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Maritime @ Turner Hall
Saturday, May 3, 2008
It
is safe to say that anyone who keeps in touch with the ever-growing
Recently
returning from a successful run of Japanese tour dates with Jimmy Eat World in
March, Maritime was welcomed back home by a warm audience of fans, friends and
family at the historic Turner Hall Ballroom. Looking more than happy to
reciprocate the audience’s enthusiastic greeting, von Bohlen struck the opening
chords to Heresy’s “Guns of Navarone”
to kick off the nearly 75-minute set.
About
halfway through the show, drummer Dan Didier kicked into the drum intro of “For
Science Fiction,” arguably Maritime’s best-known pseudo single, and continued
to prove why he is a cut above the rest (and why geniuses like Mark Linkous of
Sparklehorse have hired him for work in the past). Guitarist Dan Hinz and
bassist Justin Klug also held their own throughout other set highlights,
including songs from both 2006’s We, the
Vehicles and 2004’s Glass Floor
such as “Parade of Punk Rock T-Shirts,” “Tearing Up the Oxygen” and “German
Engineering.”
Being
a quintessential working–class band is hard. It requires thick skin and a
draining productivity ethic. But this is nothing new for veterans like
Maritime—it’s more like a hauntingly familiar reality. Selling 500,000 albums
may be a lofty goal for von Bohlen and company right now, but accepting the
title of “local heroes” would probably mean a lot more to them anyway, and
they’ve already earned that honor.
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