From The Noise:
THREE DAY THRESHOLD
Hi-n-Dry/Pub Records
Lost in Belgium
16-song CD
Three Day Threshold is not quite the archetypal American rock band (is there such a beast?). But they are a model of what rock is (forgive me) all about. It actually took me quite a while to realize that, just as businessmen pretend to be kind to improve their business prospects, so rock musicians act loutish, and for much the same reason. Because rock musicians aren't about affirming death (well, most of them aren't)—they're all about laughing at its significance. Now, recording a live album of intrinsically American songs before an audience of Belgians and Dutchmen may seem like a bonehead move, but it's actually brilliant, and I'm sure the Russian Formalist Yury Tynyanov would concur. Old Yuri laid down some boss riffs of his own, including this gem: namely, that an art form evolves by exploring and then exploding "the principles underlying the relationship between the individual utterance and a prevailing complex of norms." Translated into non-gibberish, this means that a good rock band would be content with a faithful impersonation of "Folsom Prison Blues," but a great one would personify the whole genre of prison ditties in one idiosyncratic performance of a classic. Listen to the Bobby Fuller Four, to Johnny Cash, to Lou Reed, and then to Three Day Threshold, and you can almost literally see the lines of connection. Or just listen to "Gone Part 2" and you'll hear the throbbing pulse of rock 'n' roll and be able to read there an entire rulebook of the form. (Francis DiMenno)
THREE DAY THRESHOLD
All ages show @Rock Off Main Street
The Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick MA
10/24/08
Now wait a minute—Three Day Threshold is no high school band. Tonight they've been specially invited to spruce up the night with their cow-tippin' brand of kickin' country punk. Lead singer/ guitarist/ banjoist Kier Byrnes proves why his band has been asked to play all over the world (Belgium and Honduras recently) with his pro antics and his ability to work a young crowd, leaving them feeling like they've experienced something they'll talk about for a long time. During the show Kier offers an awkward comment about his bassist, Johnny Stump—"He hasn't fell over in one song… yet"—then tries to make up for it by saying, "John is good looking… and it's a good thing he remembered to put in his dentures." Kier usually works up his audience by having them repeat "no shit" in one song. But this young crowd is a little self-conscious about the language, so Kier changes the words to "gosh darn it." The highlight of the set comes when Kier invites three kids on stage to play cowbells on the final song "Honky Tonk Woman." The kids love it.
from Shitenonions.com
Three Day Threshold: Lost in Belgium
'Lost in Belgium' is a warts 'n all live document of Boston based Country/Celtic punks, Three Day Threshold, recent tour of Europe's low countries. Recorded over 2 nights on 2 stereo mics set up in the same corner of the same club, this is raw, un-dubbed, no frills Rock'n'Roll - "Live and Dangerous" this ain't*. I would say the best way to experience 3DT is live in person but if you can't get the opportunity to see 'em live then 'Lost in Belgium' will give you a taste of the experience.
*Thin Lizzy's classic but heavily overdubbed in the studio "live album".