SPOT CHECK: Distant Warning at Tonie's - June 28, 1997.
The two obvious things you can do to make your band stand out, aside from wearing socks over your genitalia or changing your name to a one-character cypher that even those fancy extended computer keyboards are incapable of reproducing, are this: 1) Do something original, or 2) Do something well.
Distant Warning, no doubt, falls into the second category and what they do well is play the sort of melodic hard rock/metal that testosterock bands like Dokken and the Scorpions and Dio played during their in-vogue period of the mid-to-late '80's. They've written 24 songs, and they play them with a lot of energy, though not revelation. Ron Bordelon has powerful vocals and knows how to work a stage, stomping around as if some really threatening bug was underfoot. You can catch them again tonight at about 9 at Jeannie's Place on Platte Avenue.