polara Posted April 19, 2022 Posted April 19, 2022 https://smithsoldebar.freshtix.com/events/the-pack-ad?utm_campaign=Freshtix&utm_medium=Freshtix&utm_source=Freshtix The Pack A.D. / I Am a Rocketship (my band) Friday, April 22, 2022 — 8:00 pm Door Time: 7:00 pm Event Description Destruction and melody, acid wit and bruising vocals-this is the Pack A.D. Singer/guitarist Becky Black and drummer Maya Miller have made a sound so gigantic, so fierce and raw and empowering, that it's easy to forget there are just two people behind this brilliant, carefully constructed havoc. Shredding and pounding their way through every song, the Pack A.D. swallows you whole inside their fearless Franken-blend of heavy psychpop/garage-rock. Their lyrics are wild nests, human and complex: darkly funny disclosures about depression; indictments of digital excess; grief-stricken fire bombs; sly crusades against stupidity. https://www.thepackad.com I Am a Rocketship: As a bassist, guitarist, and singer, Eric Weissinger had opened for bands such as The Wedding Present, James, Cracker, and Portastatic. After playing on an Anne Richmond Boston album featuring Syd Straw, Marti Jones, Don Dixon, and Terry Adams, he took a break from music until a chance meeting with L E Kippner changed everything. A college radio DJ, choir member, cellist, and singer of Swedish synth-pop duo Neobox, her musical background could hardly have been more different than Eric's. Nonetheless, their shared love of Rammstein and Bob Dylan led them to form Hitchcock Blondes in Cleveland, Ohio. They then moved to Atlanta, creating I Am a Rocketship to free themselves from the restrictions of conventional bands. In 2016 the duo released an album, Mission Control, followed by 2019's Mind Grafitti. Ghost Stories, an 11-song album, was released in 2020, followed the same year by the 5-song oRAnGE. https://www.iamarocketship.com
polara Posted April 23, 2022 Author Posted April 23, 2022 That was fun. Our first proper indoors-on-a-weekend gig since Covid. The Pack A.D. were tight and aggressive, with the audience seeming to know every word of every song. Nice people, really polite and low-key. Becky had a thunderous guitar sound, having to cover the sonic territory of guitar and bass. Yamaha Revstar (the high end Japanese one) through a pretty big board, mostly using some huge fuzz, an OCD, and a POG, with a Hovercraft head and 4x12 for natural overdrive, and the POG's low end going into a Bassman and a 2x15. We didn't geek on gear much, mostly talking about sports injuries. People seemed to like us, got some nice comments, a lot of cheering, some folks saying they hoped we'd come back to Atlanta. I just thought, "Man, I drive by this place on my way to work."
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