Vintage Trouble at Coachella 2013 (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
If you didn’t shake off your hangover and make your way into the festival grounds for Vintage Trouble, you missed one of the best sets of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
“Thanks for coming to the breakfast show,” singer Ty Taylor said to the enthusiastic crowd.
I felt like the set was worshipping at the church of rock and soul, atoning for Coachella sins committed and not committed just yet.
Taylor twirled and danced like a young James Brown and the whole impeccably dressed band brought one of the best sets I’ve seen so far at the 2013 Coachella Festival and it will be tough to top it.
“Blues Hand Me Down” and “Nancy Lee” we’re done early in the set but the between song banter was great, too. [Correction: I previously had “Blues Hand Me Adorn,” which I think was an iPad autocorrect.]
“We wrote this next song to invigorate the root shakras,” Taylor said as the band went into “Pelvis Pusher.”
I don’t think I’ve seen that much pelvic thrusting since the last time I went to a midnight showing of “Rocky Horror” and everyone did the “Time Warp.”
Later, Taylor not only got near the crowd, he climbed over the barricade and twirled in circles with us.
And when he got back to the stage, he preached about spreading the gospel of fun to our friends and those we know who are angry and not in the field.
“They get so dark they don’t come out to a field and dance in a circle,” Taylor said.
After the band was done, the crowd vehemently screamed for one more song and Vintage Trouble obliged with “Nobody Told Me .”
I can’t wait to see what the band is doing next.
Also, who do I talk to about getting Vintage Trouble and Riverside icons The BellRays on tour together? The world might implode with awesomeness.