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| The Devil Makes Three |
The venue was extremely over sold by at least 100 tickets. The concertgoers who didn't arrive by the end of the opener struggled to find a spot to stand. The audience was spilling out into the lobby. The extremely drunk and/or high crowd was being pushed together tightly to make room for a few despite the fact that there were many. The only place with any room was by the stage. But standing near there exposed spectators to the dreaded moshers. During the second song an intoxicated thug threw his first punch. Welcome to the final night of
The Devil Makes Three Fall Tour.
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| The Devil Makes Three |
The crowd mainly wore flannel shirts and all sorts of hats (trucker hats, hipster hats, hippie hats, witch hats, and even a bear hat). They came to bare witness to the incredibly talented alt-country band
The Devil Makes Three. The trio formed in Santa Cruz, California in 2002 despite the fact that they all grew up in the New England/Vermont area. Silver haired
Pete Bernhard sang the majority of the songs while raven-haired stand up bass player
Lucia Turino drove the rhythm. Guitar/banjo player
Cooper McBean's scruffy
beard made him
look like someone who .... plays the banjo. McBean caused chaos every time he took the mic (it might be due to song choices like
Gracefully Facedown). It did inspire the inebriated thug to push his next victim to the ground (and hard). Security was nowhere to be found.
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Pete Bernhard - All Photos by
The Rock and Roll Princess |
For this tour, the band added a fiddle player and drummer for a fuller sound (I guess the devil makes five as well). Cover songs such as
Robert Johnson's Drunken Hearted Man and
Ralph Stanley's I am the Man Thomas were given amazing
The Devil Makes Three transformations. But original songs such as
Spinning Like a Top,
Old Number Seven (as in
Jack Daniel's Whiskey), and
Worse or Wrong had the audience shouting-a-long to the lyrics. This resulted in the drunken thug choking a woman that dared cross his path. Two guys in the mosh pit freed the petrified victim from his grip. Security must have been too busy to notice.
The Devil Makes Three closed with
Do Wrong Right singing, "
Well most things that I know, I didn't learn in class/The road don't go forever, so ride it while it lasts/If you're gonna raise a ruckus, one word of advice/If you're gonna do wrong buddy do wrong right." At this point, the thug was surround by the good citizens of the mosh pit preventing him from doing any further wrong (right or wrong) that night.
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| Scott H. Biram |
Scott H. Biram usually plays at
Three Kings Tavern, a much smaller venue, when he appears in Denver. On Saturday and Sunday, Biram performed at the larger
Ogden Theatre as part of
The Devil Makes Three tour.
Scott H. Biram grew up in a small town in Texas not far from Austin. He was exposed to roots music while earning a degree in fine arts at
Southwest State University. Armed with tons of guitars and a stool, Briam preached and hollered about hard living. He unapologetically told the crowd he was going to play the same set list as the previous night. Before playing the emotional
Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue, Biram recalled telling his mother that the song was going to be a hit. He closed by shouting, "Now go buy some of my sh*t." At this point of the evening, the evil monster had yet surfaced.
See you at the next show. I'll be the one wondering what do wrong right even means.
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