Again, Terri has the main concert review and I am left with a couple of pot shots.

First, the best moment of the awful first band was when Terri turned to me and jokingly said of the lead singer, “I bet his mom’s here.” Shortly after, I think we indeed spotted her. The two guitarists had these huge integrated multi-pedal units. So I pointed out that his mom probably bought their fancy effects pedals, too. They definitely didn’t seem to have much memory of music earlier than Jet or the White Stripes.

And, yes, I have nothing snarky to say about Hail Social. Besides that I think they should have come up with a better name. They are just totally what you wouldn’t think would be my thing– I mean, they play electric guitars, for starters. But it’s solid, peppy, rockin’; they’re pretty tight, and consistently good without sounding canned. I agree that they’re totally underrated. If there were a fantasy stock market for rock bands, I would be buying lots of shares of Hail Social.

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