The Brass, lead by Ernest Boetz, plays music
true to that old rock 'n' roll sound today and
Saturday at the Whippin' Post.
From the Augusta Chronicle-Music Section
Brass has a love for old rock
The Brass, lead by Ernest Boetz, plays music true to that old rock 'n' roll sound today and Saturday at the Whippin' Post. |
Band with blue jeans,
leather jackets, long hair prefers yesterday's music
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Their hair's long, but it's not pink,
blue or purple. They don't wear Doc Martens.
They're more black leather and blue jeans.
"It's unhip to do what we're doing right now," Mr.
Boetz says. "People are starved for it. It's an undying
style -it'll never go out, it'll never die. It's not a fad."
The Brass means money, it means guns, it means top executives.
It means power. The power of pure rock 'n' roll.
The bass and guitar are kinda harsh, kinda loud and filled with
static. It's the music you imagine parents telling their teens to
turn down. Or off.
"A lot of people call our music chauvanistic and
anti-feminist," he says.
"I don't care," he continued.
"We say things that other people are afraid to say."
It's about his pain. And it's all been sung before. Even Mr.
Boetz will admit it. The songs sound familiar. The Brass wants to
bring back "pure" rock 'n' roll, like that of
Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC.
"The wheel Chuck Berry invented rolls just fine. We're not
here trying to twist doors in some strange direction," he
says. "Every night when I get up and sing these songs, they
still get me. I don't walk through the lyrics."
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