Please bring them back again. - Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:35pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Damn, I missed Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dolls?!? These guys rocked when then last played Victoria, I hope they were better when they played on Friday. Sigh, injuries SUCK! It was wierd, cause I thought I recognized the name, but thought it was some other band (that was silly of me). - Sun, 16 Jan 2005 9:28am | ||
| The Wolf User Info... | You would have loved it PrincessP it was a great time!... - Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:22pm | ||
| The Wolf User Info... | Tonight all Vancouver'ites at the Brickyard 21st - Fri, 21 Jan 2005 9:05pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Hey who the good looking lady in the blue alter-top that's in the last photo in this thread?!? - Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:15am | ||
| The Wolf User Info... | Griphin She is one of the Current Voodoo Dollz (Miss Risk?)I sent you an email with a few more shots of her :> Check out http://www.BigJohnBates.com "Dahlia Rose & Miss Risk" oh and John replied to my email..the AC/DC cover was Riff Raff - Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:21pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Strange, didn't recieved your E-Mail. She's from Big John Bates?!? Bummer. Actually I think I've chatted with her when I went to their last gig on April 8th of 2004. - Wed, 26 Jan 2005 9:17pm | ||
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