Since we picked up Ride after the show, I’m not entirely sure which tracks they played but I’m guessing the bulk of their performance included tracks from this, their latest release and first LP (I think its their debut anyway: according to their Bandcamp page they also have 2 EP’s). My favorite songs from Ride (and probably from their show) are “X-Ray,” “Everything Stops” (both heavy bass and beat-driven fuzzed out rockers), the slinky grooves of both “Soft as Gold” and “Fantasma” plus the hard tripping title track “Ride.”

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They played several of my top tracks from Monsters Eating People Eating (though really the entire record is fantastic) including the loud-quiet-loud shredding, bass-grooving “Reaper,” the epically killer psychedelic rocker “Where’s Your Reality?” and the ass-shaking “Simulator.” The shredding and psychedelia was courtesy of Dylan Sizemore and Josh Menashe, the ass-shaking was courtesy of bassist Nikki Pickle (I finally realized why she looked so familiar – she’s in Death Valley Girls!) and new drummer Nick Aguilar who used to drum for Mike Watt.

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Besides “I’m Not an Animal,”  Live in San Francisco features another favorite of mine from their 2011 release Seriousness: “Hurracan,” as well as the title track, “Seriousness.” Also included are songs from the 2013 Key To a False Door: “Garbage on Glue” and “Porto Alegre;” “Wexford Scramble” from the 2007 album Carmel; and “Young Carnival Waste” from 2014′s Breakfast of Failures.

Opening for The Blind Shake were Milwaukee bands Devils Teeth (who wore all-white outfits in the mode of Captain Stubing from “The Love Boat” – complete with cap!) and Gallery Night. Gallery Night were especially killer: their drummer, Kelsey Kaufman, is outta control amazing. I found a clip of their performance opening for Thee Oh Sees – check it out!

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“Don’t Give It Up Now” leads off the album with a perfect 60′s vibe, Side 2 overtly gives reference to the greats of garage, the Kinks, with a cover “Tired of Waiting” “Also by the Kinks, Lyres’ “Love Me Till the Sun Shines” is probably the track that most feels like it truly belongs in the summer of love rather than the summer of Reagan.

Wishing I would have made it out last night to see the band but at least I have the vinyl to enjoy (and I’m sure someone will post a recording of the show on You Tube or whatever).

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The Mistreaters “Grab Them Cakes” 2000. Big Neck Records.The first release from local Milwaukee power-grunge-punk-rock band. Very local: the guys still live in my neighborhood (hi Kevin and David!). Sooooo good and absolutely blistering live performances: we saw them play often at the Cactus Club – sadly I missed the show when the Mistreaters appeared with the White Stripes.

I interviewed the band for The Shepherd Express in 2000 when they told me the story behind recording this album. In order to capture the raw intensity of their live performances, they recorded “Grab Them Cakes” during a couple of afternoons in a friend’s living room (with the help of several cases of beer.)

The Mistreaters went on to release “Playa Hated to the Fullest” in 2003 on Estrus Records and a self-titled album in 2012 on Dusty Medical Records (guitarist Kevin Meyer’s label) after playing their last show at the Cactus Club in December 2011.

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