Bands Seen

  Extreme Elvis

  Jewdriver

  Thunderbleed AKA Blind Vengeance

Date:

Saturday, May 10, 2003

Venue:

The Curve Bar

Location:

San Francisco, California, United States

Notes:

From SF Weekly - https://www.sfweekly.com/music/h...

Promises of a Skrewdriver parody band have been bandied about San Francisco since the early '90s, when the group's fervently racist frontman was killed in a “suspicious” car accident. (At the time, the remnants of the British National Front chose to blame Ian Stuart's death on the anti-fascist skinheads from the Revolutionary Socialist Party who periodically beat the crap out of them, rather than on Stuart's own proclivity for drunk driving.) But old-school punks, even those with an appreciation for early Skrewdriver and a passion for stirring the shit on the left as well as on the right, balked. Sure, they could sit around and discuss the merits of the act's first album, the indiscriminately misanthropic All Skrewed Up, which bore the hallmarks of Stuart's Rolling Stones cover band more than his political agenda, but no one was willing to risk the joke onstage. Until now. Comprised of former members of Operation Ivy, Schlong, Tokyo's Love Pigs, and a few other guys with strident senses of humor, Jewdriver will do for Skrewdriver what Dan Savage did for the epithet “faggot.” Donning black robes, beards, and yarmulkes, the mostly Jewish tribute band transforms memorable ditties like “A Case of Pride” into “Pastrami on Rye,” “Europe Awake” into “Get Up and Bake,” “Boots and Braces” into “Jews Ain't Racist,” and “All Hail the New Dawn” into a Chuck Barris tribute titled “All Hail the Jew Gong.” If its reception at Gilman Street in March is any indication, Jewdriver is long overdue. For those not fully enamored of the thought of a full set of tailored Skrewdriver anthems, the band has also put together some Hasidic reinterpretations of Tom Petty, Ice-T, and AC/DC tunes, which it will play by request. I recommend you arrive early because, as the group sings, “It's a long wait in line if you want a kaiser roll.” Jewdriver supports eXtreme Elvis on Saturday, May 10, at the Curve Bar, with Thunderbleed ('70s/'80s metal cover band featuring members of Fuck, Granfaloon Bus, and Beam) opening at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5; call 896-2286.

Seen By:

Dearanxiety