The Red Bibles named themselves after the red-covered bibles in the pews at Church in Town, the Presbyterian parish which the family of guitarist Jan Ganglie attends.
A protester outside the Hamilton’s on Thursday night, brandishing an American flag, saw something more sinister in the band name. He railed against Communism, godlessness and rock & roll. Yes, that still happens.
“It’s really kind of a pun,” Ganglie says. “It’s like, read your bible.” He calls himself “not a heavy Christian scholar or anything. That’s my dad. But I do go to church and I do read the bible and I guess I find it weird when the only references to religion in mainstream music are, like, comical or negative.”
“We could have called the band The Red Textbooks, right? Would anyone have picketed us then?”
Sure. The accountancy students at the college on the hill.

Tonight: Cabbage Palmetto (solo acoustic, if you can imagine that) and CLAO at the Bullfinch, making noise… Smilodon, with vocalist Daph Naocyon, at Hamilton’s, doing covers, though they might be allowed some originals in the third set… An Evening With Struthiomimus and the Neocalamites at D’Ollaires. We’ll say that again: An Evening With Struthiomimus and the Neocalamites at D’Ollaires.