Sean’s Night Out: Squirt
Nov 24, 2009, 3:23 PM | Updated: May 13, 2011, 2:07 pm
By SEAN DeTORE
MyNorthwest.com
Squirt is a band that you really need to see live in order to fully appreciate the raw energy and extreme rock and roll that is so fiercely shoved in your face. That’s why it’s too bad you’ll never get to see them play.
Ever.
Here’s a brief history of the band from their MySpace page.
Formed in 1990 by Dick Rossetti and Electric Vee Vee Roark, super hard hitting drummer MC Nelson joined the ranks and the band were up and running despite Rossetti never playing a stringed instrument beforehand… Eric ‘the swede’ Olson joined after Marsh Gooch’ brief tenure on second guitar in 1992. MC Nelson bailed in late 1994, Rossetti got behind the kit and this contingent recorded what has been hailed as their masterpiece, 1995’s ‘Pike St. Ball Bag’…Following an onstage meltdown by the Swede at RKCNDY in November ’95, the band ceased to exist.
Which brings us to today, or really I should say, this past weekend when Squirt reunited for a string of five shows around the Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland areas. I was fortunate enough to witness the unruly greatness of this rock outfit as they played the Sunset Tavern in Ballard to a semi-packed out house. Squirt is straight ahead rock and roll, the kind of music that would have your mother calling the local priest to have her boy checked out. The songs are nonsensical, my favorite being ‘Pizza, Chicken, Burgers’ which with one listen becomes stuck in your head feverishly fighting to escape. Dick Rossetti has an awesome stage presence and what I really love about this band and all others that Dick has been a part of is that they don’t take themselves seriously. They play some songs, they chat up the audience and everyone in the room has a grin from ear to ear.
Here are some pics from the show…
