By Artie Capshaw

Martin Gibson unveiled his wireless guitar at The Tailors reunion show (amusingly dubbed The Retailers) Thursday at the Bullfinch. As prophesied, being untethered made absolutely no difference in Gibson’s performance: he stood, he soloed quietly, he sang back-up, he smiled. The guitar did not have a chance to enjoy its freedom.

Martin had read our column predicting this very situation, but told us after the gig that “it just didn’t feel right” for him to move around the stage. So he’s allowed the peripatetic Eddie Rick to borrow the axe-pensive toy for the next RickNBacks gig, this Friday at Hamilton’s. Just call us Matchmaker Capshaw.

Baffled bear and Poppleton are also on the bill Friday at Hamilton’s; album release for both those acts, but the RickNBacks will be stealing their thunder all right… Same night, R&B masters Dark Dark Room rule Dollaire’s (see, we can be nice to them sometimes), with locals (or rather less-regionals) Henry & Mudge opening…