“Some things are just to big to be seen with the human eye
Like a newborn universe
The rules we’ve built our cage of
And your mother”
Masterful ChatGPT user Ryan Christopher Parks somehow someway finds time between submitting hilarious AI prompts to also write and record some of the best rock & roll beating out of the Bay. Parks is the bandleader and songwriter for B. Hamilton, which last month released Saigon Market, containing four songs each specifically a vignette about life in Oakland.
We wrote about another B. Hamilton EP earlier this year, noting how the poetry seems to pours forth so easily, and the same holds true here. The lyrics above come from “Things I Learned at the Anti-Gentrification Bake Sale,” the only song here that starts out simple with voice and acoustic guitar before building into a full band jam. The rest of the work is just like that, mostly countrified classic rock jams, though even venturing into some slick blend of glam and yacht rock on the opener “Martin Eden Written Left-Handed in Crayon.”
Read more about the EP on East Bay Express.
For more from B. Hamilton, check out On a Borrowed Guitar in Jack London Square.
