Category: happy tooth

Category: happy tooth

whatever I do it’s right

October 4th, 2007

ok so I’m starting this post with the intention of it being a long post, so bear with me it might be a long post, but to keep things clear the thesis of the first part of the post is that HEALTH FUCKING ROCKS

Yesterday, I was recording Yea Big and Kid Static for Airplay - they are also amazing, incidentally - and when they were hyping their upcoming show, they mentioned a band called Health, which triggered something in my memory because I guess I downloaded their album a while ago, and anyway this whole chain of events led me to Reggie’s Live tonight.

The website said the show started at 8, so I got there at 8:45… and was the first person there! and the only person there until 9! and the first band didn’t go on until 9:45! But anyway I am kind of used to being early/alone (to shows I mean in life I am generally late/alone) and the story is not about me, nor is it about the first band who did boring dance-punk/synth-pop and fucking sucked and if that wasn’t their first show ever then I hope it’s their last ahahaha BOOYA. Ok, they weren’t that bad but they were fricking bush league and I thought up that line and didn’t want to waste it.

Yea Big and Kid Static were up next and totally slew, it was much better to see them when I am not the sole audience member, the amount of enthusiasm I can show is woefully inadequate. The penultimate act was Crime Novels, a fun burst of noisy-hardcorey-shouting into a telephone and running into the crowd. I approve.

The three tiny LA-hip dudes who I assumed were HEALTH were, plus some long-haired, bearded metal dude on drums who started things off by beating the crap out of the drums for a warm-up vocal chant. Each non-drummer had a guitar (two guitars and one bass guitar) and a little briefcase of pedals, and it was cool when they started off playing some jagged guitar stuff, but the best moment of the whole night was when they all simultaneously threw off the guitars, dropped to their pedal cases, and turned their effected mics on, pointing them at amps and screaming and everything exploded in ring modulated feedback. The whole set ruled, the drummer kept hittin those drums real hard, in complex rhythms that are hard to headbang to (those are the best kind), while the rest of the guys made all sorts of noise. Overall it was amazing, they totally blew me away.

On an unrelated note, on the way home I stopped to buy some pop, and this is the receipt that came with my 24 pack of Diet Coke:

According to my fly new stapler, which is the closest thing I have to a ruler in my room, the receipt is about 10.5″ x 3″, like a third of a sheet of letter paper. It just seems like kind of a ridiculous amount of paperwork for a single item, that’s all.

who wants to go to this:
http://www.chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8590
I just saw the lineup and am seriously considering a trip to the great city of Detroit…

I left out some stuff I was going to write, so this post’s not that long, and to tell the truth I didn’t even finish last night, it’s actually tonight now, and I wrote everything that happened last night as if it had happened tonight, but it didn’t, tonight did.

ta ta for now

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