Zebra/Anything But Human @ Sony Hall, New York, NY 3/1/26
Bill: Zebra/Anything But Human
Venue: Sony Hall, 235 W 46 St., New York, NY
Date: Sunday 3/1/26
Door: $55 (had a free pair from DoNYC)
9pm Zebra
Active: 1975 (Long Island, NY via New Orleans, LA)
Latest Releae: IV (Frontiers, 2003)
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Active: 2019 (Dallas, TX)
Latest Release: "Life" (Anything But Human, 2025)
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Zebra are doing 50th anniversary dates and coupled with getting a free pair of tickets, no time like the present to finally check them out. I really only know their first record which I wrote about a couple years back on the other blog. My friend Kenny had said they were good and when I heard "Who's Behind The Door" I instantly remembered it from 1983 more so than "Tell Me What You Want" and Kenny's favorite "Bears." Those songs seem like established hits now when they were played.
Even though they had their debut hit album came out in 1983 at the dawn of hair metal, this is more a straight Led Zeppelin inspired rock band founded in the mid-70's that cut it's teeth for years in New Orleans before gaining club traction in Long Island, then finally getting their shot which sold well. Encoring with "Stairway To Heaven" (the Zeppelin, not the Neil Sedaka one) gave a nod to this. When you hear someone break this out, it better and good and for these guys it made sense given thieir lineage.
Anything But Human are a Dallas commercial "modern rock" band. It kinda sounds like Stone Temple Pilots stripped of anything artful or Creed. This stuff isn't my bag. Somebody told us on the way in that they had a great "Eleanor Rigby" cover which they indeed played along those lines. Kenny thought the guitarist was possibly a session guy that played for Venom, but it was proven that he was just his doppelganger. You never know who gets hired for what. They noted that they charted Billboard's Rock Indicator Chart, but 7 years in, they still sound like a band hoping to get a "deal." Maybe they will, maybe they won't there is lots of competition, but it seems like they've been getting slots on the touring circuit. They are trying to establish themselves with digital singles for what remains of the commercial rock radio market. This is different from Zebra sloggin 8 years through club mainstream circuits to get where they got.
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