acid mothers temple - may 7 @ bottom of the hill
me and tommi walked in to the first band, je suis france, playing some kind of indie rock jangle. i was like what the fuck are these guys doing opening for AMT and what's with the 9 guys on stage, especially the two who are just tossing a football back and forth? well the next two songs were much better, essentially one chord krautrock drones with lots of percussion and effects and shit, kind of like early stereolab a lil' bit.
the second band was called the antarticans, and they were from LA, and i was like, since when do dirgy doom emo experimental bands come out of Los Angeles. they were pretty cool, all instrumental, a lot of the songs were in 3/4 time. a bit repetitive, but i dug it.
acid mothers temple was totally what i expected, pretty much the same show as the last time i saw them, i think it was even the same drummer, as it was their basic quartet. they played pretty much a bunch of improv noise rock things, and a couple of their more melodic jams, like pink lady lemonade, of which they were conveniently selling on a cd that night, and oh what a shit load of merch did they have for sale! fucking unreasonable, i thought $60 would cover my AMT merch needs, but noooo! they had a 4cd box set for $40 that i had to pass up, lame! anyway, we ended up buying this month's new cd, the afrirampo collaboration, and the live cd with the two melodic jams. i also bought the newest cd by the antarticans, whose main guy was very humble and meek about pushing their music on me, as i said, well which do you recommend, which one is your newest one? at this point i figured fuck it, i might as well get something by the first band too, who had like ten different cdr eps all spread out on their section of the merch table. so i ask the dude standing there, like which should i get, i liked the last two songs. so like all these eps are like 2 for $5, so he points out two, and i'm, ok, whatever, $5, can't beat that i guess. plus they was from atlanta, so i figured why not support these weirdos, normal looking weirdos as it was, but whatever. anyways, the highlight for us was how cool the guys from AMT were, both the bass player and the synth guy were there selling stuff and they were super cool and shook our hands and such, way cool. and i must say, firms handshakes at that.
so we're gonna see the fall on sunday, which should be even more fucking awesome since the guitarist, bass player, and drummer all just quit and flew back to england. should be completely fucking rad, as he's hired some dudes from some other band on the same U.S. label. i'm excited-uh...
the second band was called the antarticans, and they were from LA, and i was like, since when do dirgy doom emo experimental bands come out of Los Angeles. they were pretty cool, all instrumental, a lot of the songs were in 3/4 time. a bit repetitive, but i dug it.
acid mothers temple was totally what i expected, pretty much the same show as the last time i saw them, i think it was even the same drummer, as it was their basic quartet. they played pretty much a bunch of improv noise rock things, and a couple of their more melodic jams, like pink lady lemonade, of which they were conveniently selling on a cd that night, and oh what a shit load of merch did they have for sale! fucking unreasonable, i thought $60 would cover my AMT merch needs, but noooo! they had a 4cd box set for $40 that i had to pass up, lame! anyway, we ended up buying this month's new cd, the afrirampo collaboration, and the live cd with the two melodic jams. i also bought the newest cd by the antarticans, whose main guy was very humble and meek about pushing their music on me, as i said, well which do you recommend, which one is your newest one? at this point i figured fuck it, i might as well get something by the first band too, who had like ten different cdr eps all spread out on their section of the merch table. so i ask the dude standing there, like which should i get, i liked the last two songs. so like all these eps are like 2 for $5, so he points out two, and i'm, ok, whatever, $5, can't beat that i guess. plus they was from atlanta, so i figured why not support these weirdos, normal looking weirdos as it was, but whatever. anyways, the highlight for us was how cool the guys from AMT were, both the bass player and the synth guy were there selling stuff and they were super cool and shook our hands and such, way cool. and i must say, firms handshakes at that.
so we're gonna see the fall on sunday, which should be even more fucking awesome since the guitarist, bass player, and drummer all just quit and flew back to england. should be completely fucking rad, as he's hired some dudes from some other band on the same U.S. label. i'm excited-uh...
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