Davey Dynamite full band set at Gnarnia

Davey Dynamite's much anticipated full band set is this Saturday at Gnarnia in Chicago. A number of musicians will join Davey to play his songs with full live instrumentation for the first time. Click on the flier for more details. Many of us have been looking forward to the prospect of a Davey Dynamite full band show for a long time. Below are a few of Davey's electric songs that are making us geek out about this show.

Steve O: So my favorite electric Davey Dynamite song is “Sad Songs,” hands down. That song has basically been my life for the past, approximately, two years. “Long drive home,” check (it’s around 14 hours); listening to Lucero while approaching Chicago, check (okay, I listen to Ben Nichols’ solo album more, but still); that bit about blasting music to get through the day, check; realizing that “I ain’t got it so rough,” check. As for the music, I love the addition of the horns. And that fake ending? Holy shit, that makes it into such an epic song. And it takes what are essentially downers, in sad songs, in turns it into one of the most positive things in the world. “The sad songs are to let you know, that you’re not alone.” Hell yeah! Needless to say, I am fucking stoked for Saturday night.

Danny Brawlins: I for one am beyond stoked for "Down and Up." I've been wanting to see that done with a full band for years now. I'm honored to be playing guitar on it Saturday night! As for recorded full band tracks, I'm really excited to go wild for "WAIT." It's one of my favorites tracks off Davey's new album and it's gonna be his first time playing it live.

Phil Collins: From the first time I listened to Davey's album "WAITT," (which made it to the final round in this blog's 2013 albums of the year bracket,) "Destroy Privilege" spoke to me on a personal level. I remember staring up at the sky as a child, thinking it was a lucky thing that I was born in America, rather than someplace that lacked our abundance of edible food and clean water. This rudimentary notion of the sheer randomness of a) life itself and b) the factors that shaped privilege in our world during the last few millennia has stuck with me as a lens of my worldview. Not to mention that the song is a fierce jolt of energy. One evening at the House Cafe, Davey was set up near the front entrance, playing a few songs between other bands' sets. After the third or fourth band, most people went outside. I was one of the few standing around inside and Davey asked me what I wanted to hear. I asked him to play "Destroy Privilege." He was unsure at first because he had never played it live before, but he went ahead with it and killed it. The idea of seeing this song performed with a full band makes me want to start moshing right now.