Seattle Weekly
April 12, 2001
The Soft Boys
by "M. Gnome"
It'd be nice to have a Tractor crowd as well-behaved as the crew of 30 or so who packed the Belltown diner Two Bells last week for another visit by Robyn Hitchcock. In town for the Soft Boys reunion (which sold out the Croc a few nights later), Hitchcock and drummer Morris Windsor joined Young Fresh Fellows Scott McCaughey and Kurt Bloch for an impromptu, literally unplugged, late-night set. Wryly dubbing his makeshift band the "Young Fresh Boys", Hitchcock led the quartet through songs by both represented bands and covers of Dylan and Beatles classics, as well as more obscure fare. Sloppy as hell and interrupted by Hitchcock's beer runs to the bar, the jam held the audience's attention despite the lack of amplification. And with nary a "shhhh" to mar the evening. You betcha!
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