Three things contributed to me attending the Lucero concert tonight:
- I didn’t feel like sitting around the apartment alone.
- I wanted to get over to Lawrence and finally check it out.
- I knew they would cover Jawbreaker’s “Kiss the Bottle”
Honestly, it was a pretty sloppy concert. There were some highlights (”Kiss the Bottle” was definitely one of them), but they also had a lot of trouble with the sound levels. I’m not sure if its a good or bad thing that my favorite song they played was written by another band. After all, its not like I’ll ever get a chance to see Jawbreaker perform it themselves.
While we’re on the subject of Jawbreaker. Can we all just acknowledge that Jawbreaker and Lifetime are two of the most widely influential punk bands to come out of the 90’s? It’s a tragedy nobody knows who they are. Seriously, Jawbreaker gets covered by everyone from Jimmy Eat World to Dashboard Confessional, and the only song people might have heard is “Boxcar.” As for Lifetime, Saves the Day and Taking Back Sunday should literally be paying them royalties for the lyrics/style they borrowed from the band.
Anyway, back to the concert. I don’t think I had ever been to a southern rock concert before, so that was kind of interesting. I was honestly unsurprised to see the fat kid in a Leonard Skynard t-shirt standing next to me. It’s just that kind of music. The sing alongs during “I Can Get Us Out of Here” and “The War” were probably the highlights as far as their own music goes. Like I said, it was pretty sloppy at times, but that kind of goes with their style of music. They have guitar solos, but they also have muddled sound coming from all over the place. Unfortunately for them, after a while I feel like most of their songs start to sound the same.