The Geomatic Attic opened up their new season with fantastic, sold out show by Ontario psychedelic rock/ country band The Sadies, Monday, Sept. 
18. I arrived in the middle of the show in time to hear a couple familiar songs from a few years back and a variety of new music from their new CD “Northern Passages.”
They played a strong, loud set of sad songs, featuring a range of styles embracing country music, psychedelic rock, lightning quick Chet Atkins style instrumentals.
Guitarist/ vocalists Dallas and Travis Good sang haunting harmonies, who made the band sound like they were haunted by the ghost of Gram Parsons throughout most of the set, and tapped into the essence of the Everly Brothers and the Byrds in others.
They played a variety of ’50s and ’60s style rock and roll and country music including pop, rock and roll and even a Reverend Horton Heat style rockabilly number.
Travis Good set down one of several battered, well worn Gretschs to play some finger shredding fiddle on a track which showed the brothers’ roots growing up with bluegrass and roots music in the household of the renown Good Brothers.
They played an enrapturing set of trippy music showing impressive musicianship.
At the end, Travis and Dallas got close and dialled in on a riff together, and played each others’ guitars, which drew a standing ovation from the sold out crowd.
After a quick break, they returned for three more songs and received another standing ovation.
