The Mal Thursday Quintet with special guests Tiger Bomb

375 Forest Avenue,Portland ME 04101

19 August, 2021

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The Mal Thursday Quintet with special guests Tiger Bomb ALL AGES The Mal Thursday Quintet Tiger Bomb The Mal Thursday Quintet with special guests Tiger Bomb Mal Thursday has been performing his own unique brand of rock n’ roll since the mid ’80s, when he fronted garage revivalists The Malarians and founded beloved indie label Chunk Records. The Malarians (not to be confused with the Spanish ska band of the same name) released two albums and an EP before disbanding in 1990, and played many memorable Portland shows, with The Brood, Lyres, et al. Then came Mal Thursday and the Cheetahs, who made one album, It’s All Going by Too Fast, in 1992, subsequently shelved until 2013, before the band spent the rest of the ‘90s playing the occasional live show with a revolving door lineup. In 2017, The Mal Thursday Quintet was formed, with Thursday espousing a model that merged the “Chuck Berry Method” with the outlaw biker gang, establishing three different “chapters” in New England, the Pacific Northwest, and Texas. On the Quintet’s debut album, If 6 Was 5, Mal Thursday is joined by the three chapters of his musical biker gang. The Texas chapter features drummer Hunt Sales (Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life,” Todd Rundgren’s “Runt,” and David Bowie’s uber-group Tin Machine, etc.), Grammy-winning Vox organ maestro and national treasure Augie Meyers (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, etc.), Dutch-born Austin guitarslinger Tjarko Jeen (Ronnie Dawson, Modern Don Juans, etc.), up-and-coming soul queen Tamara Mack, and Mal’s longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Bob Medley (a/k/a Robert Sherwood) on bass. Bob also shines in the New England crew, along with Frank Padellaro (King Radio, Scud Mountain Boys) on guitars and vocals, Brian T. Marchese (Aloha Steamtrain, The Figments) on drums, and guitarist Greg Saulmon (The Glad Machine). The Northwest chapter is better known as The Reverberations, the Portland, Oregon-based garage psych masters of the fuzz and jangle. The ’Verbs – Dave Berkham, Ian Bixby, Bob Fountain, John Jenne, and Cam Mazza – have released two full-length and several 45s. The Northwest crew appear on five of 11 tracks, providing the requisite fuzziness n’ buzziness for garage-heads on such tracks as the album-opener “I Gotta Be Me,” “Don’t Want You Either,” and the Cramps-style “Rotting,” originally done by Lonely Moans. The New England chapter shows the most range, from the Byrdsy “Joke’s on Me” to the horror rock of “Lady in Cage,” based on the 1964 film, to a faithful arrangement of Alan Price’s “O Lucky Man” that is straight outta 1972. The rhythm section of Medley and Marchese, Padellaro’s 12-string riffs, and the period-correct lead guitar stylings of Saulmon are stellar indeed. The all-star Texan chapter delivers the goods on “Hey Caffeina” and “Gilligans Wake,” with Sales’s authoritative drumming leading the way. Ms. Mack, of Austin rhythm & blues outfit Ms. Mack and the Daddies, provides powerful, soulful, and wailing counterpart on “Caffeina.” DL or stream album here: https://mailchi.mp/planetarygroup.com/gfa-email-mailchimp-rework-676750 More at the IF 6 WAS 5 EPK The Mal Thursday Quintet Tiger Bomb An all ages all inclusive music venue supporting the arts in their many forms.