Tar Baby wrote:I like Tar.
I still like Tar and should've kept my original forum name.
It's difficult for me to post about bands I really enjoy in this online community because I tend to go overboard with hyperbole, praise, etc., so I reign myself in trying to keep sentences to a bare minimum; Tar is no exception.
I remember reading an Eleventh Dream Day interview with Doug McCombs years ago, (I believe it was in the
Chicago Tribune but can't be too sure), where the interviewer asked him what local bands he appreciated. He mentioned Tar and how they sounded something to the effect of a steamroller moving slowly across pavement, or something like that. That was more than enough for me to seek out their albums. Their sound was incredibly dense and massive, lots of fucking mass, but it was the drumming that killed me: Solid, focused, minimal, and dynamic. The drumming moved those songs along. Great riffs, but it was those tricky, almost impercetible rhythmic changes that blew my mind. You, or, I never really see
Clincher raved about, but I fucking love this ep. It doesn't get better than "Dean Martin." Well, it can and does, but hearing that song for the first time was like being punched by palsied metronome.
As for live performances the Pine Tar .406 show was incredible, and I fucking know for a fact that I saw them at the Cabaret Metro with Shonen Knife and some other band. I also think during this performance they covered "Monitor" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, but many of those shows back then tend to coalesce into one big mess of performances.
Someone fucking covered "Monitor."
Salut, Tar!