gallery night, ph7

i was "clopening" at the market friday / sat'day, so i missed out on pussyhouse propaganda's friday night show at the rahr brewery, but after an early-evening nap, my sweetie 'n' i made it to their sat'day night shindig at the new gallery 817 location on bluebonnet circle, a happenin' li'l area that could become the fort's equivalent to montrose down in h-town if there were more dudes there sporting the rev. billy gibbons beard.

afterward, my sweetie dropped me off downtown at the flying saucer, so i could swill some four-dollar suds with fellow americans mastermind matt hickey and catch pablo & the hemphill 7 doing what they do best (even tho the yups were loth to take up pablo frontguy joe vano on his invitation to dance). since i was opening the market this morning, i only got to hear one of the new songs they've added to their set of late, but they played with great energy and a totally new dynamic that seems to operate off the chemistry between low-end theorist extraordinaire matt hembree and his bandmates from goodwin (that'd be his riddim section mate damien "sticky d" stewart) and bindle (axe wizard steffin "razor" ratliff and keybman / second lead vocalist justin pate), songs pablo has been playing for five years like "freedom" and "smoke two joints" sound brand new. good to hear, too, that joe vano can still roar like peter tosh. fave moment of the evening: one in which joe and matt were both bouncing in time with the music, altho they were both so into their own personal thangs that they weren't even aware of it. unpremeditated joy wears the white stetson. makes me wish i'd been able to make it to their magnolia park throwdown the previous evening. they're at embargo downtown on september 26th, then soundclash 2007 has been confirmed for november 24th at 6th street live (which might or might not have morphed into lola's by that time).