Cheese, Ricotta, Feta & Brie Jr. swing hard

Comic lounge singer Richard Cheese and his ace trio Lounge Against The Machine played their first Phoenix concert even though Cheese grew up in Phoenix. The rotating stage was fixed meaning that the "full house" was about 1/4 of the venue sectioned off.Cheese songs are often 1-2 minute snippets, so the evening went fast and covered Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg, Radiohead, Pussycat Dolls, 2 Live Crew, System Of A Down, Chicago, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and TV theme songs. There were impressions of Michael McDonald and Bjork which were hilarious. No Green Day, Guns N Roses or Alanis Morrissette - my votes if I could make requests.Cheese is great when he works the audience (from what I gather listening to his CD's, the breast jokes were way down). His parents were in the audience and introduced as Mr. & Mrs. Cheese! Dad got an early Father's Day gift delivered.The joke, though, on anyone who thinks he is just a novelty act, is how hard the band swings. Bobby Ricotta played great piano all night, drummer Frank Feta and upright bassist Gordon Brie Jr. swung hard and shadowed Dick expertly. Brie is a new Brie on loan from Brian Setzer's band. ***1/2 out of ****