Episode 033: Flogging Molly
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The first time I saw Flogging Molly was on a Monday night at Molly Malone's in Los Angeles sometime in mid 1997. I was living in LA for a short stint, helping MovieMaker magazine get its office up and running after working with them in Seattle. That night, I went to see a friend of a friend of a friend's band. They were, I have to admit, unremarkable, but toward the end of their show, the tiny, narrow Molly Malone's pub started to fill up. It was a Monday night, in a weird section along Fairfax and the club was starting to get packed. My friend Brian wanted to leave, but I said, "No way...something good is coming up..."
And, of course, what came was a lot better than good.
The Howard Fishman Quartet is not a jazz band, though sometimes they improvise as in that musical form. They aren't a blues or a folk band either, but you'll hear those influences at play, too. A little swing, a little soul, a little rock...the Howard Fishman Quartet will make you recall a wide variety of American music, but it's put together in such a natural, effortless way that it sounds like an entirely new form.
