Thee Sonomatics don't come out too often. This, coupled with their surfin' in Dorchester Bay garage sound, made them a perfect primer for the Prime Movers. Gotta love a show where the audience has a pent-up need to see the bands.

This happened at the Prime Movers show at the Burren in Somerville. The band hadn't played a show in years. Their last, 2006 disc, is stuffed with Boston Garage rock shoulda, woulda, coulda beens. For these songs to see the low light of a Friday night club gig was just what they needed.

Prime Movers kicked the show off with the ripped title track "Back in Line" from the aforementioned disk. It is a fantastic forgotten lost local slab that gathered grit and sweat live. These guys have a lineage that would cause ancestry.com to crash.

For Cam Ackland (emphatic V and H), Dick Tate (on coupe de Gtr and background V), Dennis McCarthy (sending subliminal signals on Drums), and Greg Steinbaugh (on smooth, slippery, Bass) it was a chance to remind people of what they missed. The full-boat crowd was on board for a singalong dance cruise. They tied the night up with some big-time covers of "Shake Some Action", "Midnight to Six" and "I Got a Line on You".

Come back for a visit anytime. Count it in prime - 2,3,... 2,3,5,7!