French Miami, Sweet Crude Bill and the Lighthouse Nautical Society, Andy Friedman March 27, 2008

Sweet Crude Bill and the Lighthouse Nautical Society is a San Francisco six-piece band firing up rock music for the masses.

Andy Friedman's bitchin' site-specific concept-painting presents a disquiet juxtaposition of projected images with real-time roadhouse country-tinged soundscapes emanating from an assemblage of musical instruments whose operators are known as The Other Failures on a pre-determined stage. When Friedman introduces a series of quasi-theatrical word interplays ranging in timbre, tone, title and form through the vibration of his vocal chords to accompany the accumulation of media, he pushes his crap into the realm of honky-tonk.