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Deer Tick Played Pier 54 NYC

August 16th, 2011 by chocko

John McCauley of Deer Tick

Deer Tick

DOM

Last Thursday, Pier 54 was the place to be to catch some free indie music and the last installment of the 2011 Hudson River Rocks series. Translations opened up the night…gotta catch them next time. We got caught up watching Obama drive by in a cavalcade of cop cars and secret service in the West Village. New England party rockers, DOM got the drunken asses shaking with their grungy surf pop-music from outer space, keyboards cranked up and new band members in the lineup. Big up to the cover of the Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry.” DOM has a new EP on Astralwerks, “Family of Love.” Check it out for some chill, dreamy tunes.

Deer Tick headlined the night led by guitarist and singer John McCauley and a band that included Ian O’Neil who used to be in the NJ indie rock band, Titus Andronicus. Also in the lineup were Rob Crowell (keyboards and saxophone), Christopher Ryan (bass) and Dennis Ryan (drums). The band played everything from blues, garage rock, punk, and a little bit of folk and country music. These guys put on an awesome live show playing crowd favorites including “Baltimore Blues No. 1”, “Easy”, “Little White Lies” and “Dirty Dishes”. Their new punk song “Let’s All Go To The Bar” is sure to be a highlight on their forthcoming album. Deer Tick sure know how to please their fans…taking requests from the rowdy audience. The band also played their share of fun covers. It was just too bad nobody knew the Tom Waits’ song “Innocent When You Dream” which didn’t really start off as a good sing along, but McCauley schooled the crowd who sang along by the end of the song. Now, if we could get some of those youngsters out there to buy a Tom Waits record or two the world would be a better place. They played a couple others covers too including “La Bamba”, “Maybellene”, The Replacements’ “Bastards of Young” and a Townes Van Zandt song, “White Freight Liner Blues” which they closed out the show with. Be on the lookout for their album titled “Divine Providence” on Partisan Records which drops in late October!