{"id":1615,"date":"2007-05-25T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2015-10-16T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:23:02","slug":"saliva-wmink-scout-bar-webster-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/25\/saliva-wmink-scout-bar-webster-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliva w\/Mink &#8211; Scout Bar &#8211; Webster TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"70%\"><span class=\"small\">Written by Abel Carmona <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"createdate\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">May 25, 2007 at 09:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houstonmusicreview.com\/mambo\/images\/stories\/2007concert\/052507-mink.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/>What&#8217;s up boys and girls, well this week I made way down south over to the Scout Bar to see Saliva and ended up finding a new band I have really come to enjoy.\u00a0 When I walked in to Scout some locals boys out of Deer Park, TX called Angels and Outlaws were up on stage. I watched them for a little while but couldn&#8217;t get in to them much, but they seemed to have their own fan club there so they weren&#8217;t left to die on stage, even though I didn&#8217;t like them much I always like seeing local bands who get a spot opening for bigger bands.<\/p>\n<p>After they finished the band that contacted us about tonight, Mink was up so I waited thinking man this is probably going to suck since they were playing early. But I was very well surprised by front man Neal Carlson and Mink whose onstage energy was incredible. As I watched Mink perform I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the uncanny resemblance that Carlson had to a young Mick Jagger. His vocals and moves also mirrored that of Jagger as well, but not in a &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna be just like Mick&#8221; kind of way. It truly seems to come natural to Carlson who was great on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Drummer Stella Mozgawa also caught my attention, for one having a female drummer isn&#8217;t something you see all the time and secondly she was awesome on stage. I remember telling their tour manager I&#8217;d love to Mink again on a bigger stage that gave them move room to move, it seemed to be very cramped space for the band. I also was given a promo copy of Mink&#8217;s upcoming album and have been playing it for everyone I know saying &#8220;go see this band&#8221; I have truly become a fan of Mink and am hoping they come back to see us again soon, so all of you out there can go check them out.<\/p>\n<p>Next up on the bill was Miser, who I had seen before and remembered not liking very much and tonight proved no different. It&#8217;s not that Miser is a horrible band or anything; there is just something about their sound I can&#8217;t get in to. Most of you out there know what I&#8217;m talking about, sometimes you hear a band and there not bad but for whatever reason you just don&#8217;t like them. Well that&#8217;s how I feel about Miser, that and they do this cover of The Cranberries &#8220;Zombie&#8221; that I didn&#8217;t like much back when The Cranberries did it, so I&#8217;m not too particularly fond of it now when they do it either.<\/p>\n<p>Now this brings us to our headliner for tonight, Saliva. I had always liked a few Saliva songs but they were a band I have never seen live so when Mink contacted us about seeing them and I saw they were opening for Saliva I said what the hell I&#8217;ll go check them out.\u00a0 Front man Josey Scott walked into the lights and led the band into their new single &#8220;Ladies and Gentlemen&#8221; afterward he told the crowd if you&#8217;re ever having a bad day then this is the song you need to turn up and say &#8220;Fuck All Yall&#8221; (yes that&#8217;s the name of the song).<\/p>\n<p>First thing I took notice in was how loud Josey Scotts vocals were he has one of those great rock voices that can belt out those hard grainy vocals that really drive a rock song. As far as the rest of Saliva they weren&#8217;t far behind on bringing the noise to the fans ears. Their set list included songs off of their three albums but seemed to stay with a lot of newer stuff off of &#8220;Blood Stained Love Story&#8221; in the early part of the set. But Saliva didn&#8217;t forget the songs that got them where they are now as the blasted out fan favorites like \u2018Click Click Boom&#8217;, \u2018Always&#8217;, \u2018Your Disease&#8217; and \u2018Superstar&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up having to leave a little early so I missed some of the latter mart of Saliva&#8217;s set, but from what I did see I Can easily say they kicked ass tonight. About the only drawback I can say about tonight was the venue. I love the Scout Bar but for bigger shows it seems like the stage gets filled very easy and bands have a hard time finding enough room to really get out and play without getting in each other&#8217;s way. Well that&#8217;s about it for this one boys and girls, I had a pretty good night and enjoyed finding a new band to listen to too&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Abel Carmona May 25, 2007 at 09:00 PM What&#8217;s up boys and girls, well this week I made way down south over to the Scout Bar to see Saliva and ended up finding a new band I have really come to enjoy.\u00a0 When I walked in to Scout some locals boys out of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/25\/saliva-wmink-scout-bar-webster-tx\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}