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...lines were long, but that nifty fluorescent laminent they gave me let me waltz into any club that seized my fancy. And when some unfriendly patron began to mosh during one of the concerts, I got him thrown out. Who says Crime doesn...
...course, the real fun at any grunge show is the mosh pit. Halfway through "Uncle Anesthesia," one fan forgot the Golden Rule of Stage Diving and jumped for a less-populated area. The sound of his head meeting the ground was audible over the music, but he jumped right back up, empowered by the music and the scene. To what higher praise could the Screaming Trees aspire...
Boston has plenty of bands with this vision, but Buffalo Tom, who appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
Buffalo Tom's music, for those who haven't heard their college-rock hit "Velvet Roof," is meat and potatoes for the mosh-starved. You'll think that you might have heard their music before, and you probably have--they sound like blisteringly-loud late Replacements, filled out with plenty of requisite feedback. There isn't much new about Buffalo Tom, but their grasp of what's old makes for nothing less than perfect grunge...
...bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh...