3 ½ hours of driving and we (Me and Walter) arrive at the Virgin Mega Store just in time to watch WAS start late for their performance. There is a good crowd there. I have to say only 1/10th of these people are here because they just happened to wonder into the store at the right/wrong time. A brief introduction and they’re off and rocking away. The PA system was subpar or maybe the poor acoustics of the Virgin Mega Store made the singer Keith Murray sound strained, but other than that they were solid. Well at least until the bass and vocals cut out mid song. The drummer Micheal Trapper continued with the song like a champ while bassist Chris Cain gave the sound board guy the “WTF? look”. Scrapping the loss of momentum of the song Keith and Micheal explained why the rest of the song wasn’t really worth the time it would have taken to complete playing due to poor song writing. I agree. They played 3 more songs and called it a night. They were tight and sounded like the album for the most part. Their album “With Love and Squalor” has many strong points, the strongest being the J.D. Salinger reference, but of all the strong points it fails in the replay value. An album full of singles that are just passable as catchy. It makes you bounce around while it’s playing but after you get 5 tracks deep you begin to think you’ve heard this song already or maybe heard this song a hundred times before– it’s all very textbook. The live performance was worth the 3 ½ hour drive and the LA scenery made it even more worthwhile.