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nt with a superbly rendered survival from 1981 and heads bop to the hook all the way to the decisively finalizing crash ride crash of david s well timed percussives then to a revival of jinx dawson horns sported affectionately by the audience gracie gets on the riser to stand up and shout something palpably prismatic and come the solo the guitarist a stewart carries on in the full campbell string twisting and pointy note tradition the guitarist making vivid applications to his piece while dino effectively surrogates in the violin sound though i could clearly see every twist and turn of jacob s fingers the leads were often a little muffled the guitar having been too frequently mixed out to favor the keys skipping up to the next song the band jumps to van halen s number one the bassist projecting powerfully as always the drummer nailing all his parts as a synth centric song from his swivel sound set keysman dino not only carries the piece but brings it home having delivered herself of her lines gracie hops off the riser but not as far as the scene that inspired the song heh unwearied proffering a rock relic with chorused vocal entry the band carries on with a glimpse from the midwest late 1975 in which these five take on the role of six and no surprise they re fully capable dino slots in the organ to perfection and while i never argue with a keyboard drum call and response as this song features multiple times i nonetheless wish the guitar part was a little more audible in the mix since this tracks arguable highlights are those so very aculeate solos nonetheless this live performance grins so there s your prog amidst all the other more standard radio rock but the 70s was the glorious decade of a prog norm with the keys guitar call and response bringing that out even more and jacob kerrys on leaving out none of livgren s many and worthy guitar solos making them his own counting down to their finale mask does a first rate performance perhaps a little faster than the hit with a great keys and guitar blended bridge amidst which jacob smoothly whips off a guitar solo of definitive finality and david the man on the sticks takes it out for all the numbers they used up in their twelfth song they still have one left and it s a big five minute and fifty five second encore of absolute rock royalty crowned by being the only hit in top 40 history to repeat none of its parts now how mercurial is that categorically opening the piece dino lets his piano flow then a short glissando down and the singer enters with the line now i ve gone and thrown it all away in her guttural best as per freddie and one by one the rest of the band joins together on the riser while their majesties may mercury deacon and taylor finish the middle of the song s multi tracks from the overhead then mask takes over and bursts into heavy worthily piling on the ponderous for the last part of the operatic behemoth that leaves one rapt amidst the rock and roll wrack of collateral jammage _____ from a young band in the 13 15 age range this was mid 2017 you get far more for your beer than could reasonably be expected from a momentary fumble or two they recover directly and no matter mask when all is said and done is a tighter more practiced outfit at the end of the day than a large number of bands on the indy circuit many too casual to earn more than faint and half hearted claps and when you re doing covers you can t hide it if you haven t got it mask has nothing they need hide and with such talent on offer i submit they should annex zep n lep to their rep add to which gracie has the voice to sing the likes of sass jordan high road easy janis joplin darby mills headpins jenny haan babe ruth lee aaron doro pesch pat benatar brian johnson tony martin black sabbath and maybe even jorn lande beyond twilight i credit the five of them for not repeating any songs as every adult two set bands i ve ever seen do some worse yet even tripling and that s lame if you re the fan that sits in for an entire show so extra thumbs up kudos to mask for treating us to a double album worth of all different songs their next audience should throw chocolate at them because underwear is so last year and tennis shoes are still uncool in summary whether the band s setlist taken together might have ever been considered an oeuvre unto itself is neither here nor there mask in a consonant handling of their varied selection makes it as one were they to ever pen originals i d anticipate good things from their artistry and more the hard working personnel brendan trillo soundman and roadie david chrisman drums dino mccord keyboards gracie cann vocals jacob stewart guitar natalie chrisman bass many of the band members doubled as in part noted the set list sammy hagar there s only one way to rock van hagar dreams whitesnake here i go again journey don t stop believin stevie wonder superstition foreigner juke box hero joan jett i love rock and roll bon jovi runaway michael jackson beat it intermission journey separate ways band introductions motley crue home sweet home tommy tutone 867 5309 journey lights solo piano survivor eye of the tiger dio rainbow in the dark van halen jump kansas carry on wayward son europe final countdown encore queen bohemian rhapsody that s 19 songs for the price of a beer or three there isn t a better deal https www facebook com thebandmask https www yolobrew com forrest l woods may be reprinted in full with attribution posted by the stygian heresy in concert review reply concert review jessica malone with giorgi khokhobashvili june 6 2018 cante ao vinho 5250 front street rocklin cal 95677 friday may 18 2018 with a smile bangs hanging attractively over her eyes and guitar in hand jessica and accompanist giorgi violin both happily playing acoustic ease into the gentle lilt of gold flowers of the west rock wall appropriate to this quarry town as fitting backdrop a mystery of the wine bar s interior configurations balancing the harmonics to fine effect the song casually fading in the middle over rhythm guitar is a brand new one inspired by how much jessica misses california when she s away a line from which my voice was meant for singing accurately sets the tone for the performance it is she was another new one lonesome in montana written for her mom shows her strong vocal midrange the evening s drink of choice vinho doce dessert wine a white port at a reasonable 8 is confidently well fettled itself and so good i couldn t put it down even made it seem there was an extra verse to the song giorgi whips off a short solo sharp and melodically mindful and just at the upper bound of ideally loud the people at the soundboard have everything dialed dreamily languorous arpeggios alternating with complementary single notes open their third number an exceptional piece of wistful melancholia that jessica s recorded twice in two effectively differentiable mixes the song proceeds as many of hers do like a laid back summer day out in the country and later during the bridge giorgi fills the role a drummer handles in some of their live shows with his right hand he taps his bow on the violin s body and with his left gives the upper neck a four fingered tap all in a timed tandem i d always heard it was a versatile instrument she tilts her guitar calling thus to the muses of the backcountry highways and follows through with a decisive chord bringing in giorgi s violin solo of poetically aerial tones harvested from the steinhardt strata and he finishes off a fine line with a tranquil downbow strong guitar chords begin the uptempo of the next number as the violin seconds her into a song closely akin to the beatles i ve just seen a face and if more than a ringer it s worth noting that mccartney the songwriter felt it rather country western making its rendition here that much closer to a match fitting too the performer s repertoire of well disposed songs romantic introspections of life that have all the appealing relevance that artists posturing dated credos do not imperative chords building to further solidity soon adds the violin into another new song there s a total assuredness and certainty in her playing and this she accentuates expressively joyously while giorgi in one of many stringed idioms slots in an early short solo summer weather is my favorite of the set so far a minor keyed folk blaster with a muted violin wah wah solo and if your eyes wander to the floor as eyes that are well wined might you ll see a bank of at least six pedals in front of said musician or more there were a lot a weaving violin solo over downplayed guitar ends the number next up is angel of montgomery a prine classic burnished to lustrousness i can forgive the annoyance of an occasional cover when it s a track heard so infrequently and more that the performer plays it deftly into their performance as she does here and to even better effect being from the viewpoint a woman s for which it was written meanwhile giorgi takes a polite background to jessica s voice the latter of whom fittingly hits the guttural on key words as cowboy a fiddly violin solo appears late in as three more people arrive give attentive ear and no one leaves picking up a ukulele for the next song and striking some crisp strings jessica leaves just enough room for the violin to easily glide into wake up with the sun the track that opens her second cd release her expressiveness adds to her art wraps the audient in the song s presence the duo now playing to a reasonably full house all but one table occupied facing giorgi during an extended violin solo she s on it with her ukelele matches him and calls it another in a succession of songs well pedigreed from the hinterland of country folk before their eighth jessica relates her earlier life in northern cal with her dad as roadie a good tale high treble uke chords sharp even staccato open best love a slow and methodic piece working into a passage of lone ukulele the violin subtilized into a faraway background until we hit the anthemic chorus the centerpiece of whose yarn she spins out as i m blazing trails with my baby some people might think we re crazy when the lyric calls for it her voice is once again throaty and she employs it to optimal effect a violin solo rounds it out the whole song characterized by well spaced four stringed chords sharp and in full color contrast wrapping up their first set if i had a quibble from the show and it d be the only one it s that the chorus is a tad repetitive could perhaps use an added couplet of rhymes to spur the intrigue but it could also well be said that the song s very particularity of character compensates a break followed and as i resistantly fixed to make my unwished for departure it appeared that of the audience at least half were staying for the second part of the performance to this she warmed up with what i think i may safely say is in typical jessica fashion galloping confidently into the piece minor key in hand opening the door to a winning progression of scales on this second set opener singing this love s on fire and whether a cover or original my quest for its provenance finds ingress barred but no matter it s a kickin tune giorgi returning to take his place on stage for an obliquely darksome tune of a positively rocked americana a gentle hum remained with me for hours afterward the wafture from that stemmed glass the rapture of jessica s songs looking at the numbers on her event page for the night either everyone showed up or found replacements to save face a rarity for most performances where interested somehow equates to going call it a higher quality following all but one person in the venue were wrapt or otherwise attentive during the show looking for more to follow up on my post concert exposure from her web repertory she offers at least one tune i d denote pure country which i credit with the twang of steel i d misremembered as i found when returning to the song several days later and easily a few that favor the folk idiom but in the main the body of her work strikes me as roping in both of these the live experience then amplifying them into a rock and rolled lark easily defining a genre if only a few thousand know it so far jessica s spirited command of her instruments including especially her measured voice bright and articulately projected sees her casually flinging her songs out so that you receive with smiles the joie de vivre her words imply the old west mule paced lilt of select phrasing on the ukulele pulls you right into her world of a happy past and this she passes on to those present she s published two studio cds see jessicamalonemusic com all of whose tunes you can spot in addition to some others on soundcloud and youtube even the high art folk of joni s strings guitar and piano were never this emphatically unambiguous and her recordings not only set the standard but the bar for well defined notation from 68 75 over and above the adjectivally speaking less accentuate judy judee judith julie jackie janis joan and oh wait jolene was a song these by way of epochal instance i tend to think that if jessica s catalog took a trip on the wayback machine it d find itself as a reasonably apt companion piece to cheryl dilcher s special songs 1970 jessica s estimable recorded body of music reflects much of what i ve cited here but it s the live experience i ll say it again that is conspicuously that much more riveting the contrasts shadings and dynamism of every chord paired with and against every individual note and more remarkably if possible the smooth quality and control of her softly resonant voice mistily opaque expressing a wider dynamic range far beyond the scope of what others of her stamp plying her genre or any other are generally capable of that said with no exaggeration timbrally the twanged accent requisite of country singers is absent barring a lone syllable or two unexpectedly an occasional bluesy edge to her voice erupts often melding into a dash of the sultry then held just in check it s the way she flings it out from edged kinetics with swing to the pastorale and no pretensions she lets her hair down and keeps it there artful songs of the heart seen through a window on the west old and new of languid evenings under the empyrean when the heart pines for the wide open spaces and skies music of the open roads and dusty footloose and freeborn she alloys the not inconsonant remembrance of faraway melancholy and secret triumph within her sound which at the end of the day is ever optimistic the cheer of a pot of gold at the end of each painted number the heart solitary and otherwise always overcomes songs of patient longings straddling the wistful and the pensive her voice ranges wide and into the warp and weft of her material there s even a piece of medieval literary history that fits satin glovelike into the theme of her work singing too of leisure days in the country and hearts fraught but sanguine these 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