The Upper Crust

Opening night of RRSC's fifth annual Revolution Scooter Rally, Fri., Oct. 3, 11 p.m., $15, J.C. Dobbs, 304 South St., myspace.com/jcdobbslive. The rally runs Oct. 3-5, rabblerousersc.org.

by A.D. Amorosi

Rock/Fop

Jay Elliott (CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VERSION)

I'm not quite sure why guys and gals in Philly who buy, fix and ride vintage scooters love The Upper Crust enough that the Rabble Rouser Scooter Club has made that band the headliner for its Rally party opening night three years running. Then again, I don't know why Los Angelino Mexican boys love Morrissey. Life is a mystery. What can be said is that the crotchety power pop quartet dress like colonial Whig mannequins in powdered wigs with high stockings, painted birthmarks and other turn of the (18th) century vestments. And that they play a brand of what they call "Rocque and Roll" that's hardly upper (unless you count its Darkness-like singing) but certainly crusty. Philadelphia's not-so-pomped glam metal outfit Live Not on Evil opens the show. Vroom.

Opening night of RRSC's fifth annual Revolution Scooter Rally, Fri., Oct. 3, 11 p.m., $15, J.C. Dobbs, 304 South St., myspace.com/jcdobbslive. The rally runs Oct. 3-5, rabblerousersc.org.