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By Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times
Published: February 28, 2021, 6:00am
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Seattle rockers Ayron Jones, left, and Eva Walker of The Black Tones, shown here at Jimi Hendrix Park in Seattle last year, both have support from Seattle musical heavy hitters. (Steve Ringman/Seattle Times/TNS)
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SEATTLE — It was a one-in, one-out situation at the Capitol Hill Elysian Brewing. The capacity crowd packed into the cozy brewpub to revel in two complementary things Seattle has always done well — craft beer and loud guitars.
Thunderpussy was yet to release its debut album, but had already achieved local buzz band status when Elysian tapped the ’70s rock revivalists to help christen a charitable new brew in 2017. In typical Thunderpussy fashion, frontwoman Molly Sides commanded the makeshift stage like a limber rock ‘n’ roll contortionist, howling over Whitney Petty’s revving guitars that seemed loud enough to blow the nearby fermenters. Whether he couldn’t get in or simply found the best sightlines for scoping Petty’s pedal board, some yahoo outside the glass window behind them was rocking out on Pike Street.