Off! - Whisky a Go Go - 5/8/12
Off!
Timothy Norris Off! Frontman Keith Morris
Whisky a Go Go
5/8/12
See also: Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow
Better than... a keg party at Ian McKaye's house.
Somewhere between a rock and roll history lesson and a lock-in at the Punk Rock Rec Center, Keith Morris and his supergroup Off! reminded a sold out crowd last night exactly how much fun loud raucous music can be. Following up bands Fidlar and Spider Fever, they celebrated the release of their first record to an all ages swarm. A variety of grown-up alt-kids and aging outcasts thrashed, bumped and shoved to Off!'s riff-heavy rage blasts.
The capacity crowd of 500+ defied Whisky's "No Mosh" policy (who could enforce such a thing, anyhow?) and formed a circle pit unlike anything this side of the Clinton administration. While Morris bellowed his politically charged lyrics, sweaty bald guys and mustachioed hipsters braved the rotating rampage before him. 
Timothy Norris Off!
During a break someone shrieked "Punk roooooock!" and Morris politely corrected him, "Can't a guy just be angry and play really aggressive music?"
Of course. The corporate-looking dude in pressed khakis who shoved around guys twice his size needed no such acknowledgement, as he had as much steam to blow of as the teenagers he knocked out of the way, maybe even more. From the looks of it, he probably pulled something that won't heal.
Under Morris' manic theatrics and guitarist Dimitri Coats' thrashing, the congenial riot kept pace for merely forty minutes -- including breaks for "Uncle Keith's" stories of trash fires and youthful mayhem. He even went through a laundry list of bands he'd seen at Whisky and times he played there, which barely slowed-down the crowd's woots and waves of triumphant fist pumps.
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Whisky A Go-Go
8901 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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