Goin’

May 18th 2008 by E..

I always think it’s funny when I meet a musician who writes incredibly strange songs and they turn out to be the most normal, down to earth person…Tim DeLaughter of The Polyphonic Spree and Stan Ridgway are both prime examples of this (Ridgway a little less so, since he is a pretty interesting character)…I met yet another totally normal writer of outlandish songs on Wednesday night…for someone who wrote a concept album about six-legged robotic horses who think they’re real horses, Chris Eaton of Toronto’s Rock Plaza Central is really a just a regular guy…the band’s performance at World Cafe Live on Wednesday was very enjoyable, and featured many songs from their recent release, Are We Not Horses?…the five-piece version of the band played all sorts of instruments, like banjo, mandolin, glockenspiel, and the drummer used various blunt objects for sticks…

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