Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers played a great show Saturday night at Birdy's. Clyne (the frontman and principle songwriter) and drummer P.H. Naffah (one of the best drummers anywhere, any genre), are holdovers from the moderately successful but still vastly underappreciated band the Refreshments, who recorded two major label albums for Mercury Records, "Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy" and The Bottle and Fresh Horses". They imerged from the same Tempe, Arizona scene that spawned the likes of the Gin Blossoms and Dead Hot Workshop in the early and mid 90's. I was never fortunate enough to see Dead Hot Workshop, who supposedly set the standard for bands in Tempe, but I was fortunate enough to see the original Refreshments once, and have seen RCPM several times...if Dead Hot was better, then they must have really been something, because, Roger Clyne is one of the best frontmen I have ever seen, and he has a pile of great songs that stick in your ears immmediately and stand up under repeated listening...and he has a a band in the Peacemakers that can play with the best of them). He always gives his fans their money's worth and then some. Saturday night was another 2 1/2 hours of RCPM blood, sweat, and tears, killing themselves for about 125 people, and about 75 true fans who knew all the words and sang along on every chorus. A great band that gives 100% every time out. Go to their website...all the CD's are available, including the Refreshments CD's...you can get all 9 of their CD's in a package called the "Whole Enchilada" for $55. No better money ever spent. The individual CD's are all available also for $10 each...do yourself a favor and pick up "Honky Tonk Union" or the Refreshments CD's...or anything else you see out there. And see RCPM the next time they come to town...You won't regret it.