let there be rockgrass!

click the title and you'll find out all you need to know about the band (i think)

anyway, tuesday night, we (me and woja) went to see hayseed dixie
and fuck me it was awesome!
they're the band that i was talking about a while ago, they do country/bluegrass versions of rock classics, the first album they did was all AC/DC covers (hence the name hayseed dixie say it quickly a few times, you'll get it in the end)
they played loads of classic rock tunes, and threw in a few newer ones too...like greenday's holiday. and it was just amazing to watch! there was a guy on the banjo who was wicked bad, so good was he that woja decided there and then that he wants to learn to play himself. there was a guy on a mandolin (i think it was a mandolin anyway) and his hand was strumming so fast that at times it was just a blur! the bassist was huge...and looked to have modelled himself on james hetfield a little...he had some mean ass looking lambchop sideburns going on too!
they were filming for some reason too...i'm not complaining, it was cool!
and during the encore, the pulled frank skinner out from the back to play banjo with them on duelling banjos (that's such a familiar tune that i'm not going to go into it) and although he wasn't brilliant and in no way could he keep up with the band when they were in full swing, he gave it a good shot!!
it was really cool!
we had a blast
and they rocked us all night long! with a (nearly) 2 hour set and no warm-up/support act!!
and it was funny as hell watching these guys do the classic rock poses and things like that, including "shooting" the crowd with the acoustic bass and having the guy on the banjo and the guy on the mandolin do weird things that if i try to explain i'll just end up confusing people (maybe woja will leave a comment explaining the banjo test)
it rocked
it really did
laters peeps