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8/22/2004
DEGENERATES ABROAD
Chattanooga and the World’s Longest Yard Sale:
http://www.degeneratepress.com/travel/longest_yard_sale_2004
EAR PLUGS
It’s the return of degenerate KH:
do no forget to add Oct. 1st when the legendary Gibby Haynes a.k.a. Mr. Butthole
Surfer himself will be performing at The Echo....see you there..oh yes isn't it
nice to see the Facade of John Kerry starting to fall to pieces!!!!!yeah!!!!!
Degenerate KH
In other news, we headed to Earthlink Live on Saturday night. I hadn’t been in
the building since I was something like 9 years old back when it was Academy
Theater. It’s a pretty nice venue. The show we caught was general admission so
you had your choice of poking around for a seat or standing on the floor. Most
of the seats offer a good view of the stage. The drinks are reasonably priced
($5 cocktails) and there is no smoking in the auditorium, so I was pleasantly
surprised with the venue.
The first opening act, who’s name I don’t recall, sounded like a few Buddhist
monks chanting inside a while as it sung out through the seas. An interesting
sound at first, but half an hour later it was about as interesting as a dial
tone. The next act went from serene monotone to anarchistic energy, attacking
their instruments and producing completely random racket. If you’re into noise,
rather than music, look up whoever opened for Sonic Youth last weekend for
yourself. I was so disinterested I don’t even have the energy to look it up
myself.
Sonic Youth came on to a sold out house. Such a long-standing yet influential
act drew a wide range of ages, from recent converts to aging music geeks and
drooling fanatics (and a few people who were clearly dragged to the show or were
there because they were told it was the place to be.) They cranked out a mix of
spacey noise and punky rock but leaned a bit too much toward the droney end for
my tastes. Perhaps age, or the tail end of a long US tour, are getting to them.
They wrapped up with twenty minutes of sound generated by dragging their
instruments across the stage, beating on them, jumping on them, etc. My vote for
Most Spinal Tap Like Moment came when one of the guitarists strapped on an
accordion, then used it like a slide to play guitar. But that wasn’t generating
enough racket so he started picking up various things on the stage, like guitar
stands and such, and holding them under his arm and draping them over his
shoulder so that pretty soon he looked more like an overburdened roadie than
someone who was actually trying to produce sound.
Sunday we hit The Earl for Dunch where Mike Geier’s Gusto act covered random
tunes with his marvelous voice while Monkey Zuma wandered about at random
handing out bananas and random toys. A fun afternoon, making the weekend seem
just a bit longer.
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