Poor Sally Jesse Raphael.
It?s sad enough that many of her talk shows were canceled, but now bands are naming themselves after her ? or rather, their dislike for her programs.
“They had a TV and all they could get was Sally Jessie Raphael,” lead singer Dee Prescott said of how her bandmates chose the name. “They just grew to hate the show.”
And frankly, Prescott said, the members of this punk/thrash group are goofy anyway so it seemed like an off-the-wall name would suit them. Makes sense when you consider that the latest incarnation of the band came together informally when five friends, who all knew each other from the Kingston, Ontario, Canada, music scene, joined together. Their goal wasn?t really great music, but just to have fun, Prescott said.
“It was kind of weird,” Prescott said. “I actually played bass [with this group of friends] a long time before it became a band.”
Just as the band line up slowly developed in a few years ago, so, too, did its music. In fact, the “old school metal” sound of the band didn?t really set well with Prescott at first.
“I don?t usually like that kind of music, but I loved the energy of the bandand their performances,” Prescott said. “Anything you do with your friends is fun.”
In Sally?s case, touring in support of its latest CD, it?s also successful. Critics, while not giving rave reviews, have certainly given the music its share of thumbs up.
“Their second LP, Don?t Worry Lady, is a punishing, pulsing dose of metalcore split evenly between workmanlike hardcore throb, with the occasional Melvins-like plod,” Nashville Scene reported.
But for all the hard-core throbbing of its music, Prescott said the band members don?t take themselves too seriously. Consider that she wrote the lyrics for the album in about three days. And she laughs when she mentions how she always finds herself dancing to the music the group plays.
“We?re friends,” Prescott said. “And this just worked. It?s like magic.”
IF YOU GO
I Hate Sally with The Chariots, Misery Signals, I am Ghost, and First Begotten
» Venue: Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard St., Baltimore
» Time: 7 p.m. doors, 7:30 p.m. show; Sunday
» Tickets: $10; missiontix.com; 410.662.0069
