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Dec. 15th, 2005
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Dec. 15th, 2005 10:33 pmfinally i'm getting around to trying to catch up with some of the music video the Mr. ICS (IX?) has been shooting my way. i felt the pressure mount when i opened the mailbox today to find it all full of Skinny Puppy and Cocteau Twins bootlegs, i figure it was time to catch up with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Bill Bruford.
SGM... wow. i liked everything i heard from them way back when Alex recommended them to me a few years back, but i never really followed them seriously. they're like Tom Waits + Godflesh + Einstürzende Neubauten + Fantomas + Thinking Plague and i dunno what else. with an equation like that, they really ought to be my favorite band in the whole world. they're probably hovering somewhere near Crash Worship status on the testosterone--meter, though... good thing they have the hottie chick singer/instrumentalist to offset all that sheer, heaving manliness. the lead singer guy's facial-hair-extravaganza IS highly suspect, however. he's a hippie-goth Rob Zombie. i think he had a pierced uvula.
man, those crowds in Jacksonville, Florida just can't shut the fuck UP, can they?
i don't get why people pay to get into a concert, then talk to their friends very, very loudly throughout the show, paying no attention to the performers. don't get it, never will. buy the shirt and then go to the bar across the street you darned loudmouths.
the DVD glitched out after about half an hour of SGM fun, so we fucked off to the Bill Bruford DVD, which we almost gave up on, since the first three menu items had no sound at all. luckily everything worked for the David Torn "Cloud About Mercury" performance, which was quite entertaining, even though i have never much cared for the CD of the same name. i'm not sure exactly what i liked about the performance, since it's such complete fusion wankery, but it did hold our attention for a while. caerie loved the Miami Vice drums! i wonder if those little hexagonal pads only had the one set of sounds back then. Bruford starts rocking those, and i expect David Torn to step up and say "Ladies and gentlemen... JAN HAMMER!!" he really wouldn't have been that out of place, either. caerie wondered what Mark Isham was playing at one point, the long, skinny little instrument... a piccolo trumpet?? with four valves? anyone? me, i was taken aback by what a ponce Mick Karn is, i don't think i've ever seen him play on video before. that is one dude who is convinced of his coolness. he's a believer. the full-band sound has that curious '80's sheen to it, but it's also tonally indeterminate, with Torn's guitar being all twang-bar and early digital pitch-shifting, and Karn's fretless bass which never seems to hit quite the right note, and Ishams slurred, weird melody lines. yeah, they're a bunch of wankers, but entertaining wankers! i bet Howard Moon would've liked the show.
SGM though. i should oughta get me one of their record albums.
maybe i should get a few new "neo-prog" "avant-prog?" (or whatever you call it) albums and rock out for a while. i haven't been in much of a proggy music mood for the last... year?
Miles Davis too, i've been rockin' to "On The Corner" for the last week and wondering why in the hell i don't have more of his stuff. he rocks MUCHO ass. i've long loved "Bitch's Brew", i probably should get my own copy rather than borrowing other people's copies for extended periods of time.
SGM... wow. i liked everything i heard from them way back when Alex recommended them to me a few years back, but i never really followed them seriously. they're like Tom Waits + Godflesh + Einstürzende Neubauten + Fantomas + Thinking Plague and i dunno what else. with an equation like that, they really ought to be my favorite band in the whole world. they're probably hovering somewhere near Crash Worship status on the testosterone--meter, though... good thing they have the hottie chick singer/instrumentalist to offset all that sheer, heaving manliness. the lead singer guy's facial-hair-extravaganza IS highly suspect, however. he's a hippie-goth Rob Zombie. i think he had a pierced uvula.
man, those crowds in Jacksonville, Florida just can't shut the fuck UP, can they?
i don't get why people pay to get into a concert, then talk to their friends very, very loudly throughout the show, paying no attention to the performers. don't get it, never will. buy the shirt and then go to the bar across the street you darned loudmouths.
the DVD glitched out after about half an hour of SGM fun, so we fucked off to the Bill Bruford DVD, which we almost gave up on, since the first three menu items had no sound at all. luckily everything worked for the David Torn "Cloud About Mercury" performance, which was quite entertaining, even though i have never much cared for the CD of the same name. i'm not sure exactly what i liked about the performance, since it's such complete fusion wankery, but it did hold our attention for a while. caerie loved the Miami Vice drums! i wonder if those little hexagonal pads only had the one set of sounds back then. Bruford starts rocking those, and i expect David Torn to step up and say "Ladies and gentlemen... JAN HAMMER!!" he really wouldn't have been that out of place, either. caerie wondered what Mark Isham was playing at one point, the long, skinny little instrument... a piccolo trumpet?? with four valves? anyone? me, i was taken aback by what a ponce Mick Karn is, i don't think i've ever seen him play on video before. that is one dude who is convinced of his coolness. he's a believer. the full-band sound has that curious '80's sheen to it, but it's also tonally indeterminate, with Torn's guitar being all twang-bar and early digital pitch-shifting, and Karn's fretless bass which never seems to hit quite the right note, and Ishams slurred, weird melody lines. yeah, they're a bunch of wankers, but entertaining wankers! i bet Howard Moon would've liked the show.
SGM though. i should oughta get me one of their record albums.
maybe i should get a few new "
Miles Davis too, i've been rockin' to "On The Corner" for the last week and wondering why in the hell i don't have more of his stuff. he rocks MUCHO ass. i've long loved "Bitch's Brew", i probably should get my own copy rather than borrowing other people's copies for extended periods of time.