King Khan & The Shrines
Mish and I went to see King Khan & The Shrines last night at the Red Room on Richard’s. King Khan is formerly of the Spaceshits from Montreal. Yes, the same Spaceshits that Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) used to play in before Les Sexareenos.
As you might expect, King Khan’s apple doesn’t fall from the Spaceshits/Sexareenos tree. His schtick is a bit of a sloppy James Brown-meets-garage-rawk-party type thing. Fronting the Shrines, a 7-piece band and go-go dancer, King Khan is the master of ceremonies who occasionally sports a guitar but mostly just sings and mingles with the crowd.
Not a bad show but the whole thing kind of fell flat. The place was packed and by the time King Khan hit the stage everybody was fully juiced up to get their collective rocks off but it didn’t seem like ol’ Blacksnake was giving the expected 110%. Definitely worth the price of admission but not quite as good as I expected.
Here’s a track from the Shrines’ latest platter “What is?!” called “Took My Lady Out to Dinner”
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