The T-Shirts, The Cyril Lords, The Crown Jewels - Howard's Club H, 2/28/04

February 28, 2004. On the same day that over a million people in Taiwan formed a several-hundred mile long human chain to commemorate a 1947 anti-government uprising, BG supergroup The T-Shirts imploded on stage in front of a packed crowd at Howard's Club H. Although they weren't due to play their last show for another month, the band (Matt Truman, guitar/vox; Walter "Black Mac" McKeever, guitar/vox; Miguel Oria, bass/vox; Henry "Feezil" Hirzel, drums) called their two-year local music career quits early in a now legendary on-stage spat.

The T-Shirts at Nate & Wally's Fishbowl, BG

At their best, The T-Shirts played an infectious blend of straight-ahead rock. But as one of the ever-informative informants at Toledowiki astutely observes: "Three frontmen and a drummer. A recipe for total disaster."

Thanks to Miguel for this and all the other flyers he's passed along.

The Cyril Lords were a Detroit garage rock band in the Hentchmen and Gories mold, and although their Motor City origins means they fall outside the brief of this humble blog, I mention them simply because it gives me a chance to show the following video:



Opening this show (and for their debut as a live act too) was psychedelic band The Crown Jewels, and here's one song from that set on what turned out to be a very long night.