Seattle locals The Hands released a CD unto the world on Friday and a mere four fifths of Neumos could not contain the crowd that turned out to witness the event. No! Midway through the first opening band's set the velvet curtain was lifted to allow the accumulated dirty rocking masses full access to the Neumos floor.

The CD title is The Hands and we haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but it seems to contain a bunch of songs from a previous Hands CD we have called So Sweet, but where So Sweet brought to mind the Stones, The Hands had us seeing visions of CCR. It's a woodsy stew of growls and guitars which is exactly what we've been looking for from these guys since we first stumbled across them playing a parking lot in Georgetown this past summer. You can take the band out of Olympia, but...

The house was packed, the openers whipped the air into a frothy mix of sweat and spaz rock (particularly the Whoremoans...man, that was awesome) and The Hands delivered a rocking CD via an energetic Last Local Show Ever Before They Go to SXSW and Get Stolen Away From Us Before We Even Really Knew Them And/Or Move To Brooklyn. Across the street something was happening at the Comet on Friday and the brand new King Cobra was open for business and for once that corner of 10th and Pike lived up to its aspirations as the epicenter of something.