(Photo-E.S. Day)Bison – Lamplighter
Sat. March 31, 2007
Vancouver, BC
Before I start – somebody (smart) please sign these dirty "Sons of Bisons". Let me be the first to make the animal jokes. Please. I have very little.
Deadly, dirty…ugly. Same rule applies to Vancouver’s Bison. The fine gents in Pride Tiger leaked the news in my interview from Feb. regarding Vancity’s next big thing. Big indeed, and hairy. Yes hairy. Like the moniker itself, this rare near extinct form of beast/musician has sliced off some of it’s own flesh and fed it to a rock-hungry crowd (not that kind junkie-boy) at the Lamplighter in Gassy Jacksville.
Bison. How dare these motherf**kers make Rock N’ Roll that fu**ing good , just who in hell do they think they are? The ferocity of Cro-Mags or Agnostic Front with the southern-fried feel of Alabama Thunderpussy or Sabbath circa Masters of Reality.
A thrashed out version of The Four Horsemen, that’s part S.T.R.E.E.T.S -all meat. The vocal dept. taken hostage by twin six string sludge-a-holics Dan & Gnarwell. as they engage in a standoff with bassist Masa Anzai (note – this man executed a seasoned, polished array of chops and with only 3 strings!Well done sir.) and drummer Brad McKinnon, who as far as I am concerned is the Canadian reincarnation of Mitch Mitchell after drinking a pint of Bonhams’ blood.
Fuck this! I can’t think straight, and two songs into the set, Gnarls "Bison" Barkley has dropped two hooks from the MySpace hit "War time" into my lower lip causing me to flip-flop upon the dock. Sounding a little like Brand New Sin’s " Motormeth" this quickly turns into a sweet, smoky scent of Kyuss or Fu Manchu.
As if Grizzly Adams went to the Angus Young school of A-minor assassination. Intense to say the least. Hard to believe this act is from Vancouver, we can’t believe we’re from Vancouver either.
What we need now is to stop worrying about the Olympics and focus on eating more -protein enriched rock’n roll from our fine friends at Bison. You "Herd" it here first folks, Bison will be stampeding into the Cobalt to trample & trod upon your eardrums April 21. w/Jaws & Fuck Off (the band that is. Then again…maybe I’m talking to you)
BISON: Sending Audiences Over Cliffs… Since Oct. 2006 (sorry guys)
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By E.S. Day
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