Live Music Review:
"Port was well-rehearsed, gifted and not afraid to combine ideas in order to take a chance at something new. People often refer to bands as “they sound like…” or “they are a cross between such-and-such.”
First off, those people blow for trying to pigeonhole music. Second, Port are so distinct that they will make your ear realize them from any distance, like Prince or Rage or similar unique bands.
Port was dynamic and brought in sounds that combined well, although it might not have seemed that way at first, a la the peanut butter and banana sandwich phenomenon.
When I got up close enough to realize that one of the guitarists was playing a Delta Blues slide riff (on his lap no less) in the middle of a jazz fused rock tune, I was taken aback. It sounded like the round peg was really meant for the square hole.
Their set is a mutiny to standardized styles. These kids, and I mean kids (the drummer had to be carded to get in), are playing everything and blending it to a fine paste. Port is jazz. Port is very modern blues without the common minor chords that usually infest the style. Port is shuffle rock with three-part harmony.
They are heroically tight and, as anyone remotely associated with a band can assert, they make the starts and stops sound like they’ve been wood-shedding for 20 years, or it is a common strand of their combined DNA? That’s the fine tuning of a well-oiled machine. Good on you, Port!"
-The Easy Reader
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