"Some were getting irritated, " he concedes, and he couldn't afford to lose them: The business depends on workers in Montana who carve the maple bass-neck and those in California who shape and paint the bodies.
As its name suggests, opening act Does It Offend You, Yeah? doesn't take itself terribly seriously: The British electro-rock band infuses its ambitious and chaotic music with bass slaps, cowbells, and signifiers of '80s pop, not to mention healthy doses of electronic screeching.