• EXAMINER // show review 2
by theStarM posted Apr 26th 2012 at 6:18pm
MILES MOSLEY & THE WEST COAST GET DOWN
ON THE BORDER OF CHAOS!
Hollywood City Guide Examiner
March 29, 2012
Although there has never been another band quite like Miles Mosley and the West Coast Get Down, when Hunter S. Thompson said “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio,” He must have had something similar in mind.
The beat hit steady, the kind of magic that whips rabid dogs into a rhythmic order, Ryan “Papa” Porter blowing hard on his golden trombone, Miles Mosley and the west coast get down had us feeling loose.
The whiskey pulsed through unsuspecting veins as a cloud of smoke hung heavy over the most authentic smoking alley in Hollywood.
Tonight, at The Piano Bar anyone who was there (maybe 200 or so) witnessed something epic, something mystic, more than my poor pen can describe.
Tony “Two Guns” Austin pounded the drums with an on the border of chaos energy that begged not to stop. Woody “Wood” Aplanalp slapped the guitar with a sexual rhythm touching the edge of madness and Miles Mosley bellowed, sang, and rapped somewhere between mourn, scorn, and bliss. At the end of the night we left wanting more but knowing we couldn’t take it.
If you can see only one underground band this year, make it Miles Mosley and the West Coast Get Down. They won’t be underground for long and you’ll surely want to tell your grandchildren you saw them when they were.
Miles Mosley will drive you wild!
