MASTODON

PELICAN

Well, The Red Sparowes + PELICAN certainly delivered, last night was the perfect recipe for post rock chillin, and those 2 bands who were originally intended to headline the evening, ended up deferring that slot to MASTODON, who came in late at the last minute, because of Ozzfest having cancelled. That turned out to be a brilliant move, cuz MASTODON ain't got nuthin on either the Sparowes or Pelican.

Essentially, since Ozzfest was cancelled less than a week ago (and was to happen last night), they added Mastodon to the Pelican lineup. I was concerned about the ambience of the Red Sparowes + Pelican combo being disrupted by Mastodon's sound, but such worries were misplaced once it became evident that the 2 stateside post-rock acts were allowing Mastodon to headline, which really did organize the evenings sonic atmospherics into a much more manageable program.

We stayed to hear out Mastodon's first song, despite not wanting to disrupt the absolutely impeccable note which Pelican and the Sparowes left off with. Sure enough, it only took 1 song from Mastodon to start muddying up the otherwise lucid waters stirred up by the former two bands. We left as the 1st Mastodon song came to a clumsy, crashing, vocal-grating close, and our minds were still marveling over the impressions left by the other 2 bands.

I managed to score the last PELICAN poster, a beautiful work of art reminescent of old school posters worthy of framing.