Fellow Popdoser Ed Murray and I ducked down to Boston’s Paradise to check out the Von Bondies (above: rhythm guitarist Marcie Bolen’s set list that Ed stole for me, knowing that I’m an incorrigible ephemera accumulator), a band known more for lead singer Jason Stollsteimer’s dustup with fellow Motor City Madman Jack White that led to White’s pleading guilty to assault and battery charges than for the band’s actual tuneage.

The Bondies’ then-current, now-former rhythm guitarist and background singer, Marcie Bolen, allegedly was romantically involved with White for a time–which has led to unconfirmed speculation that it could have been at least part of the reason he and Stollsteimer came to blows, although testimony in a later, unrelated federal case revealed that White may have been upset over Stollsteimer’s comments in an article about White’s production of the Bondies’ early recordings.

Fans of the television show Rescue Me will recognize the Bondies’ song “C’Mon C’Mon,” an edited version of which was used for its theme. The band performed it on Letterman before Bolen left the band:

Some phone company had sponsored the free show, and Ed and never did figure out what “VIP” privileges our being on “the guest list” actually entailed, but we got on it anyway just in case. (more…)