Search - Tia Carrera :: November Session

Answer the door, fool! It's the cops!

Longly | an uncertain future | 06/09/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

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It's like that night--you know, THAT NIGHT--that Tuesday night in north Austin in November when your power trio is rehearsing in the dining room of Paula & Miguel's house or actually, really, it's about 2:30 Wednesday morning and you're all drunk and out of your minds and into minute 45 of the trash thrash instrumental version of "Foxy Lady" and you're all trying to break on through to the other side and the air is all smoky like something out of _Apocalypse Now_ and you're building up to that big crescendo and all of a sudden Miguel jumps up from behind his drum kit and he's waving his arms and screaming NO! NO! NO! NO! at the top of his lungs and you know that you've made it, you're in the land of the monkey note, you know, that magical note that when you hit it these nerves in a bunch of ganglia behind your ear short out and kick into overdrive and you just start jumping around and there is no right there is no wrong ain't no right ain't no wrong like a monkey monkey monkey and you're bouncing your guitar on the floor as it's screaming and Gary the bass player who paints signs and banners by day is dry humping his black bass guitar against his speaker stack and it's like YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH and then . . .



And then . . .



And then you see the cop standing in the middle of the living room. The cop who is not happy. The cop who is sadly shaking his head looking at the three of you. The cop who is not amused. The cop who realized quickly y'all couldn't hear him banging on the door so he just came on in. The cop who has done this a million times in the past and wouldn't mind if he never had to do it again.



THAT cop.



He just looks at you and says, "Boys, this just isn't going to work."



This album by Tia Carerra could be that night. But it's better. These guys can PLAY. But, like you, no crappy singer to screw things up. It's a guitar, a bass, drums and by GAWD that's all these guys need. Buy it. Play it. Make your ears bleed to it. Now it can be that night any time of the day or night.



Take it brother, may it serve you well.

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