Crowbar to provide stage for Moon Boot Lover's lunar landing

"My costume is low-budget, but it gets the point across," he said. "Most of those old sci-fi movies were low-budget anyway."

Prince created the character of Moon Boot Lover and illustrates the covers of its albums with this fictitious comic book character. He said he wanted the CDs to be like comic editions.

"That way people could say, 'Oh, I don't have the third edition,' instead of the name of the album."

Prince said that the costume might have something to do with what he liked when he was younger, "Personally, I was influenced by KISS," he said.

Also, the space theme works with Prince's music, which he likes to classify as "rocket soul."

"It's part rock, part soul, the ET is that extra thang . . . extraterrestrial." He continued, "I really don't want to pigeonhole us."

Moon Boot Lover mixes many different styles, Prince said the band include R&B, rock, soul and psychedelic styles in its music. Prince is the main creative source of the band, with Nate Edgar on bass and Mike Dunkle on drums.

Fans can be prepared for an intense high-energy live show from the band.

"People should expect to feel some sort of body movement in the shoulders, then it comes down, and feels real groovy," Prince said with a laugh. "We have a good time and that translates to the audience. It turns out to be a good little formula, people get into it."

Being interested in music as a teen, Prince started playing guitar with small local bands.

"I remember looking at guitarists like Hendrix or Santana, and you say, 'oh, that's what it's about.'"

Then he started writing songs, and as he said, the years have gone by.

"I got bit by the bug," he said.

Prince explained that playing guitar is important to him, "You lock yourself into it, it becomes a part of the sanity. You miss it if it's not there."

Prince has been compared to big names in music, such as Jimi Hendrix on guitar and his voice to Al Green. But, Prince's reply to being compared to influential artists was that of humbleness.

"I mean, those are some big boots to fill," he said. "People try to come up with something they recognize, to classify your music. People have to understand the energy behind the music, if you start with the energy and the spirit, the spirit behind it makes a difference."

Opening the show for Moon Boot Lover is Baltimore natives, Lake Trout.

"Be prepared to get rocked or something like that," said Lake Trout's guitarist Ed Harris about the show. Harris and the rest of the band have been working hard to write songs for its upcoming album Another One Lost, which will be released sometime in April.

Lake Trout is changing its direction from its previous jam band style, to a more direct rock approach.

"We are going in a rock direction right now," Harris said. "I am listening to more songwriter's than guitarists."

He said the band has been listening to artists such as Weezer, Nirvana and The Flaming Lips for inspirations.

"They are still influenced by the sample-repetition thing of jam music. That's just sort of what's coming out," said Harris.

The band formed in 1996, the members were all in and out of different bands, and Lake Trout is the end result, Harris said.

The band's name remains a mystery, "I am gonna start claiming the Fifth Amendment," Harris said. " It has to do with Baltimore." Harris said a typical show for Lake Trout could start out dark and melancholy and beautiful, to hard and gut wrenching.

"It's all over the place, there are vocals and instrumentals. It's improvisational, but in a group way."