The Gutter Twins @ Fuzz Club (May 2, 2008)The Gutter Twins make the perfect music for drinking your sorrows away in a dark bar, but they are also perfect for a rock'n'roll night out. Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli have an impressive history behind them (Screaming Trees and Afghan Whigs respectively, two of the finest American bands ever in my opinion) and haven't stopped creating great music either solo or collaborating with others (Dulli fronts The Twilight Singers and Lanegan seems to be everywhere; just for his most recent appearances in Athens we've seen him with The Twilight Singers, Isobel Campbell and Soulsavers). Their combination also works perfectly; Lanegan is the calm at the center of the storm, the anchor of the Gutter ship, while Dulli is the whirlwind rotating around the stage, one minute playing guitar or piano, the next heading into the audience, mike in hand. "Idle Hands" is naturally the highlight of the evening, a song that can hold it's own next to any anthem of the grunge era, "All Misery / Flowers" and "The Stations" follow close. Except for tracks off "Saturnalia" we also get to hear material from the front men's illustrious past, with Screaming Trees' "Shadow of the Season" gaining the loudest applause. Despite of the venue's less than stellar sound quality this has been a great rock'n'roll night out, regardless of whether you want to drink your blues away or kick out the jams!
The Gutter Twins @ Fuzz Club (May 2, 2008)
The Gutter Twins @ Fuzz Club (May 2, 2008)
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