Positive Force

Bigfoot may be a local phenomenon, but hard-driving psychobilly band Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys ain’t local; they’re from Providence, R.I. A national tour brings them to the Boiler Room Monday, July 23.

A triple bill Wednesday, July 25, at the Jambalaya begins with Clean Girl & Dirty Dishes (ex-Monster Women) then moves on to two Denver bands: sexy Stones-esque alt. rockers Machine Gun Blues and Ghost Buffalo , a band with former Planes Mistaken for Stars guitarist Matt Bellinger and his fiancé Marie Litton making music they describe on their MySpace as “other/other/other.”

I suspected there’d be trouble when I heard Amy from KHUM tell the crowd at Blues by the Bay there’d be no dancing in the area in front of the stage. There was. Apparently there were also strict rules about chair height, with yardsticks wielded for enforcement. (No, not on knuckles.) Those who grew tired of being corralled by caution tape fences eventually succumbed to the beat of Charlie Musselwhite’s band, rose up and broke through. Dave Hardy from the yellow-shirted security crew got the worst of it when Amy reversed her position without consulting the overseers. Poor Dave suffered a broken finger trying to hold back the tide of dancing Baby Boomers reliving their rebellious youth. I’m thinking this’ll be a hot topic at the next Redwood Coast Music Festivals board meeting. We’ll see what rules survive when BbtB rolls around next summer.

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