Circle - Kaarre
Lack of Knowledge - The Bunker
Cheap Trick - Alo Kiddies
Liars - A Visit from Drum
Gilbert Gil - Questao de Ordem
King Khan & the Shrines - Sweet Tooth
Frustration - Waiting for the Bad Things
Andre Williams - Your Woman
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass
Psychobud - Independence Day
Appliances-SFB - Mistakes
The Hidden Cameras - Follow These Eyes
Calvin Johnson - When You are Mine
Pavement - Hit the Plane Down
The Penetrators - Lied to Me
Neil Hamburger - Three Piece Chicken Dinner
The Reaction - Torn in Two
Guns Are For Kids - Cockroach Killer
Boris - Flower Sun Rain
Gene Ammons - Seed Shack
Presto - Street Sport
Cool Kids - Black Mags
TTC - Dans le Club
Raashan Ahmad - City Feel Proud
A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
Cephas & Wiggins - Richmond Blues
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Alice Cooper - Generation Landslide
Tuxedomoon - Dizzy
The Crowd - Modern Machine
Martin & Shaw - Ratlebag Jimmy
Atman - Lullaby for Rainbow Warrior
Sir Alice - Te Souviens Tu de Toi?
Gilberto Gil - Ele E Eu
Jean Le Fennec - L’ Abandon
Yelle - Tristesse/Jolie
Frustration - As They Say
Germs - Manimal
Thee Oh Sees - The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending
Free Kitten - Sway
Reaction - It’s About Time
Screaming’ Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
Andre Williams - Can’t Take ‘Em Off
Surf Punks - My Wave
The Bell Rays - Coming Down
Christine Pilzer - Ah-Hem-Ha-Uh-Err
No Age - Teen Creeps
Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You
King Khan & the Shrines - I Wanna Be a Girl
Chow Nasty - Ungawa
X-Ray Spex - Oh! Bondage Up Yours
Appliances-SFB - Mistakes
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Ween - Zoloft
Ladytron - Season of Illusions
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Maus Haus - Radio Dials Die
Black Dice - The Raven
Quitzow - Sponsor (It Didn’t Mean a Thing)
Tickley Feather - Fancy Walking
Psychic Paramount - Interior 17
Teacher’s Pet - Hooked on You
Sump Pumps - Project Celebrity
We March - Take Over the Reins
Gang of Four - If I Could Keep it for Myself
Von Sudenfed - Flederhaus Can’t Get It
Boris - Laser Beam
Sepultura - Godless
Pleasure Kills - Smash Up the Radio
Black Francis - The Seus
Fire Room - Slag
I saw Mr. Stan Ridgway last night at the Great American Music Hall in foggy San Francisco. He was the front man of Wall of Voodoo in the 1980s, and he performed a great many songs from that era. And you know something, it was good. I mean, I like some of his solo stuff and I dug WOV when I was a kid, but Stan Ridgway is a superb performer and he really put himself out there.
The opening act was the fabulous Penelope Houston and she is always wonderful to see live. I am going to see her in her other band, the Avengers, on July 26th at the Fillmore. Penelope looks great and is writing great songs after all these years (unlike Jello Biafra). I bought her new CD and had the opportunity to see her up close - but I was too shy to chat with her.
All and all it was a good show. The crowd was cool too. Now I have to go to work and I’m really tired. Poor Stevil.
Our Brother the Native - Rejoice
Brigitte Bardot - Contact
Herb Diamante - Polish
The Satelliters - Where Do We Go?
The Greenhornes - There is an End
Maus Haus - Tumbling
Drums & Tuba - Bertone
Flight of the Conchords - It’s Business Time
James Brown - There Was a Time
Akrobatick - Beast Mode
J-Live - The Zone
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
Ladytron - I’m Not Scared
Uske Orchestra - La Lechuza (Pour Itsu et Jarnini)
Jarboe/Justin K. Broderick - I Want to I’ve Got to
Death in June - Forever Loves Decay
Rank & File - Sundown
King Khan & the Shrines - I Wanna be a Girl
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Appliances-SFB - Neo-Fascist
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
Cheap Time - Too Late
Frustration - Brothers
Stan Ridgway - Knife & Fork
Quitzow - Peanut
The Blow - Pile of Gold
Tickley Feather - Fancy Walking
Konono No. 1 - Masikuu
Tuxedomoon - Still Small Voice
Weird Weeds - A Goose
Devo - Shrivel Up
Experimental Dental School - Your Tearz are My Ice Cream
Entertainment - Romance in a Rain
Einsturzende Naubauten - Weil Weil Weil
Thee Oh Sees - Block of Ice
Bum-Kon - Giving In
The Reaction - It’s About Time
Frantix - Car
Eppu Normaali - Oi Maa
Captain Beefheart - Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat
The Flying Luttenbachers - Trauma 2
Spires That in the Sunset Rise - Morning Song
Jarboe/Justin K. Broderick - I’m Here to Believe
Jeremy Jay - Till We Meet Again
Nick Drake - Poor Boy
Zolar X - Timeless
The Flying Luttenbachers - Trauma 5
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Today’s Lesson
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Lost Picking Flowers in the Woods
Bruce Haack - War
Matmos - Polychords
Le Tigre - Don’t Drink Poison
Quitzow - Sponsor (It Didn’t Mean a Thing)
Teacher’s Pet - Teenage Suicide
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
My Dad is Dead - Nothing Special
Death in June - Let Go
Grant Hart - Let Go
Tuxedomoon - Wading Into Love
Cramps - Human Fly
Johnny Dowd - Hope You Don’t Mind
Free Kitten - Erected Girl
Ladytron - I’m Not Scared
Rykarda Parasol - Candy Gold
Colin Newman - I’ve Waited Ages
Volker Kriegel - Zoom
Kimya Dawson - I Will Never Forget
Frustration - As They Say
Appliances-SFB - Bob Hope
The Gossip - Coal to Diamonds
Blanketship & Gulfus - Sad Clown
Idiot Flesh - Diggity Cow and the Dandy Mr. Clyde
Black Francis - I Sent Away
X - Nausea
Petra Haden - I Can See For Miles
Boris - Laser Beam
Lori Freeman & Scott Thomson - Leak
I just got home from a surreal and crazy show at the Hemlock Tavern in SF. The opener was 60 Watt Kid, and I have never seen them, or heard them - but they are apparently from SF. It was some weird, hallucinogenic drugged out shit. I don’t know how to describe it, except that you just have to see it to experience the freakiness of it. It was just two dudes and they made tripped out music and did freaky, neurotic dances and movements; weird, but good weird.
Next was a video artist/poet named Bryan Lewis Saunders. His act was completely messed up and bordered on psychotic. He tells stories with his poems and videos, but it’s not happy Hollywood types of stories, it’s intense and hard reality tales of tortured animals, prison life and asphyxiation thrill seekers. It was some thought provoking, wake-up-calling and psycho-analysis-needing perspectives on the world; also weird, but not necessarily good weird. Intense.
The next act was Captain Ahab. Now that was something completely different. I have seen this act before and knew what to expect: Pre-recorded music played from a computer with mixers, a dude on vocals and another dude dancing in his underwear. It was the audience that was different this time. They were so into the act. Many of the men in the audience took off their shirts and danced like crazy to the tunes. There was at least one guy on ecstasy (perhaps more). It was mayhem from start to finish.
After that, I couldn’t stay for the last act, Battlehooch. Sorry Battlehooch, I was too fried from the opening acts to make it through one more. I’ll catch you next time.
Crass - Sentiment (White Feathers)
Avengers - The American in Me
Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle
Gil Scot Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Ossie Davis - The Meaning of the 4th of July
Melvin Van Peebles - A Birth Certificate
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Consolidated - Meat Kills
Patti Smith - Free Money
Akrobatik - Black Hell Breaks Loose
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
Public Enemy - Make it Hardcore
J-Live - Be No Slave
The Dirtbombs - Indivisible
Appliances-SFB - Neo-Fascist
Frustration - As They Say
The Reaction - Torn in Two
Wire - 23 Years Too Late
Ladytron - Ghosts
Teacher’s Pet - Little Arthur
My Bloody Valentine - Gone
Apollonia Heck - God Only Knows
Swervedriver - Feel So Real
Crystal Castles - Tell Me What to Swallow
Free Kitten - Erected Girl
Blankekship & Qulfus - Mr. Baby Postman
Slotek - Bring the Love
Macromantics - Locksmith
Lady Sovereign - My England
Bom Kon - Giving In
Snake & Jet’s Amazing Bullit Band - Part Time
We March - Take The Reins
Quitzow - Sponsor (It Didn’t Mean a Thing)
Tickley Feather - Python
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lazarus Dig Yourself
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deanna (acoustic)
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Bruce Haack - War
Miles Davis - All Blues
Biosphere - Novelty Waves
IQU/Miranda July - Girls on Dates
Islaja - Melodi/Melodica
The Vaticans - Hong Kong Flu
Black Francis - I Sent Away
Cheap Time - Too Late
The Penetrators - Lied to Me
Demolition Doll Rods - Baby Say Unh!
Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays - Back to Detroit
Teacher’s Pet - Little Arthur
Appliances-SFB - Mistakes
Frustration - Waiting for the Bad Things
Bum-Kon - Fighting Yourself
Swans - Saved
Death in June - Forever Loves Decay
Bauhaus - St. Vitus Dance
Ben Vaughn - That’s How I Got to Menphis
Neil Hamburger - At Least I Was Paid
No Age - Miner
Pagans - She’s a Cadaver
Times New Viking - Come Together
Messer Chups - Chasing for Young Blood
Add N to (X) - Sheez Mine
Pink Skull - Itchy Woman
Blanketship & Qulfus - Heaven Must Have Sent You
Chris Joss - You’ve Been Spiked
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey Cocorosie - Japan Larsen - The Sinking of the Lusitania Dragon or Emperor - Fast Apache ESG - I’d Do it for You Quitzow - Sponsor (It Didn’t Mean a Thing) Entertainment - Flesh! Crystal Castles - Alice Practice Frustration - As They Say Thailand - Dawn in the Trenches We March - Teacher Mother (Secret Lover) The Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle The Reaction - Track 2 Sump Pumps - Famous Last Words The Bell Rays - Pinball City Bum-Kon - Giving In Black Eyes & Neck Ties - New Womb Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer The Damned - Anti-Pope T.S.O.L. - World War III Be Your Own Pet - Zombie Graveyard Party Teacher’s Pet - Teenage Suicide Electric Eels - Agitated Times New Viking - RIP Allegory Jonathan Richman - When We Refuse to Suffer Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Creature Cranes - Avenue A Jarboe & Justin K. Broderick - I Want to I’ve Got to Degenerate Art Ensemble - Blackened Crow Miles Davis - Blue in Green Tuxedomoon - Dizzy Arrington De Dionyso - Paper Fire Raven Baby Luie Luie - Touch of Light Tom Waits - Fish in the Jailhouse The Dirtbombs - Indivisible (request) Cheap Trick - Gonna Raise Hell Weird War - Mental Poisoning Ween - Someday Thee Oh Sees - Block of Ice Lori Freedman & Scott Thomson - Leak