My friend who talked me into meeting him at the Red Line Tap to see Bicycle, Tricycle had cancel, but told me, “I don’t feel too bad about [not being able to make it] because you’re going to see a great show.” Spot-on analysis. They didn’t even deploy the signature Fender Rhodes that night, which was my primary motivation for going, and it was still a dynamite night of music.
Funny w/o being silly, catchy without pandering, Chicago band Bicycle, Tricycle has much to like about it, including that most important attribute: involuntary booty shakin’. The most recent album, Real as You Believe, is full of orchestral and psychedelic pop delicacies, and their forthcoming release Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry promises to heap on more of that good stuff. I can only assume that the tracks posted on their myspace indicate what is to come, and that, my friends, is a very good thing - look for it to be released in the coming months.
So along w/ advice about getting my shoddy Fender Rhodes fixed up for my band’s upcoming recording session, I also got 5 Questions out of the brains, looks and personality of the operation, Bohb. To wit:
1. When historians listen to your most recent CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
“And to think they needed ears for this back then!”
2. If you could play a show w/ any band/musician living or dead, whom would you pick and why?
INXS, cause if Michael Hutchence hadn’t masturbated himself to death I’d LOVE to find out his secrets to hair styling.
3. What is the strangest band-related dream you have had?
I walked through this dream, but it wasn’t a good one it seems, the faces all said goodbye while I was saying hello. And as wild as it seems, I was translating what frees, the culture from the crowd as the people allow. And what’s so sad about this dream, is that it’s the same thing you believe. It’s real as real is real, and I can tell that you’re pretty real and that’s just as well…
4. What do your fans look like?
We’re trying to find that out for you… all we have now is a crude surveillance video.
5. What bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think, “Man, this Bullshit again?”
Jason scoring w/ very odd girls, very on the odd…
Bonus Question: Why won’t you forget to tip your bartender?
Because my mind is like a steel trap. Made out of elephants.
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