pearls & brass

i grew up playing in three-piece "power trios" inspahrd by the likes of cream, mountain -- on lawn guyland ca. '71, there musta been almost as many bands with a fat guy in a leather coat playing a les paul jr. a la leslie west, as there were around the metromess a decade or so ago with a skinny guy in a cowboy hat playing a weathered strat a la srv -- early jethro tull and blodwyn pig, even: the way blues-based, riff-oriented rawk usedta sound before the voxxx took a turn toward shrill and the sound morphed into metal. even after queens of the stone age made this kinda sludgy rifferama quasi-acceptable again a coupla yrs ago, it's still astonishing to me that there are bands in existence in 2006 that sound like pearls & brass, a buncha 20somethings from the weedgrown wilds o' nazareth, pennsylvania, who've been playing together for literally half their lives. i'm glad there are, tho. the schitt still sounds _badass_.