August 2008
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Sorry it took so long for us to post these, but umm…yeah here they are:
All Points West Day 1:
“Did you ever see that Family Matters where they go to court and they all go ‘No no no no no no no no no.’”
All Points West Day 2:
“It was really a Yellow Ledbetter moment.”
And as an added bonus, my book reader of the day. I’d also like to say sorry to this girl who must have thought I was the biggest creep in the world just staring at her on the ground, but honestly I was just trying to read the book title, it was kind of faded:
All Points West Day 2:
Here are my texts to adam during the day
Text 1: “The white chick laying on her beach towel during animal collective reading Existentialism and Human Entines“
Text 2: “My bad. The book is Existentialism and Human Emotions”
Which I think just makes me a bigger loser.
If anyone wants any of these concerts that we recorded and posted here in lossless format let me know. I am currently seeding Radiohead’s saturday night set and the Vaselines set in flac format on thetradersden.org.
Radiohead 2008-08-09:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?p=955286
Vaselines 2008-07-09:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63016
It’s free to sign up, and there doesn’t seem to be a member limit like on dimeadozen, so if anyone is looking for losslesswavrockin (I’m so so sorry for that but I couldn’t resist), head on over to TTD. I think I might post the daniel johnston show soon there too. Just for the hell of it.
Track List:
1. Reckoner
2. 15 Step
3. National Anthem
4. Kid A
5. All I Need
6. Nude
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. Where I End and You Begin
9. The Gloaming
10. Faust Arp
11. No Surprises
12. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
13. The Bends
14. Bangers and Mash
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Exit Music (for a film)
17. Bodysnatchers
First Encore:
18. Pyramid Song
19. Videotape (False Start)
20. Videotape
21. Airbag
22. Fake Plastic Trees
23. There There
Second Encore:
24. House of Cards
25. Planet Telex
26. Idioteque
Sorry for the shitty quality, but it’s an audience recording. I’m sure there will be a better one out there soon. You can hear some people talking. Sometimes it’s me. I have to tell my friend Thom Yorke’s name at one point, that might be on there. Some girl talks to me at one point, hard to believe but true. Maybe there is actually a recorded account of that happening. Probably not. Only one way to find out:
enjoi
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NCTCDXRO
Set:
1. 15 Step
2. There There
3. Morning Bell
4. All I Need
5. Lucky
6. Nude
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. The Gloaming
9. Optimistic
10. Videotape
11. Reckoner
12. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
13. You And Whose Army?
14. Idioteque
15. Climbing Up The Walls
16. Bodysnatchers
17. How To Disappear Completely
Encore 1:
18. House of Cards
19. Pyramid Song
20. Paranoid Android
21. Dollars & Cents
22. Street Spirit (fade out)
ENCORE 2:
23. Cymbal Rush
24. Just
25. Everything In Its Right Place
Enjoi
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xtf4kv
Let me start off with a story:
When I was 9 I was walking to my grandmothers house with my mom. She doesn’t live very far, just one town over: go down a hill, right, right, up a hill, left, STOP, there. On one of the side streets, about 1/4 of the way down the block, I saw a gold bracelet. Just sitting there. It was impossible to miss, it was shining like the Ark in Raiders. I went over, picked it up, and brought it with me. It’s been sitting in a drawer ever since.
My neighbors are moving and are selling everything, including jewelry, so they told my mom that if she had anything she wanted to sell to come over. I gave her the bracelet to hock; it was in pretty shitty condition anyway and I was hoping for a nice $10 profit after 16 (holy fuck) years.
While walking around All Points West: Day 2, Johnny Tigs Solo Adventure into the Realm of the Damned I gave my mom a call. She told me she was able to sell the bracelet for 145 bucks.
So I bought a $35 Radiohead shirt.
Yes I am wearing it now.
Now for my review of All Points West: Day 2
I purchased one of the best cups of lemonade I have ever had from the lemonade cart near the Blue Comet stage, in between the VIP entrance and the Stage. Two guys and one woman, not much older than myself, were working behind the cart. The guys were making the drinks and the woman was taking money. The lemonade consisted of Ice, Sugar, Water and fresh squeezed lemons, big surprise right? There was about 90% ice in the cup, a very small amount of sugar, 2 squeezed lemons and just enough water so that when you tried to drink it, you had to tip it, but not so much that the ice would fall all over you. Before I tried it I was annoyed at the $4 price tag, but it really brought the day together and 10% of that $4 goes to helping people from a new jersey asylum find a home.
After spending far too much on a shirt made from recycled plastic bottles I decided I needed another lemonade. This stand was in between the Big merch tent, and the Queen of the Valley stage. I should have known something was going to go wrong since they did not give any of their $4 to help jersey asylumites. There was a younger kid working behind the cart, a woman who was overseeing what he was doing, and a woman working the hotdog cart next to them who seemed to be friends with them all. The recipe was essentially the same, but only one squeezed lemon was used, and it was 90% water instead of ice. I was hoping for this cup of lemonade to rejuvenate me again, to pat me on the back and say, “It’s OK, a lot of people bought shirts for that much, and payed 50 bucks extra for a VIP ticket that did absolutely fucking nothing. It’ll be OK, I promise.” Instead it was like someone spitting in my face…after they just ate a lemon, a single lemon.
Before posting the Radiohead show, which I will do soon, I want to edit it some and issue a warning: it is a terrible recording. The sound ranged from awful to godawful for a while. The speakers sounded like they were fading in and out at times, as if there was only enough power to run one side of the stages speakers and each side was fighting for it constantly. I also started in a bad space, moved around A LOT, there is a lot of talking, I sat down during one song. All of this can be summed up by saying Adam wasn’t there, so I was lazy about it all. People smoking, bumming hits, cursing, vomiting, Manny Ramirez sightings and much more when I upload it later. Some of the songs came out well, I’m assuming, but this boot is more about the colorful people around me throughout the show than the show itself. But I have to do some homework first. Before you start ripping me for that, remember the immortal words of Marge Simpson: “Bart, don’t make fun of grad students. They’ve just made a terrible life choice.”
Goals for tonight:
1) Edit the Radiohead show from tonight
2) Make a track listing
3) Write review of All Points West Day 1 for ShortWave
Actualities:
1) Posting the show as a whole, including the first few mins that is just Adam and myself making fun of Thom Yorke. Sorry. Those mins could have been used at the end when my damn MP3 player died during the last song (Everything in it’s Right Place)
2) I will, after tomorrow’s APW and taping, edit both shows and post them again with full track listings and all…but I’m beat.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w6vxn1
The recording is an audience recording, so don’t expect anything great. The bass flys off some times. I’m sure I screwed some other stuff up.
Anyway, till next time
Enjoi
Day 3
King Khan and the BBQ Show
K-Holes
Red Dawn II
Crypt Records 25th Anniversary
Santo’s Parts Place is a 3 level club owned by Andrew WK. The show was advertised as $10, but when we got there the slew of bouncers and hip girls with clipboards told us it was only 10 if we RSVPed and it was actually $15. What a cheap trick Andrew WK. Fucking asshole should burn in hell. The only bathrooms in the entire place are in the basement and the ladies room lights were dead. A lot of drunk girls had to piss in the dark Monday night. The main floor where bands play is pretty cool. There are speakers lining the walls and Mike said it was like the back of McShanes station wagon. King Khan made the same joke, only about Snoog Dogg’s probably nicer car than a station wagon, but…you never know. What with the video DJ? The regular music DJ was very good, Back from the Grave and the like. The first band I thought was called CHUD II but I think they are called Red Dawn II. Allison the drummer is from Awesome Color and maybe the other guy was too, I forget. They get points for being noisy but still not that interesting. Not really the place for them. The next band was the K-Holes. They sounded like a Cramps cover band and the chicks in the band even look like they were at one time part of the Cramps scene. I would have liked them if they went somewhere with their songs, but they all seemed to fall pretty flat. OK enough bitching and let’s get to King Khan.
It took forever for them to get out, but they finally did. BBQ sat down, got his right foot ready on the snare and tamborine, left foot ready on the bass drum, hands ready on the guitar and mic close enough for his angel voice. I forget what King Khan was wearing, but it was gone after a few songs anyway. This club was not really the place for King Khan, I think they would have been better setting up on the floor with us. Their set was awesome, but the sound sucked- mostly just the vocals. Not impressed by the zillions of speakers, Andrew. King Khan plays with two tiny amps and you can’t mic them through your $234987 PA system? King Khan was manic as usual. It’s hard for me to imagine him ever simply hanging out. A quiet night for him is probably gutting a chicken and practicing throwing knives at his wife on one of those spinning boards. Well, whatever the hell that meant- it was an awesome set by one of the best live bands, but it was at the wrong place. Between songs all you heard from downstairs AND UPSTAIRS was mmmCHAmmmCHAmmmCHA. Pretty disgusting for a Crypt Records 25th Anniversary.
Picture-Thanks Alexadan
Day 2
Sunday, August 3, 2008
McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint
Tall Firs
King Khan and His Shrines
Deerhunter
Black Lips
McCarren Park is a very cool place to see a show. Free, an empty chipped up pool, slip n slide, dodgeball, and beer. The show wasn’t loud enough, but my ears may have been split open from the night before at Monotonix. I still have a high pitched fuzz that comes when the traffic gets just soft enough on my block. It was hot, so Mike, Evelyn and I did what any sane person should do, run the slip n slide a few times and drink some beers. The Tall Firs were first and they were very boring. Soon enough, the shrines were out there, from what I gather, a collective Euro band with French Germans and whoever else he’s friends with. Each wore all black with big gold necklaces. We waited a few and then King Khan came out in a cape, silver hat and necklaces with shrimp on them. This was the first of his costumes for the show. He wore a blue helmet later and even a KKK hood while he goose-stepped around stage.
The only way to describe the Shrines show is if you saw the stooges fronted by James Brown. Something like that. Here’s what King Khan did- all in a 45 or so minute set:
Banana food fight with audience and band
Ripped out all the insides of a pillow or two
Ripped apart a SPIN magazine a page at a time
Made out with magazine pictures
Told the audience to throw trash at him
Got hit in balls with something hard
Called out the kid who did it and had him come on stage and shoved a banana in his face
All the time singing and dancing and jumping on the crowd. Great show.
Next up was Deerhunter so as the masses crowded the stage we decided to play dodgeball. We got there and the fascists wouldn’t let me play in flip flops so I put myself out there and walked around asking my fellow man for a pair of shoes to play in. No luck. Fucking hipsters and their bright shoes. So I waited for Mike to play and took his way-too-big-for-me shoes and flopped into the pen for dodgeball, all the time deerhunter boring the crowd with whiny love songs (I only imagine- I really have no idea). I couldn’t understand their drone. I got one person out in dodgeball but then was hit with 2 balls at the same time. The bastards were gunning for me! If I had played during the King Khan set there is no doubt I would have taken down the entire other team myself, but nope, I had blah blah blah deerhunter for my inspiration, which was only fitting for my walk to the sidelines after being pegged out.
This is getting long so I will only mention one thing that sums up the entire Black Lips set: chiwawa solo!
Awesome day.
(Once again I steal images- if you are upset tell me- thanks Life’s Bathroom and thanks Alexadan)
Saturday, August 2. To start the 3 day concert series, Evelyn, Mike, Jo and I ventured out to Brooklyn to see the crazy Tel-Avivians Monotonix. The place was called the Bodega, and it looked like just that from the outside. Inside the place was gutted and some nice graffiti covered the walls. The money was how it should be. $5. Free newcastles for an hour. We managed 4 each while we hung out in the basement, reliving our incense drenched days of middle school. (at least I did) Fiasco went on first and made some noise, but I was a little disappointed. They weren’t noisy enough. And I knew what was coming, so they hardly had a chance from the start. I tried, I really tried. A couple 2.50 buds later and Monotonix was all ready.
The hairy little frontman Ami Shalev started the show by screaming down this girl’s throat and picking her up and tossing her on the crowd. It took a single smash of the drums and the ceiling was covered in beer. The scene was what their myspace genre says: Jungle. Only it was more like a jungle getting a shower of napalm while natives ran in circles tearing their clothes off. It is very hard to describe in words. See picture below. I am the one in the blue shirt with my hand on the singer’s wrist. The second picture is Mike in a black shirt pushing up the trashcan. The best part of Monotonix is obviously their stage performance. The music is great, (fuck all you Brooklyn vegan commenters) but live is why people go to see them. Of course, the best part is when they play above the crowd. Mike helped pick the singer up in a trashcan while the drummer sat on his bass drum, all the time screaming and banging and ruling the world. The long trainride home to the Bronx was spent wringing out our shirts of beer and trying very hard to think of any show we’ve ever been to that topped that one.
Go to his site for more pics, it is awesome.
more awesome photos
here
Here it is: #2
Last night at Andrew WKs dance party house Santos Party House for King Khan and BBQ show, a guy behind us to his girlfriend when the opening band the K-Holes walked on stage.
“they’ve got a female bassist. that’s a rare breed.”
then evelyn said: “it’s not even rare to be a female bassist named Kim”
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