There’s certainly been
no shortage of big, cool shows at Tubby’s lately. And for you heavy heads out
there, here’s a mid-week banger to wrap your brain around: a triple bill of
hard psychedelic rock featuring the Golden Grass, Sun Voyager, and Geezer on November
8.
New York outfit the
Golden Grass kicks out late-1960s-through-mid-1970s-inspired jams designed to get
boots a-stompin’ and bell bottoms a-flappin’. Their fourth and newest studio album,
the inarguably titled Life is Much Stranger, continues the hard-hollerin’, cowbell-fueled,
wah-wah-pedal-soaked party. Like if Grand Funk
Railroad, Vanilla Fudge, the James Gang, and their heavy friends all cut class at the same time to meet up in the smoking lounge.
Beaming out from
Orange County is Sun Voyager, who fuse early metal influences with krautrock-inspired stoner freakouts,
plenty of grooves, and loads of fuzz. The group’s most recent lysergic
release is their 2022 self-titled sophomore album, which the UK’s Classic
Rock magazine called “a relentless peaking production job that will most
assuredly mince your brain to paté.” Kingston’s own psychedelic warlords,
Geezer, now in their 10th year, are unwavering in their mission to deliver what
their founding guitarist and vocalist calls the “three pillars of Geezer: heavy, trippy, groovy.” The
name of their sixth full length, 2022’s Stoned Blues Machine, offers another
clue into the threesome’s M.O.
The Golden Grass, Sun Voyager, and Geezer will perform at
Tubby’s in Kingston on November 8 at 7pm. Tickets are $11.
This article appears in October 2023.
