TIKI LOGIC: The Missionary Position

Music news through the eyes of a souvenir

By Bobble Tiki on June 9, 2010

It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. ...

That's just like the assholes that surround me at Weekly Volcano World Headquarters. Sure, devote an entire issue to the Grit City Fest and Squeak and Squawk - and don't tell Bobble Tiki about it! See if Bobble Tiki cares that he's the only guy (suspiciously over 40) not included in the group Volcano/Squeak and Squawk/Grit City hug.

Just see if he cares!

Here's a hint: Bobble Tiki doesn't.

No, he doesn't. Bobble Tiki is fine with letting "the kids" have all the fun. What do they know, anyway? Soon enough, they'll be just as old, decrepit, and tragically un-hip as Bobble Tiki. Let's see how they like THAT!

But more importantly to this column, the Volcano's Squeak and Squawk/Grit Cit Fest infatuation this week gives Bobble Tiki the prime opportunity to shine a light in a completely different direction, and call dibs on a show that should most certainly be checked out.

A longtime friend of the Volcano, Junior - or Jeff Angell - will play Doyle's Public House in Tacoma on Saturday, June 12, with his new band (that is, newer than Post Stardom Depression) The Missionary Position.

Scandalous, Bobble Tiki knows. And sexy.

But there's more to Angell's Missionary Position than simple innuendo and hip shimmies. Having spoken to the Volcano on a number of occasions, all Bobble Tiki had to do was rummage through the piles and piles of issues past that make up this rag's high-tech archives to find some perspective on the situation.

From Jan. 9, 2010:

Bobble Tiki has said it before, but it's worth repeating. Mixing a dirty, Motown-esque vibe with an eight-ball of sex and the classic gritty songwriting of Jeff Angell, The Missionary Position is not to fuck with. Diamonds in a Dead Sky, the band's somewhat recently released full-length debut proves it. In truth, at least in Bobble Tiki's humble opinion, the song "Let's Start a Fire" alone proves it. While The Missionary Position's brand of guilty guitar grooves aren't balls to the wall, all the time like Angell's more well known band - the sporadic and infamous Post Stardom Depression - there's still something very gripping about the way Angell writhes, as always. The true definition of a workingman's rocker, Angell and The Missionary Position are a nice fit for Doyle's. - Bobble Tiki

See. Bobble Tiki is no flip-flopper. Everything he wrote before, he still believes. Back in January, The Missionary was a perfect fit for Doyle's It still applies. Bobble Tiki dares you to find out for yourself.

Until then, Bobble Tiki is going to crawl back in the corner and chug some Carlo Rossi.

See! Bobble Tiki CAN BE YOUNG AND HIP TOO!

Plus, it's "good, honest wine."

See you next week.