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december 22, 2001 - philadelphia, pa - khyber
from philadelphia weekly
Dave Doughman transcends space and time, to quote one Swearing at Motorists fan. He's like a subatomic particle onstage, defying any brand of physics we can currently explain. Fuck Heisenberg: This needs to be witnessed firsthand. Doughman, tall and thin, totters about the stage on the points of his toes in front of the flag of his native Ohio, thrashing wildly on the strings of his guitar (he supposedly uses a higher gauge of strings to replicate the sound of the confoundingly absent bass), diving forward to the microphone to deliver each achingly heartfelt, yet banal lyric ("I will go to sleep with the light on/ Just in case you drive by," or "How's your mom?/ And are you working the same place?/ Your hair got long ... "). Then he bounds backward to punctuate each thought with a muscular midair riff. All the while, drummer Joseph Siwinski sits rock-steady behind his kit, keeping time, barely turning his gaze from its fixed point in space. Maybe Siwinski offered his services as a touring drummer after Doughman's longtime partner and friend, Don Thrasher, left him high and dry just before a scheduled Philly gig on the Number Seven Uptown tour. Doughman played solo that night at the Khyber, but not since. The two are now complimentary elements, kinetic and potential energy, histrionics and control, Mary Jane and Jack Daniels. See them while you can in a small venue, because these guys are too good not to get big soon.
-- DENNIS DICLAUDIO
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