John Powhida Show / Nash Kato (2-Aug-2009, Toad, Cambridge, Mass.)
Dropped in at Toad Sunday night (2-Aug-2009) to see the first installment of an August residency by John Powhida (of John Powhida International Airport, and, before that, the Rudds). His special guest was Nash Kato, who had been one of the two leads of Urge Overkill.
Powhida played guitar, and had a bass player and sax player; he ran beats on a small Yamaha keyboard. The set was largely re-arranged Rudds songs (from the first album: “Downtown Freddie Brown”; “Rock World”; “Oh, Delila”) — for the most part, the rearrangements were cheeky and good. Powhida was in incredible voice. He said that upcoming episodes would have two versions of his International Airport, and then at the end, he claimed, a Rudds reunion.
Nash Kato came on. He was gaunt as ever but looked healthy. He played a twelve string, pretty roughly: He apologized for his strained guitar playing claiming he had been at a “kibbutz in Connecticut” for two months, without guitar, iPod, etc. Sounds like a dry-out, but who knows. He had some trouble remembering his songs, but, as it happened, Powhida knew them all, and helped out: Kato seemed very grateful. Kato kept referring to Powhida as “John Rudd,” which was either obtuse or cute, I’m not sure which; Powhida got him back later in the show by calling him Nash Urge. The high point of the songs where they both played was a cover of Todd Rundgren’s “Couldn’t I Just Tell You,” which was basically Powhida’s version: Nash couldn’t really keep up.
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thanx man, it was a weird and wonderful nite.