Tim Fite @ the Casbah

May 28th, 2007 - by JackieSixty

Indie, San Diego, Shows

In the spirit of this newly opened page, my first post is about a band that brought the fun back. A guy who deserves the title of Best Unexpected Opening Band. We were at the Casbah again to see the Wedding Present, more on their brilliance in posts to come. The Casbah is a live music bar venue, on the same street as the airport, that holds 200+ people. The Casbah can’t be beat if you’re looking for an intimate show.
We, like most people, were leaning against the wall, holding pint glasses, talking, shoegazing, drinking, too cool for school. There were two guys wearing roadie jump suits moving equipment on to the stage: iBook, electric and acoustic guitars, projection screen, and wooden boombox. They moved through the crowd, asking people, face-to-face and eye-to-eye to stand closer, stand a little closer. We were wary, we did not want to follow the guy with the wild eyes, in the white jump-suit with his hair gelled up into one curled spike at the front of his head, we wanted to linger in the back, where you linger for when the opening band sucks, for when you hate them and then you can sneak out, back to the bar, outside for a cigarette, whatever, rolling your eyes.
The two guys stripped off their roadie gear. Now they are Tim Fite and the guy he calls his brother. They bring the alt-country-rock-rap-techno-fusion. They bring glory. We are won over, the crowd is won over. The thing about Tim Fite, the reason he is my first post on this site, is because of what this is all about, the live show. Because even when we looked at each other thinking “what the hell is this?,” we laughed, we yelled with him, we bought CDs, we tried to explain him to our friends. Basically this is a blurb to tell you that I can’t explain Tim Fite. I can just tell you that when I go to a show and I time it wrong and I end up seeing the opening band, at the most, I hope for a quarter of what Tim Fite brought to the Casbah.
Visit his site for downloads and other assorted fun and even if his music ain’t your thing, go see him in New York at the Knitting Factory on June 7th.