Deer Tick At Brooklyn Bowl 12-31-15
Last New Year’s Eve, Deer Tick celebrated their 10th anniversary with a show at Brooklyn Bowl that included guests like Stevie Nicks. This year, the venue was the same but, as John McCauley and Ian O’Neil explained, the emphasis was not on trying to outdo themselves but simply putting on a quality show. If you’ve been following the adventures of this band – originally from Providence – you might remember Stevie Nicks officiated at McCauley’s wedding two years ago. It’s been amazing to see the transformation in McCauley since the first time I met him a few years ago. At the time he was doing a project with a side band Diamond Rugs whose joke name (interpret: dude, I am on drugs) told you a lot about where his head was. These days, the man is clear-eyed…
The husband and father told me there is too much diaper changing going on at his place in Nashville to get any writing done at home but he and O’Neil have each penned a handful since their last album Negativity. These songs had a place in the set – and one in the accompanying video – and will continue to evolve in 2016.
