Here’s the glass-smashin’ new video from Portland country purveyors Denver, for their seemingly easy-going track “The Way It Is,” from their splendid self-titled debut album. In the video, the Kenton Club is gussied up to look like a rough, rowdy roadhouse—not a huge stretch, I suppose but the chicken wire is a good touch. In glorious slow motion, we see Tom Bevitori lead the band in a rendition of the tune, as all hell breaks loose around them. Tables are crashed, bottles are smashed, drinkers are bashed, and the bar gets trashed. Dalton would be proud—or, actually, probably really disappointed in everybody.
Denver play a Thanksgiving-eve show this Wednesday, November 21 at the Doug Fir. Rowdy good times are guaranteed, but no bottles will be smashed upside the head, so rest easy. But you can expect to still be a little bit hungover when it’s time to sit down to turkey. Raymond Byron and the White Freighter and Meridian are also on the bill.
God, after reading so many bloviating blurbs about Denver from all the local tastemakers as being the real deal Holyfield country rock that Portland doesn’t deserve.. this is, fucking lame. Tepid songwriting, lukewarm performance, and a gimmicky video set up to give the band an aura of Roadhouse barbrawl danger that is about as genuine as the bands collection of trucker hats. Next!
If you are watching online music videos for “danger,” good luck with that, mediocre.
The rest of us will continue to watch them for “fun,” which this video definitely is.
Don’t be deliberately obtuse. The band was clearly re-creating a bar brawl in their video to lend their image an air of something unpredictable. Sadly, it achieved the exact opposite effect.
@mediocre
Seems to me they were re-creating a bar brawl in their video to lend their image an air of something fun. There, I just fixed your sentence for you. Can’t wait to see the show on Wednesday.
Anyone casually tossing out “bloviating blurbs” is obviously a stranger to good times.