Dave Alvin show canceled!

[HeartachesNhangovers]

My wife and I were going to see Dave Alvin (founder-guitarist with his brother Phil Alvin of the California punk-roots band The Blasters) in a solo show in Portland OR tonight. Freezing rain had been forecast this evening as late as this morning, although the latest forecast seems to be for unfrozen rain tonight. Anyway, the venue canceled because of the weather. My wife is relieved although she's trying to act totally bummed because we'd have to drive over the I-5 bridge from here in Vancouver WA, and a lot of streets are still icy from this past week's snow. I guess since I'm a life-long Californian, she mistrusts my ice-driving skills. Hopefully Dave re-schedules. The Blasters themselves are playing Portland at the end of March, so I've got that to look forward to.

[Tikki]

1. That man is a miracle. Seen Dave and Dave and Phil and the Blasters many times.

Hope he does reschedule for you...but stay safe in the ice and snow.


...Someday it's gonna rain, someday it's gonna pour. Someday this old dry river, it well, won't be dry anymore.


Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

2. KnR for Dave Alvin...may he reschedule at your earliest convenience...

...when ice-driving skills aren't necessarily a factor.

Having been in L.A. for the last 41 years, I can relate.

Although, it has been pretty cold and rainy here lately.

[Codeine]

3. Just saw The Blasters a few nights ago in SoCal.

Not my bag, but a friend needed someone to go with. Decent show.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

6. I probably felt the same way when I first saw them.

That would have been at the Wagon Wheel Saloon in San Juan Capistrano in the mid-80s. Over the decades, I continued to love punk and rock, but also roots rock and honky-tonk country, and the Blasters represent that sweet spot between all those styles.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. The Blasters are sans Dave

It is Phil's band. And not nearly as good. . I'm a huge DABlastersPhil Alvin fan and have seen the Dave less Blasters a few times lately. Hell come back, the guy is a road dog.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

5. Yes, I've heard that Dave doesn't like to tour, but

he seems to be touring solo now. Maybe that's less of a hassle than touring with a bunch of guys and crew, or maybe he just likes doing his own thing instead of the Blasters songbook. The Phil-Blasters are still a show I wont pass up.

[ghostsinthemachine]

7. Dave's a road dog, many bands, configurations etc.....

The GUILTY ONES, The Guilty Women, the Knitters, he and Phil just did three years of joint projects (none The Blasters), the annual train show, and the solo project he is on now. Busy guy, I think The Blasters kind of ties him down musically. Every night playing the same songs, the same way,. All songs from 30 years ago, when you have moved way past that....Way back when he and the Blasters used to play in Sacramento at a teeny club. Now they play, Whatever Dave's band is then, every year at my friend's teeny club in Auburn. He brings it. His regular drummer, Lisa Pankratz is a monster player. The two of them hook right up. Love his history of music interludes in his show. Chris Gaffney.