I’m pretty sure I’ve lived past lives, mostly glamorous stuff like being a Pharaoh, Napoleon, the guy who tried to assassinate Hitler and Rodney Dangerfield, yes, the wheel of life is a truly miraculous thing.
It’s not an uncommon condition, the same is true for everyone, but not everyone has past lives as interesting and cool as mine, even though it’s true that I was never in Hot Snakes, nor Drive Like Jehu, but if I was or had of been, then I would most certainly be close to the end of my path, almost at enlightenment or some other such bollocks. Because they’re both insanely good bands and the guy who tried to assasinate Hitler, to the best of my knowledge, had no idea of what makes a good post punk band, him being too busy assassinating nazis to pay much attention to anything that Gang Of Four ever did.
I might not have ever been in Hot Snakes or Drive Like Jehu, but Rick Froberg and some of the guys from OBITS have, which means a few things. First, that they’ve wasted none of their time planning the deaths of mustachioed German sociopaths when they could be learning instruments. Second, that they’re coming from a very decent musical pedigree, Hot Snakes & Drive Like Jehu being widely regarded as being amongst the best guitar bands of the 90s-2000s, with Hot Snakes’ Audit In Progress being the greatest rock album ever recorded. Probably. At least it is on a Sunday morning when it’s on the car radio and you’re driving to the beach with the sun on your arm.
Here’s some tracks:
OBITS are coming here to Berlin, playing a gig at Lido in Kreuzberg, giving us the chance to hear a band, by virtue of slippery as hell guitar work, that will shortly make it to enlightenment. Seriously, if they got any more noodley and awesome they’d start sprouting lotus blossoms and glowing blue. While the rest of us were Rodney Dangerfield.
