Black Apples, Future Ghost and Tijuana Panthers at The Echo

It was off to The Echo to catch Black Apples, Future Ghost and Tijuana Panthers. The main reason for me was to catch Future Ghost. This was my second time catching them, but first time seeing a full set. Sometimes you catch the back end of a band and you think, "Wow, I want to see them again." You go back another time and realize that you probably caught their one and only good song. As for Future Ghost, loved their full set.

I saw Tijuana Panthers a week ago at Spaceland. This time around . . . hey, they had the crowd dancing. Does one need to say anything more? And then there was Black Apples, the residency band. Interesting note: they had two drum sets on stage. One drummer appears to do triple duty: drums, lead vocals and guitar -- not all at once, of course. (I'm not sure he played the guitar during their set, but he did mention something about them having a friend playing guitar with them for the night so he was just doing vocals.) For one song, he started at the microphone and ended on the drums. Towards the end of their set one of them said, "We have one song left." I was standing next to someone who said, "That's a real short set -- 20 minutes?" I agreed. What was going on. The band huddled and one of them came to the microphone, "Sorry about that, we have two songs left." Okay, now we were talking.

Below photos taken from other venues. Sorry, no photos of Black Apples, just of Future Ghost and Tijuana Panthers.

Future Ghost

Tijuana Panthers