Moon Hooch w/ Balkun Bros. Bar 2/3/16

Just caught the last tune of local blues outfit Balkun Bros. The back room at Bar was packed for an indoor-hippie-freak out for area buskers Moon Hooch. Legend has it that this trio of drums, sax, and sax hooned their chops in a NYC subway stop. I missed them at the 2015 Vibes because they were dealt a miserable time slot. I couldn't see the drummer from my vantage point, but his propulsive fills created the palate for sax. One saxman played alto exclusively and sang and rapped a bit. The other saxman started out on baritone and moved to some homemade sax contraption that looked like a mutant handrail and gave off a Bassnectar-like EDM leg hair shaking synth sound. The second sax-er also played a small keyboard laptop thing. The trio had a lot of energy which kept the the packed house in a perpetual pogo. The second saxer even strapped on a sawed off traffic cone to the sax bell for extra effect. Like many dance offerings, the songs didn't vary in structure, and the sparse vocals seemed like blurry add-ons . This music pivots on crescendo, not song structure. At many points, the dueling saxes fired their sound at each other like some rock-em sax-em robots. "Stand clear the closing" indeed.