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Quintron and Miss Pussycat
@ Creepy Crawl, St. Louis, MO
7/26/06

Way back when Quintron’s Are You Ready For an Organ Solo? came out in 2003 on 3.1.G./Rhinestone, I’ve been looking for a chance to catch Quintron and his partner in crime Miss Pussycat. That chance arrived at the new location of St. Louis’ venerable punk establishment Creepy Crawl; a place that clearly hasn’t been lived in enough yet and looks closer to a supped-up frat house basement than a legit club.

After the extremely strange and, well, bad Harry Merry singing about moody bus drivers in Germany, Quintron and Miss Pussycat started off the evening with a ten-minute puppet show. The puppet show was about a magical forest that burnt down then seeds were planted, a magical tree grew, told a puppet to take in all the stray cats, start a band, then Satan showed up and tried to chop down the tree after killing a raccoon, but then Satan was killed – or something like that. While amusing, there were certainly many in the alcohol separated crowd (just like STL pizza and toasted ravioli – terrible!) who worried that the electro-dance mindfuck of Quintron wouldn’t actually launch during the puppet show.

Yet, sure enough Quintron came out in white-on-white and soon joined by Miss Pussycat in a white doll’s outfit – ready to blast off. At some point early on Quintron admitted to being from the northern suburb of Florissant (I like to pronounce it ‘Fluorescent’), so this was in essence a home game though his home has been the flooded NOLA for some years. With a somewhat hidden array of effects and keyboards, Quintron and Miss Pussycat powered through an hour-long set that was punctuated by songs from Are You Ready For an Organ Solo?, and aided by continuing to maintain that this was their last song. Slightly dirty sounding, Quintron and Miss Pussycat packed the energy to get the small crowd moving, even those in the non-music-intelligista camp. I only have a couple of Quintron records, and the Frog album I completely put out of my memory, so I can only confirm the playing of their best song “Place Unknown” where Quintron repeatedly sang the words ‘Creve Coeur’ (an affluent western suburb in STL), the rocker “Mud Bugs,” and, I think, “Underwater Dance Club.” You don’t really need to know the songs or words to get down to Quintron and Miss Pussycat. A solid show overall, clearly experiencing them in a packed club in a major city like NYC, and on drugs, would help take things over the top.