Heavy Young Heathens is a Los Angeles band that is comprised of two brothers, Aron Mardo on bass and Robert Mardo on drums.  Aron was dressed with a headband as usual, a leather jacket, clear sunglasses and major chops down to his chin.  He has the vibe of a 60's rocker and the music itself is rocking psychedelic influenced, complete with matching images projected behind them.  Robert on the other hand was dressed in a tie and vest, though sported decent chops himself.

There are always the questionable expectations of a two man band, but they came on fairly strong to start and followed through the rest of the show.  The Theremin was used to give the music some more psychedelic flare.  Both sang which helped extend the limits of their two person configuration.  The second song was much more interesting and following this Aron asked for the crowd to let him know where they were at and received a pathetic reply.  He shouted back that was good for Wisconsin and after the next crowd cheer said that was good for leisure world, then received an okay, but still not great response on the third crowd cry.  At the time there were five in front of the stage, people sitting and the usual opener shy group of people farther back in the room.  They had even formed single file horizontal lines in the front of this mass which seemed oddly orderly.

After this Aron went on the keyboard which gave the music a boost in dynamics.  As well as they were proving they could make a full sound with two people, one more person on keyboard would probably help things a lot.  The following song had their la la las which are found in some form on more than couple of their songs.  The keyboard use was continued, but on a part where it should have carried the song, the volume was too low for it to effectively do so.  Aron let us know the next song was his favorite of the new album and dedicated it to Dead Confederate to thank them for having them, but then asked his brother, "What's the song called?"  Laughing, I did not catch the name called back to him.

After a song with a fun tempo change and a drum solo mid song, Aron turned around to smoke something, or at least smoke came out around him briefly.  He then called out for everyone to clap and said, "I wanna see wedding rings.  I want to know who to go for first."  He proceeded to get more crowd participation by having everyone repeat him which including the line, "I want my money back!"  He introduced his brother Robert after the song who then went on acoustic guitar for a song which was a little more alternative than psychedelic rock.  There was an unfortunate use of rhyming "you" and "you", but otherwise it was a not a bad song.  At this point where Robert did more than drumming, their attire was revealed to reflect their personal musical styles.

Aron's joking and groovy confident nature gave the band good personality.  At the end after playing a Johnny Cash cover, Folsom Prison Blues, he said he wanted to meet each and every one of us.  Sure enough they were waiting right by the door with merchandise in hand.  They previously mentioned they would throw in a CD for those behind the times who purchase vinyl.  It was a tempting offer, but even such a generous offer is often let go in these tough times.  Still, they put on a good show.  What really holds up their music when there are no strong musical hooks is the singing, which is fine, but selfishly I still would like them to add another member to fill things out.