moe. shows up ratdog
by brianm on 7/21/09Masquerade - AtlantaMany .rons will claim moe. peaked several years ago. This may or may not be true, however you are cheating yourself a great music experience by skipping out on this band. If what you crave is a band that truly cares about the show it puts on and consistently delivers, moe. is your band. moe. continues its tradition of playing songs to appease the masses and sneaking enough old school in to keep its most loyal fans coming back. Ratdog, on the other hand, is a nostalgic act at best. Rather than delivering a set packed with Bob Weir's Grateful Dead standards, Bobby and Ratdog instead deliver sets where the majority of the songs are (were?) Jerry's. Ratdog can bring the house down, and when they bust into an old school Bobby song and find a nice jam its worth the price of admission. But the current Ratdog lineup does far too much noodling for a non-diehard Dead/Bobby fan to really enjoy the show.