LouFest 2010 Preview: Adam Reichmann and the Ghosts of Electricity

Adam Reichmann and the Ghosts of Electricity at Off Broadway

Disclosure: I’ve known and been friends with Adam Reichmann since he was in a band called Sourpatch and an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, working part-time at Olin Library. Adam took care of a few late fees for me back in the day.

These days, he’s been working full-time with video at an advertising agency. He hasn’t released a record in 6 years, but he hasn’t stopped writing songs, and he’s surfaced from time to time at a low-key show around town.

At Off Broadway last night, he debuted a new band, the Ghosts of Electricity, and a batch of new songs, as well as revamped tunes from the long-gone Nadine. The set was no-frills, no-baloney, two-guitars, bass-and-drum rock & roll, as indebted to Bryan Adams as Alex Chilton (Adam and his band will be playing the Big Star tribute and KDHX Benefit on September 24), as tuneful as anything he’s ever played, but looser, freer, less self-conscious, and unconcerned with perfectionism.

Adam has been working on a new record for so long that the Chinese Democracy jokes stick. But whenever it’s finished, it will be worth hearing, if you still love a good rock & roll song.

Adam Reichmann and the Ghosts of Electricity perform at 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 28 at LouFest. 88.1 KDHX is a media sponsor of LouFest.

Posted by | August 20, 2010 | Concerts, Video/Film | Comment 

Comments