After seeing Ty Segall at his second Melbourne show at The Corner on a balmy summer’s night, I realised although it was the accessibility of his more psychedelic-pop numbers like The Keepers and The Singer, Segall’s roots lie in punk rock and metal, most notably Black Sabbath, whose song Paranoid received a double-play in the encore – the first version was as true to the original as possible but the second version was Segall’s psyched-out interpretation.
Segall’s set elicited its first crowd-surfer three songs in with his cover of psychedelic blues rock band The Groundhogs’ Rich Man, Poor Man.
As is the way with most punk rock acts, it seems this final Melbourne show, at the end of a four-gig run that started in Perth, Meredith and the first Corner show, the band was tight and in tune as opposed to fatigued and listless. With Segall on the far right of stage the imposing shaggy-haired Mikal Cronin took centre stage with the similarly shaggy-haired guitarist Charles Moothart on the left. At the back centre was the incredible, barefoot rock drummer Emily Epstein, who looks as though she has been ripped straight of the set of The Runaways or local band Drunk Mums whose male guitarist Dean Whitby she shares a distinct similarity. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both very attractive individuals.
Ty Segall’s performance was compelling, heavy and damn electric with the audience, many of who foreseeably may’ve been seeing him for the third time in three days, were left baying for more as the band exited stage right.
BY DAN WATT
Photo by Emily Day
Loved: Fuzz’s version of Rich Man, Poor Man.
Hated: Short people thinking because they can’t see, it’s cool to rudely push in front of me without even an excuse me. Hey shorty, it’s not your birthday.
Drank: Coke Zero, because I am trying to lose weight.
