I wanted to post a long gushing thing about the trip, but I'm still pretty fried. He's playing 8 shows this week & next in Atalnta, Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and... some others, and I went to the Atlanta gig. Woo. We drove out on about 3 hours sleep early Tuesday morning, got there in time to wait on line to get in and secure spots up front and then stand in said spots for 3 hours. Drank booze. Ate eggs. Went to the Clermont Lounge to see the careworn strippers that are apparently the big attraction of punk rock Atlanta. 3 more hours sleep and back on the road to NO. It feels like it was all a dream.
Luckily, my friend Robert recorded about an hour and a half of the show on his fancy phone. When he emails it to me I'll post the audio here.
Lotta dudes in porkpie hats at that show, there were.
The porkpie hat dudes are the one thing that kinda bothers me (not that they're not cute, but, yeah, I don't know) -
His last big tour for Mule Variations caused me to delay my move from NY to New Orleans for about 2 months, and I bootlegged the Beacon show on a big ole-fashioned DAT till my battery ran out... I am that kind of dork. I own like 12 other bootlegs. Um, yeah. So post the fancy phone!
The only thing that was at all disappointing was that I spent all this time waiting for the show to start staring at his weird percussion rig, which was congas with a kind of bouquet of horns... cowbell, truck horn, bullhorn, and maybe some disassembled trumpets and Victrola horn things that looked phenomenal. And then nobody played it. It was like a set piece.
I had a fantasy that I would cop the idea with bicycle horns, trumpet and smaller/lighter instruments and make a kind of musical hat to wear and play at Mardi Gras. I could use rubber tubing to connect the horns to a handheld bicycle pump to play them like bagpipes, and intersperse the instruments with fake lilies, which would aesthetically echo the shape. I was very tired.
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I wanted to post a long gushing thing about the trip, but I'm still pretty fried. He's playing 8 shows this week & next in Atalnta, Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and... some others, and I went to the Atlanta gig. Woo. We drove out on about 3 hours sleep early Tuesday morning, got there in time to wait on line to get in and secure spots up front and then stand in said spots for 3 hours. Drank booze. Ate eggs. Went to the Clermont Lounge to see the careworn strippers that are apparently the big attraction of punk rock Atlanta. 3 more hours sleep and back on the road to NO. It feels like it was all a dream.
Luckily, my friend Robert recorded about an hour and a half of the show on his fancy phone. When he emails it to me I'll post the audio here.
Lotta dudes in porkpie hats at that show, there were.
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His last big tour for Mule Variations caused me to delay my move from NY to New Orleans for about 2 months, and I bootlegged the Beacon show on a big ole-fashioned DAT till my battery ran out... I am that kind of dork. I own like 12 other bootlegs. Um, yeah. So post the fancy phone!
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I had a fantasy that I would cop the idea with bicycle horns, trumpet and smaller/lighter instruments and make a kind of musical hat to wear and play at Mardi Gras. I could use rubber tubing to connect the horns to a handheld bicycle pump to play them like bagpipes, and intersperse the instruments with fake lilies, which would aesthetically echo the shape. I was very tired.
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