The Days of Lore

This band could be your neighbor: part 2

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | musiX, pdX | 1 Comment

I think I saw one of them.

My girlfriend told me she had once seen two of them from a distance—a man and a woman—skinny, with long, wiry hair, sporting retro garb that one wouldn’t consider normal streetwear … even by Portland standards: “It looks like they’re from a completely different universe,” she explained.

I like them already.

The other night, we were walking back to our apartment right by a small pathway that runs along the back of the complex …

“There he is … ”

I looked down the path, and about 50 yards away was a skinny man, clad head to toe in denim with a long mop of stringy black hair. A plume of smoke dissipated to the left side of his dark coif. He looked like Tony Iommi, or maybe a young Jerry Garcia, or … Joey Ramone?! Is this guy a member of a stoner doom-metal group? A ’60s psychedelic jam band? A Ramones tribute band? No matter. I am hell-bent on finding out. This might, indeed, be the greatest rock band in Portland, or even the world … or one helluva tribute to The Ramones …

Tags: band, Jerry Garcia, Joey Ramone, rock 'n' roll, The Ramones, Tony Iommi