SSLYBY, The Skeletons and New Monsters Collective kept a full Outland Ballroom moving on Saturday night.
On the tail end of the release of their new album Let It Sway, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin teamed up with classic SGF rock band The Skeletons and the up-and-coming New Monsters Collective for a great night of music at the Outland Ballroom.
With a little duct tape for a broken bow New Monsters Collective revved the Ballroom engine as the crowd started to fill the room. The differences in instrumentation (moving cello and classical piano riffs) are refreshing. It’s always a high energy show with emotion oozing from Melissa the group’s “singing guitar monster”.
The Skeletons jammed the Andy’s Frozen Custard theme song, and joked with the much younger crowd, including some playful flirting which provoked a lot of laughter. But the bottom line is these guys still shred a couple decades after their “peak”. It was fun to see the kids with “M”-marked hands react to the sounds. If looked like they didn’t know what to expect, but ended up dancing their asses off. As SSLYBY guitarist and singer John Robert Caldwell told the crowd, “a lot of you don’t know that you just witnessed a piece of history.” If you missed this show, you might have to bide your time for the next one. They played their last free Monday show at the Outland after a summer chalked full of the weekly party.
SSLYBYs Phil Dickey (left) and John Robert Caldwell playing "In Pairs" at the Outland Ballroom.
SSLYBY played a good balance of songs from their trio of albums, though the bulk of the set showed from the new (becoming) highly acclaimed, Let It Sway. The Broom classics are slowly getting stacked on the shelf as it only appeared a couple times. Pangea and House Fire drew the usual explosive response, before they pulled out Anne Elephant for the encore. Back in the Saddle, In Pairs and the title track, Sink/Let It Sway led the way off the newest album which, as mentioned earlier, has great reviews pouring in.
TAGsgf.com music editor Chris DeRosier was among the first to review Let It Sway, but here’s what national writers have been saying (as compiled on the SSLYBY Facebook page):
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