I like elephants. I mean, what’s not to like? They’re big, they have awesome, prehensile noses and they remember everything. I bet they never even have to have passwords sent to them when logging into websites on subsequent visits. But, you know what? I don’t think I’ve ever cheered for an elephant.

Enter Cheers Elephant.

O.K., I don’t actually know if we are cheering for the elephant or just toasting to its health, but that doesn’t matter. All of these elephantine complications will quickly escape your mind at The Note as you jump up and shake your cheer maker at the Cheers Elephant show on the 23rd.

I predict this raucous, brain-erasing motion will begin about 5 measures into their first song. I can make this kind of prediction with confidence because my cats are currently watching me shake my cheer maker to “Dharma” and ”Mr. Marvelous” and “Here We Are” and thanking their felinic stars that I’m not an elephant. These Cheers Elephant guys really know their way around a rock song.

They call their grooves psychedelic/rock/folk. I call them part classic 4-man British band rock, a la Beatles and Stones, and part jammy Phish funkadelic. But that’s only because I’m really uncreative and horrible at coming up with musical group analogies. The grooves move, the melodies carry, the harmonies complement and the lyrics speak. These guys are fun with a capital “Holey rusted metal, Batman, why haven’t I ever been to a Cheers Elephant show before?!” That’s all you need to know.

Plain and simple, it’s winter. It’s cold. It’s oppressive. You need a reason to get out and shake all you have medical clearance to shake in order to forget your Seasonal Affective Disorder, if only just for an evening. You wouldn’t think a band with “elephant” in their name would make you forget, but they will. Now go. Cheers!

Saturday, January 23, 2010, 9 p.m.
Cheers Elephant w/ The Lawsuits, & The Levee Drivers
@ The Note, 142 E Market St, West Chester, PA 19382
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