The Old Main

*******Best New/Emerging Band: The Old Main********
"Sure, The Old Main is just a few years young, but it's the melting point of three venerated musical lives: Rod Lacy (ex-Weldon), Zoltan Szekely (ex-Rakes of Mallow) and Mojo Atzberger (ex-Atomic Love Medicine). Roots rock is ageless."
"The Old Main is the best of both worlds: reflective lyrics and potent music. These guys have taken the most candid ideas and turned them into a complete and well-delivered package. Music should always be this real." --Rachel Heisler, pitchperfectreviews.com
"Their entire set is well written, played and thought out...This music is awesome and has been sorely missed in this scene." --Michael "The Butcher" Nielsen, Random Live Review
"I've never seen a band come into the KUNM studio, set up so quickly and rock so passionately and as seamlessly as The Old Main...This band has a fire lit under them!"--Matthew Finch host of 89.9fm KUNM "Ear to the Ground"
Thus began part one of The Old Main's featured performance recorded live in-studio at Albuquerque's college radio station on the University of New Mexico campus. At the recording session the band was urged to perform as much material as they could and to stop only when they exhausted their repertoire. The band was less than 10 months old and played original material for an incredible two full hours. They didn't just deliver quantity--it was such great material that, complete with interviews and editing, ran on the air for two weeks. Based in the greatest state in the union, the state of New Mexico, this "Trio on the Rio" is a big block V-8 firing on all cylinders and running on all the essential elements of a finely tuned rock and roll machine--passion, execution, swagger, style and confidence. As a songwriter Rod Lacy (guitar/vocals) dives to that dark and often ignored place hidden deep in the human heart, exploring the complexity, ferocity and sadness of the ordinary man, the working man...the modern man. From addiction and incarceration to humility and hope, Lacy paints using every color in the box with unusual candor and poise. Of course, growing up in a working poor family in a mobile home at an old coal mining camp was an essential part of what has become The Old Main sound--work hard, keep it simple and don't ever try and bullshit your way through anything. The Old Main's origins lie in a post 9-11 Albuquerque music scene where each member was involved in completely different projects. Mojo Atzberger (drums) was in a politically charged Native American jam/rock band while Zoltan Szekely (Bass) was a then-mowhawked guitar player in an experimental Gypsy folk/jazz band (the first in a now popular genrescene in the Duke City). Lacy was the singer/songwriter/guitarist in his first band--an alternative country band that had a tendency during live shows to somehow shift from twang to BANG! erupting into Nirvana-esque madness. The three were in very different bands that shared plenty of stages together in Albuquerque's eclectic downtown music scene. Just six weeks after their first rehearsal in the fall of 2006, the band booked its first show in a hundred year old saloon in Socorro, New Mexico. Since then the trio has recorded an album, has another one written and played over one hundred shows from Madrid, NM to Las Vegas, NV, and is ranked as a Top Artist in New Mexico on the MySpace.com charts (based on total profile views and song plays). All this in it's first year alone. These days the city of Albuquerque is always buzzing--with the spotlight shining on the growing movie industry and the great amount of musical talent coming out of the Duke City, The Old Main is definitely on the right track and coming along right on time!
--Doug Gribble, "Yellow Front Magazine"
The Old Main Live 10/19/07 at Ralli's 4th Street Pub in Albuquerque--"Mother Nature's Gunn"...video courtesy of Onawa Lacy
"Young Faith Healer/Image Adjust" Video--!!!GRAPHIC CONTENT!!! Do not watch if you do not value the fragility of human life...