Best Reunion Tour
STAFF PICK: Reunions, schmeunions. All the nostalgia in the world can't hide the fact that when musical knobs "get back together because the music was magic, man..." they really mean, "because people are too dumb to remember that we sucked the first time around." Not so with L.A.'s mighty Plimsouls, who burned down Club Congress on February 2, 1996, until nothing was left but our memories of that gig, and how it was every bit as powerful as the 'souls concerts back in the late '70s. Peter Case, looking, with his scraggly beard, like one of the guys bunging for change on a traffic medium, never sounded more passionate and energized at the mic: He's that rare mixture of white soulman and white-hot rocker. And his fretboard telepathy with lead axeman Eddie Muñoz was unbelievable--the band's extended midsection in "Million Miles Away" sounded like "Eight Miles High" crossed with Coltrane's "My Favorite Things." Plenty of jawbones were seen clattering onto the Congo floor. And with new drummer Clem Burke playing half the set standing up, rooster haircut shakin' and mouth agape, well, safe to say that old Blondie fans got their nostalgia batteries charged a bit as well. But it was no nostalgia trip for the band: The new material, previewing the forthcoming album, was well up to the high standards. Never mind the kabuki makeup folks, here's the Plimsouls.
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