Los Straitjackets does make seasonal adjustments it’s likely Friday’s show will include the band’s version of the theme from “The Munsters.”īut as musicians, Los Straitjackets are no joke. “There’s a little bit of a Halloween aspect to it, except we wear masks all year ’round,” Townson says. And they fit particularly well in late October. But the joke went over so well that Los Straitjackets never took them off. Those Mexican wrestling masks began as a one-off joke at a show years ago. Townson has been with the masked masters of twang instrumentals since 2010. Los Straitjackets, playing Friday at the Historic German House, 315 Gregory St. And they even use it as a wedding song.Īnd there’s the more immediate concern. The song, “My Love For Evermore,” Townson says, “is a standard in Europe, people have it tattooed on them. Or he’s jetting back and forth between here and London as a hired guitar, or to produce a record for a band like the Swiss rockabilly outfit Hillbilly Moon Explosion. Playing guitar on tours with soul singer John Ellison and pop singer Eleni Mandell. He’s a co-founder of The Hi-Risers, the glorious garage-rock trio, a steady part of the Rochester scene since 1989. There are times when Greg Townson seems to be spread so thin, you can read these words right through him.
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