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From: lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith)
Newsgroups: net.music.gdead
Subject: Re: KOKOMO !!
Message-ID: <534@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 14:37:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 14:37:15 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:17:18 EDT
Reply-To: lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith)
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In article <242@lzwi.UUCP> dsl@lzwi.UUCP (D.S.LERNER) writes:
>
> I saw KOKOMO two nights ago at the Metro in North Brunswick,
> N.J. They were very tight. Brent and Billy were great.
> . . etc.

I saw Kokomo two nights ago at The Paradise in Boston, and left quite early -
I thought they were lousy! Max Creek (they play "in the style of the Grateful
Dead") opened for them, and although they played only a short set, they were
excellent as usual. Their last song 'Situation' was great ! (I've seen them 
countless times and recommend them highly) Everyone was dancing and having a 
good time. Then Kokomo came on, and the dance floor thinned out . . . I suppose
they're competent enough musicians, but their songs were just standard hard rock
fare - with little to no originality and alot of LOUD guitar. The only selection
I heard that did not make me hold my ears was a standard bluesy number (a la 
'Little Red Rooster' but not as interesting) that failed to hold my attention 
due to its standard-ness, and certainly didn't make up for all the other noise 
we were subjected to. My friends and I thought that most of the deadhead crowd 
they had attracted with Max Creek and Mydland/Kreutzman would be disappointed 
with the type of music - have any of the rest of you seen them? What did you 
think? I thought they lacked all the blues/soul/country/spacey/etc. influences 
that make the Dead what they are, and lacked much else that makes a band worth
listening to.

> Dave Margen is a great bassist. He jammed on Dark Star so heavily that I 
> almost didn't recognize it was Dark Star. 

Hardly a recommendation . . .

> The Dead songs they played were mostly Brent tunes except
> for Casey Jones. Only, they didn't play them like the Dead
> plays them. Each song was played faster and more like the
> way Brent likes to play them. 

Maybe that was the problem !


Liz Smith

'Nothing left to do but SMILE SMILE SMILE'