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More cultural whiplash occurred when Tel Aviv-based Boom Pam took the stage. They looked kind of like a rock trio, with a tuba player instead of a bassist. He started out wearing a suit, while the guitarist wore dress pants and a sleeveless undershirt, and the shirtless drummer had on a Mexican wrestling mask — perhaps an homage to Los Straitjackets, who share Boom Pam’s affinity for surf music, if not the Mediterranean and Jewish influences.
Drummer Itamar Levi, who looked to be about 18 when he took his mask off, wailed away with punk intensity, no matter what the rhythm. Both swift-fingered Uri Brauner Kinrot, on an aqua Stratocaster, and mighty tuba player Yuval “Tubi” Zolotov handled melodic lines as well as rhythm. Most of the numbers were instrumentals, and Boom Pam’s Dick Dale cover was undoubtedly the only tune anybody recognized, but their energy and improbably successful mashing of genres kept the audience fully engaged. They seemed like the perfect band for a wedding where the bride and groom wanted to appease family members with disparate tastes, and keep all the guests dancing to avoid potential discord among incompatible in-laws.

timdicarlo wrote:Any idea what kind of equipment the tuba player is using? Looks sort of like a PT-something-or-other, but I'm no authority on these matters.