March 15, 2009 Live at Rockit's Pizza

Riverbed & Distort

When We Might
Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned
Dust From 1000 Yrs
March 15, 2009
Rockit's Pizza
Bloomington, IN
Recorded by Ben Myers

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Chester gracefully opened up this show, and someone was on stage (used loosely) with him but whether it was Josh or Jimmy I don't recall. Either way the show sounds great, and it was of Atem's first shows to which he went as a child. I haven't been taking him to shows lately, but make sure to keep music a part of his life. If there were one which he could attend time-wise and enjoy sound pressure-wise then I'd love to take him out. Like...When We Might shows in the park in the afternoon.
This show ranks with another Dusty Rockit's show I failed to record: Fred & Susie with Ugh God. Sgt Dunbar wields marching band jazz with the style of one marching through New Orleans, salt crusted on their makeshift costumes...though I gotta say that singing saw is not exactly the best marching instrument. Regardless, this band will put an ass in your pants and a horn section in your hat or hair. Supposedly one of the main songwriters lived in Charles Mingus' house (after Mingus had moved) when he was a kid and when through his garbage pile. It certainly sounds like it. Atem had to be outside for this, but he heard it just fine I am certain.
This Dust performance is slightly odd, I believe because it was after David and Dust parted. At first I was typing "shortly after" but now I realize I'm mistaken. Still, Jimmy seemed to cover the sonic space where David used to be, but in his wispy, winged way. It takes a little drive out of the Dust when songs had a driving, throbbing bass line and lays you flat on your back in the summer, staring at clouds or stars. And now I realize what feels so odd and gives the added dream gleam: Matt is not there. No drums. The band is simply Ben and Jimmy. This is certainly a unique performance.