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Alpha Rev at Antone’s
Am I going to become one of those annoying fans who insists that every live set from a particularly favored artist sound like the Platonic Ideal of my youth?
Set aside the obvious fact that my youth has long since passed. (In fact, one polite young man at Antone’s late Saturday asked, in essence, why an decrepit guy like me would show up for an Alpha Rev concert. He was reallypolite. As was everyone else I talked to before and after the midnight set.)
Katie Ferguson, Tyler Guthrie
Back to that Platonic Ideal. Saturday’s playlist — with a few additions — was exactly what I want to hear 20 or 30 years from now, no matter how many dozens of orchestral pop albums Alpha Rev releases.
Brian Chavez, Henna Bixler
That will not please Casey McPherson and crew. They are artists, after all. Like Joni Mitchell, they won’t want to paint “Starry, Starry Night” over and over, metaphorically.
Did not give their real names. Grow up.
Maybe they can include some of these songs — first recorded live more than a year ago and soon to be released on a national label with improved orchestrations — in their inevitable encores when they play arenas and such. And when somebody films their concerts in 3-D.
Brandon Gibbs, Rachael Gibbs
I’m getting ahead of Alpha Rev’s ascent. Roomier Stubb’s next. The wall-to-wall crowd at Antone’s predicts it.
Bryan Lambert, Emily Krol
BTW, I saw that Rare magazine picked the Rev as Rarest Austin band. Rare is way ahead of some scribes in the press scrum.
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