Show Review: Din Caliber/Dirty Sweet/The Binges, December 14th @ The King King
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The Binges
TEXT BY: SASHA LEE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: JENNIFER ZILIOTTO
Last Sunday, The Binges headlined the King King along with Jessie Deluxe, Din Caliber and San Diego’s Dirty Sweet. Unfortunately, Halcyon missed Jessie’s opening act. Fortunately, however, I have no photographic evidence of the beaded-dreadlocked mystery man “mcing” the event, apparently named “Dizzy Reed.” I promptly googled his name before writing this article, and this is what I came up with:
Dizzy has been a member of Guns N’ Roses since 1990, playing on Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. Aside from Axl he is the only remaining from the past.
Dizzy says: “No matter what we do, there’s gonna be some people that are just not gonna let go of the old band. But the majority of the people I see out there are having a great time; they’re losing their minds and dancing and singing along. It doesn’t seem to me like they miss the old guys.”
“One by one, people started quitting. The old band was a little more hell-bent on self-destruction; this band, I think, is kinda headed upwards as opposed to downward.”
Reed is a fan of Larry Norman, a pioneer of Christian Music, in which he has played on Norman’s Copper Wires album.
Yeah, seriously, I’m pretty sure no one misses fucking SLASH. So stoked the band is now just Axl’s braided face and this dude. Are you kidding me?!
I also didn’t really get the joke he started the night out with after Din Caliber played. Here’s a transcription, of what he said maybe someone can help me: ”Nice keyboard work Damon Fox. Speaking of keyboards, I play the keyboards. You may have heard of my band, Guns N’ Roses. No one thought we could do it, but after 17 years we put out an album.” Is it supposed to be funny because this dude’s actually acknowledging he has anything to do with the multi-million dollar plop art that is Guns N’ Roses latest sonic assault? I don’t get it.
