The Damned - Curtain Call
EMF - Unbelievable
The Satelliters - Where Do We Go?
Bill Ding - Apologize
Angels of Light - Sunflower’s Here to Stay
William Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man
William Shatner - Common People
Tom Waits - Ol’ 55
Volt - Testbild
Circle - Saturnus Reality
Trailer to the movie “Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls”
The Evens - On the Face of it
Roxy Music - Ladytron
The Vaticans - Hong Kong Flu
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Arms Aloft
Rebuilding the Rights of Statues - A Death Bed Song
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (by request)
Aavikko - Burmuda 3
Public Image Ltd. - Track 8
High on Fire - Ethereal
Circle Jerks - Behind the Door
Acid Eater - Top of Spot
Dee Dee King - Funky Man
Jenny Hoyston - Spell D-O-G
PJ Harvey - Grow Grow Grow
Scott Walker - Jackie
Tom Heinl - 3-Way
Johnny Dowd - Welcome Jesus
Robert Vincs - Mantra
Neurosis - To the Wind
Architecture in Helsinki - Vanishing
Bleach 03 - Samurai Jungle
Cobra Killer - Heavy Rotation
The Peter Brotzmann Sextet - Jiddle-Jaddle
On October 28, 2007 I saw a living jazz legend - and he delivered the goods. Ornette Coleman played for close to two hours and he ran the spectrum from the melodic to the “way out.” His band was hot too, their timing was mind blowing and you could feel that there were many improvisational parts written into the tunes. Even though I was extremely tired, I was captivated by the sounds and screaming between songs.
The Masonic Auditorium was packed with fans and my friend Ezra (who joined me for the show) and I heard people whisting and humming the tunes all over the streets and we walked back to his car.
Friday night, October 26, 2007 I went to Annie’s Social Club to see Joey’s band XXX - they are an X cover band and they were good. It was only their second show and it seems like they need to tighten things up a bit (or at least get someone to crank up the monitors so they can harmonize better). It was a decent show, but I was too tired to stay for the headliner: Bitchfits, an all female Misfits cover band.
Saturday October 27, 2007 my friend Mark came up from LA and we went to see the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheater. We went primarily to see Tom Waits perform with the Kronos Quartet and that was incredible. The rest of the bands/performers were cool, but not as important to us. There was Metallica, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, R. Kelly, John Mayer and Teegan & Sarah.
There were many drunk and stoned people at this event. As the night progressed, we noticed that things were starting to get ugly. People yelling at each other and guys pissing along the fence where others were walking and/or milling around. The line for coffee was longer than any of the other lines, so at least they all knew that they needed to sober up.
After the show, Mark and I wanted to get a bite to eat. It was 2:00 am so we decided to try Denny’s on Post and Laguna in Japantown. The restaurant was full of drunken people in Halloween costumes. We decided to go somewhere else when a drunk guy (who looked over 30) puked on himself and the floor while he was walking passed our table, probably on his way to the bathroom. It was bad, but what made it worse was that no one seemed to be making any move to clean up the barf on the floor near our seats. So, we went to Mel’s Diner and found more drunk people in costumes but no pukers.
Tonight I am going to see Ornette Coleman at the Masonic Auditorium - more on that later.
Phillipa Fallon - High School Drag
Opium Jukebox - Pretty Vacant
Coco Rosie - Japan
Hans Zimmer - Spider Pig
Eroc - Norderland
Lozenge - Mr. Fancypants
Mastodon - This Mortal Soil
Mord - Opus I
Burzum - Den Onde Kysten
Wold - Track 3
The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered (by request)
Osmo Whitely - Hey Jake
Jenny Hoyston - Bring Back Art
Japanther - Summer of ‘79
Volt - Chinese Bite
Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons - Blatta
Add N to (X) - Adding N to (X)
Stereo Total - Plastic
The Traditional Fools - I Got My Baby
Ariane - Ice Cream
Qui - Apartment
Demi Semi Quaver - Boy Mona Lisa
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Puppet Show
Tracy & the Plastics - Ain’t Never Gonna Die
Beth Capper - This is Love
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Bruce Haack - Incantation
Betty Davis - He Was a Big Freak
Ike & Tina - Whole Lotta Love
Circle - Black Black Never Never Land
Aaron Ross - Mississippi Burning
The Moles - The Crasher
O’Death - O-Lee-O
Lozen - Heart of Filth
Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side
I Am Spoonbender - Stopwatch Static
Numbers - Lone Life
High on Fire - Death is this Communion
Dirty Projectors - Spray Paint (the Walls)
Melvin Van Peebles - A Birth Certificate…
Public Enemy - Make it Hardcore
Macromantics - Locksmith
Dalek - Starved for Truth
Darc Mind - Fever Pitch
Slotek - Bring the Love
Robert Vincs - Sanatorium Lake
Angels of Light - Sunflower’s Here to Stay
Aaron Ross - Mama Lonely Wolf
The Vaticans - Hong Kong Flu
Jenny Hoyston - Bring Back Art
Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons - Happy Funeral
The Blow - Pile of Gold
Ike Yard - We Are One
The Dagons - Helium
P.J. Harvey - The Devil
Japanther - See Evil
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass
Qui - Willie the Pimp
Lamps - Fred Astaire
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Black Lips - Oh, Katrina
Radio Massacre International - Syd
The Beastie Boys - Cookie Puss (by request)
Acid Eater - Free
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Helpless Corpses Enactment
Travel Labyrinth - Twin God Twist
Deadbolt - Jimmy’s Grave
Numbers - Liela Mila
Captain Beefheart - Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat
Jandek - Some Other Name
Kitten on the Keys - The Pussycat Song
Alice Cooper - Generation Landslide
A Place to Bury Strangers - Missing You
Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil
Ween - The Stallion Pt. 3
Bleach 03 - Samurai Jungle
Kinski - Silent Biker Type
Thurston Moore - Silver Blue
So, I went and saw Q-Tip (formerly of A Tribe Called Quest) last night (October 10, 2007)…
I scored the only staff ticket at KUSF (which included a VIP pass!!!) and talked a couple of friends into getting tickets and we met at Little Star Pizza for dinner. The dinner, by the way, was tasty (x3).
We arrived at the club around 8:45 and one of the DJs from a KUSF cultural show called Beatsauce (I can’t remember his name now) was spinning. We found a seat on the side (it was at the Independent) and waited. My friend Ezra felt sick and decided to leave early - bummer for him. It turned out to be a really great show.
The opening act was a local hip-hop dude from Oakland - can’t recall his name off hand - who was a real crowd pleaser. He broke up a fight on the dance floor by stopping the music and telling everyone to take a deep breath. Then he went into a human beat-box bit that left us all speechless.
Q-Tip, however, stole the show. I have to admit that my expectations were quite low. I heard that Q-Tip was doing more mainstream hip-hop these days, but that was not the case. He did more Tribe Called Quest songs that I thought he would and his new stuff did not seem out of place. His band - yes, he had a real band - was hot hot hot. DJ Scratch manned the turntables (and he was mind-blowing amazing. His solo was surreal and a cornucopia of sound), and there was also a pianist, a guitarist and a bass player.
I watched Q-Tip from the VIP area (upstairs) and the guy really put his soul into the show and I left there feeling happy and satisfied.
Now I wish that I had seen A Tribe Called Quest back in the day.
I’m out.
Francis Bebey - Pygmy Divorce
Robert Vincs - Light Bomb
Osmo Whitely - Hey Jake
Ettrick - Track 1
Eppu Normaali - Kaljanulanttauslaulu
Rykarda Parasol - Candy Gold
A Place to Bury Strangers - Another Step Away
Swans - Saved
Angels of Light - Not Here/Not Now
Fugazi - Small Pox Champion
Qui - Apartment
Simple Kid - Lil’ King Kong
Shellac - End of Radio/Steady as She Goes (request)
Rodd Keith - I Died Today
The Vaticans - Out in the Streets
Sonic Youth - Reena
Jenny Hoysten - Spell D-O-G
Aavikko - Bermuda 3
Devo - Shrivel Up
Plastiscines - Losers
Circle - We Must Breathe
TTC - Dans Le Club
Beastie Boys - Stand Together
Betty Davis - Git in There
Stark Reality - Junkman’s Song
The Avengers - American in Me
Johnny Guitar - Faun Ngeo
Stereo Total - Patty Hearst
Boys Next Door - Dive Position
Lamps - Fred Astaire
The Undertaker & His Pals - Night of the Ghouls
The Simpletones - Kirsty Q
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Ossuary
Piano Magic - Not Fair
Konono 1 - Mama Na Bana
The Divine Comedy - Comme Beaucou
Steve Eto - Hot Rod Guitar
Battles - Atlas
Kinski - Boy, I was Mad
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Creature
Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People
Arthur & Yu - Absurd Heroes Manifesto
Angels of Light - We are Him
Keuhkot - Pois Zagorasta
Paul Dutton - Wolf Chant
The Team - Hyphy Juice
Riow Arai & Nongenetic - Travel the Night
Quasimoto - Greenery
Z-Trip - Sudden Death
Triclops! - Mi Plisboy
Slumber Party - So Sick
The Ponys - Another Wound
The Vaticans - Hong Kong Flu
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass
Hank IV - Crime of the Scene
The Corruptors - Red Hot Slumber
Lovely Little Girls - Wretched Substitute
Wire - I Am the Fly
Circle - Pigs in the Paper
Ezee Tiger - The Tiger Bounce
The Pleasure Kills - Smash Up the Radio
Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
Biosphere - 2
The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
The Shudders - Criminal Love
Circle X - Tender
Black Lips - I Saw a Ghost (Lean)
Metal Urbain - Lady Coca Cola
Betty Davis - He Was a Big Freak
Davie Allen & the Arrows - Blues Theme
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Roller Disco
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Avalanche
The Spits - Die Die Die
La Plebe - Runnin’
Claudia Quintet - Be Happy