OFF: Gov't Mule (was Re: New to the list)

[owen]

Brian Halligan wrote:

> At 02:11 PM 6/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >> From:          Brian Halligan <bthalligan at EARTHLINK.NET>
> >>
> >> I've been putting in long hours at work lately, so no chance to catch the
> >> Mule.  I'm still hoping to catch their outdoor show here in Rochester next
> >> month.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >
> >What's the story on that gig?  I hear it's a free show?
> >
> >theo
>
> All I know is the date and place.  It's very possible it's a free show.
> I'll have to look into that.  I'm surprised they didn't try to get in on
> the Syracuse Blues Fest.  They could have had Savoy Brown open for them!
> Or vice-versa.
>
> Brian
>
> BTW, Savoy Brown has a new album out.  Don't know the lineup beyond Simmons
> though.

  How is Gov't Mule? The only time I actually heard them was when they played
live on WBCN in Boston about 4 years ago. I remember thinking they sounded
strangely a little like Black Sabbath, though less 'cheesey heavy metal'-ish, and
I guess more blues-based. I liked them, went looking for an album, and could find
none. I then heard nothing about them until they were brought up a month or so
ago on this list. They must have had some popularity though to have been on 'BCN,
an alternative-rock station held tightly within the tendrils of a inconceivably
mammoth corporate monster.