Steve Wynn & the Miracle Three never play the same song remotely the same way twice. Yet they are an extraordinarily tight band playing extraordinarily terse, lyrically-driven noir rock songs. There’s never been anyone like this and there probably won’t be again. Guitar duels are their speciality, Wynn and lead guitarist Jason Victor wrestling with the most evil tonalities they can conjure.

Perhaps to compensate for the substantial amount of Wynn back catalog that’s currently out of print, there’s a vast amount of spectacularly good live stuff online. Wynn’s own site is currently streaming an amazing full-length concert with the Dragon Bridge Orchestra; there are also over forty (40) incredible shows featuring both Wynn solo and with the Dream Syndicate at archive.org. That’s not even counting what’s on youtube. And keep your ears peeled for an upcoming Steve Wynn appearance on NPR’s World Café on Nov 20.

Saturday afternoon was the kick-off to the new Euclid Records series of live performances to be turned into 7-inch singles for the benefit of the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. A hearty crowd turned out to catch Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 in what was a perfect display of rock & roll fun, energy, and pure pleasure.

In town to play a private party the night before and a public gig at Off Broadway Saturday night, Wynn and his mates were completely in the groove Saturday afternoon. Sticking mostly to songs from their last band album, "Tick . . . Tick . . . Tick," Wynn and the Miracle 3 demonstrated their tight ensemble sound, with the ability to crank the songs up into exhilarating bursts of declarative guitar melodies. Victor is a much stronger guitarist than Wynn, but the two of them have worked up some nice interlocking, sometimes improvisatory parts. In fact, when they ended with a long take on the Dream Syndicate classic "John Coltrane Stereo Blues," they managed to evoke at times such San Francisco 60s luminaries as Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the 1970s brilliance of Television.