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In all honesty, I'd only heard about Ramona Falls the day prior to the show, but since I'm such a big ol' honkin' Menomena fan, I requested the assignment. That being said up front, I didn't have a real handle on the set list during the show. Therefore what follows will simply be an assessment of the show overall (which rocked).

Brent Knopf took the stage solo, playing the most beautiful black Ovation guitar. I want it. The first song was simple and quite pretty (I'm pretty sure it was "Diamond Shovel"), albeit a tiny bit loud in the vocals. Brent was joined onstage by the rest of Ramona Falls for the duration of the set. Gotta say, the drummer was really the breakout member of the band, joking with the audience, "Ok we're going to lay down some ground rules...Rule #1: Rock the fuck out...Rule #2: Have a good time!"

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This weekend is bursting with awesomeness big enough to boot camp our butts into high gear for Bumbershoot (is it really less than a couple weeks away?). I'm working on my show recommendations for Saturday and Sunday (coming soon - and they might surprise you), but let's first make sure you know the dealio for the big ole Friday.

This Friday night (August 28) the Crocodile has put together a show blending our favorite old / new and SEA / PDX into a rocker of a night: Ramona Falls, BOAT, and Y La Bamba.

Ramona Falls is the first solo venture by Brent Knopf, 1/3 of Portland's critically-acclaimed and indie-kid-favorite Menomena.  If you haven't heard Intuit, the recently released debut record by Ramona Falls, yet - fret not! You can hear a full stream of it now on the Barsuk Records website (how kind of you Barsuk!).

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