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The Mae Shi
Oh My Gawd, Gurls!
Put the Giggle into Overdrive!!
It’s LA’s Latest Hunksters!!!
Many of you have likely never heard The Mae Shi. If you were standing here in front of me, I’d put my arm to the side and pluck my belly, going, “Duyrn nuyrn nuyrn…YUUungorrrrw… nuyrn nuyrn…wiiiieee…” And you’d likely be into their sound because I play vocal guitar/bass like Tony Robbins rocks a conference. But describing music with real words is all together different. I hate to do it, and I’m terrible at it. I’d like to only write about how The Mae Shi are friendly, funny, a little spazzy and seem to be very interesting and intelligent people, but that wouldn’t illuminate their musical offerings very well.
So……The Mae Shi are red carpet talents. They got funky bass lines, and the guitar and bass kinda tag in and out of each other sometimes, and then it all rocks real wild, and the drums come in full bore (or just kinda cymbally, jazzy sometimes) and Ezra sorta yells, but he’s got a good voice (high timbre’d, but down-hearted). And the whole time you want to sing along or dance…… See what I mean, that’s horrendous. You might want to call their music, art punk, some kind of “core” (which is totally played) or pfunky (which I would appreciate because I think I just made it up). They’re serious and silly like political comedy…They’re intense and weird like animal mating videos…They sound fun. That’s it…FUN.
They play a lot, so you’ll be able to catch them. Their shows are really wild, like a big drunk puppy. They’re only about a year old and played something like 60 shows last year. See? Fun. They’re fun. As Jeff explained to us, they’re trying to make a different kind of music. Which may not be any kind of breakthrough for a band’s objective, but The Mae Shi do a much more laudable job of it than most. He said it’s been intensely difficult at times (there’s a lot of fucking music out there), that they find themselves influenced a little too heavily in places or simply repeating their previous advances. But they’re keeping at it and moving forward, and that shit’s commendable in and of itself. They’ve been busy working on their new album. It’s all recorded, but each member is making his own mix of the songs (bringing his personal musical background and interests), and then they’re going to decide what to do with them.
When we were taking photos for this article someone drove by in a white Supra and called us faggots. The driver didn’t quite understand that these boys are (sensitive) macho heartthrobs, that the photos on these pages will soon join the annals of teen dreamery. They’re on some Taye Diggs shit! The Mae Shi aren’t faggots at all. In fact, they write and perform their music in order to be able to fuck chicks even better!
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Volume 2, Issue 2 contents
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