Music Profile: 1 Night Stand
Get Off Your High Horse and JAM
Nick Macksood
There’s a game I like to play called: pick the Pandora channel you’re most embarrassed to admit you’d happily listen to. Mine is–unabashedly–the music that you’d find if you wandered into a 1 Night Stand concert.
1 Night Stand is a cover band out of Boston that plays rock hits that span from the 60s to the aughts (that’s the period from 2000-2009. The more you know…). Hitting bars all over Massachusetts, 1 Night Stand’s lineup maintains a busy schedule by vibing off the energy emanating from the crowd on any given night.
The three-piece power group led by front man “Dangerous” Dan Panico, is backed by Andre Lamarre on lead guitar, Kumari Miker on the bass and Mark Pozzo on the drums
But back to their perceived musical preferences… Many of 1 Night Stand’s demos and YouTube videos reveal a penchant for early 2000s pop rock. Expect to hear some Lit, a little Blink 182, maybe some No Doubt. And please advise, there are two types of people in this world: those who acknowledge Gwen Stefani’s chops and then there are stone cold liars.
What is it about these songs that we like so much? Let’s answer that by destroying the argument that cover bands are all clichéd. If cliché is oversimplification–in this case, of music, of art–in lieu of beautiful expression, then cover bands take what has already been done well and play it, typically, at a lower level.
On the other hand, the Beatles are gone. Gwen Stefani had a solo career, No Doubt is no longer. Furthermore, clichés “work best when they link our singular experiences rather than efface them,” as Leslie Jamison says (bet you thought you’d never find a Leslie Jamison reference in a 1 Night Stand write-up, did you?).
Which is the point of 1 Night Stand, really. Their frequent appearances at the Wharf in Edgartown this summer do not elicit crowds looking for originality. What we’re seeking is a culmination of bodies, of voices, shrieking high up in the rafters as we tighten our grip around a Coors Light. “We want the world and we want it now,” said Jim Morrison, may he rest in peace. We want it now. Who has time for originality these days anyways? It’s Saturday night at the Wharf and all I want is to sing along to the lyrics with everyone else around me.
