Come along and join the club that's made for you and me
by Brian LaRue

The other evening, we were sitting alone at home, thinking about The Ramones. About how The Ramones were more than a band - they were a club. A club the audience was invited to join. Not every band that is like that is necessarily great. But when it happens, it's special.

The Limit have a club too, for those who don't want to be Battlecats. The Limit's unbridled enthusiasm convincingly proclaims a badassitude. Listeners are made to feel that they are awesome simply for being there. South of Martini's and one-night before the Battlecats, they're having their own "Jingle Jam" Dec. 22 at Daniel Street along with The Ivory Bills (that's James Velvet and friends in electrified rock'n'roll mode), Christian Marrone (ex-Junky Hunks, Your Face), Phil Conine (Puzzle People, Frequence Hospital, Nor I) and Pope Joe. In a recent phone chat, The Limit's perpetually positive singer/guitarist Mark Daniel enthused that "we've developed into this band that we've always wanted to be." He feels that, musically, they've finally reconciled "the '70s and late '60s stuff with the early '90s stuff." The Limit's upcoming CD was recorded at a studio housed in a castle in upstate New York. A castle. "We put the drums in this big cathedral room," Daniel says.

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