Rock Gods #245: Adventures in Our Little Music Scene

That was a long party at Millie’s mom’s a few months back. In some minds, it’s still going on.
A lot of legendary things happened at the bash, including a six-hour jam session in which two guitarists featured prominently—“Pop” Bash of The Mental Place, and the industrious Frankenjoe of Danger on Vampire Trail. The axemen dueled for hours, antagonistically at first and then copacetically on a magical riff that seemed to arrive from nowhere.
Now the magic has dispersed. Pop and Frank each claim that the riff sprang out of their own fertile scalps. (Both men are bald.) The riff rift began when their respective bands debuted new songs at the annual holiday punk marathon in Santa’s basement, and a couple of tunes were suspiciously similar. Pop accused Frank of lifting his riff, and Frank accused right back.
No lawsuits yet—given the financial straits and mixed-up priorities of both TMP and DoVT, nobody’s got the cash to record for a while, and such disputes don’t get ugly until royalty payments rear up. But this a real grudge happening. Don’t expect a shared bill maybe ever again.

Shattered Helmet at the Bullfinch, with that guy who calls himself Lost Tunnel doing an acoustic opening set… The Disappearing Floor, apparently some sort of dance-party reference, plus Secret Warning at Hamilton’s… It’s a winter-gloomathon at D’ollaire’s with What Happened at Midnight, The Clue in the Embers and While the Clock Ticked…