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FIRST OF ALL THIS IS LATE AND I DIDNT SEARCH TO FIND IF ANYONE ELSE HAD STARTED A THREAD....
I havent posted in a year or two and have lost my account info for "Marcus Collar" and "uhsowhatsthedealwithspikejonezeh?" two old lame accounts...
anyway
OCTOBER 1ST SUNDAY FILMORE sanf fran...
HOLY SHIT.,,,,,
ok first off thank you 16 bitch pile up......erase errata (sp?) this was the first time I have seen E E without the older members and just the bass drums and the wonderful lead now playing guitar...as usual great energy from the drummer and the same desperate stance from the bass ...god what is her name she always seems to be falling over yet in control and always changing gears for the madness that unfolds in EE's set. they played some classics and there was some great crowd banter about the bassist...and how everyone loved her......
ok on to SY...
First off last time SY was in SF some asswipe stole Thurstons guitar strap and as well the same guy pulled T-dog into the crowd. Ok im sure i posted about that years ago somewhere.... so just as the rok gods took the stage some freaking curly haired smelly hippie yelled "what happened to jim!" I was like "what a dick" ....,,,
holy shit it never fails why are people so lame ...I mean did this kid not see MARK IBOLD...jesus why do people dwell in the very distant past....as well im glad they busted out with 2 songs from daydream as an opener...
Kim was a goddess in her shiny silver......
Mark Ibold had a strange display of condiments and im sure a condom (look for photos of this online some where im sure) on his stack......it seemed like we had extended jams for most of the night.....the back drop which seemed at first to be a crude patchwork of white consecutive cubes in tower formation.....eventually became abstract screens for SY's incredible video projection show.....not that I could take my eyes off thurston or kim but at some point the abstract screens displayed shots of some sort of prozac pill throught a water glass as well as airplane shots of suburban landscapes.....it really made me feel like this band was really exploring the small stage space they had been alotted, not because of limits or even stance
but because of the challenges the past few years has posed on thier band...... like the rude kid stated before the set even stared "what happened to jim"...I feel they answered that maybe in the first minutes and quickly rolled past that into what seemed to be a pure expression as well as an artistic nudge to an old horse named Ibold...Thurston twice or maybe thrice switched insturments with Ibold...a sort of pavement gag....MArk even broke a string laughing it off to Thurston's ever vigilant guitar tech......
it was a great night.....stage presentation was great, the lineup was a perfect pairing making we wish I could see the upcoming nightmare before X-mas Thurston is presenting....
a few great moments from the night: Lee stealing stage by playing his latest "rats"...which to me seemed a great expression of the overworked and underapreciated artist that is Lee Reynaldo....
also to contrast the last time SY played filmore and the dumb ass stole Thurstons strap....this time around during a a jam thurtston let several mebers of this audience smack and even play his guitar....so no incident and no stolen strap thank you Sanf Fran maybe next time we'll get the classic 3 night Fillmore run from SY....
ok I take all this too serious.....thank you Lee, Mark, Kim, Thurston, and Steve....oh and your various crew and tech guys......you all rok
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