Concert Review: Walker Lukens Is The Millennial Eric Clapton

Walker Lukens might be the Millennial Eric Clapton. With his glasses and guitar, he mashed rock and psychedelic funk like a child would mash through his plate of food. For him, his instruments were like novelties to explore, and with his band backing him through each sonic kick like a karate class, the Webster Hall crowd let loose.

I love psychedelic rock. I might actually state my love for psych-rock in every other review because this genres rubs your mind and body with oils of strange, guitar chords. Watching the crowd dance and clap as if life were a drug they had taken before they entered The Studio was enthralling. As Millennials, our generation is stuck between our love for future tech and vintage relics. We have the newest iPhones, and wear fashions from the early 1920’s just to go to the grocery store. Thus, seeing an audience dance dream like they were at the first Monterrey Pop festival was exciting, and made Walker Lukens have an Eric Clapton vibe; as if he was the freshest talent to discover rock n roll with some funkadelic fusions stirs in people a dreamy state. There was one point in his concert, in which he just delves into every guttural noise his guitar and voice box could make. He yelled, screeched, cooed, and pulsed vocal notes that had no words, but said everything about his voice’s power. He has a classic-rock voice in which a voice felt porous like a coral reef sifting and keeping sea-foam in the same way human do their frustration. Experimental rock delves into the mind of stress, while rock n’ roll got straight for it heart. Lukens keeps his heart in his voice, and uses his guitar to pierce through people’s thoughts with a laser of fun. Thus, if you want a a good, rock n’roll time consider Walker Lukens, of whom you can learn more about by Clicking Here.