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stage lights fade up on the debut of SY's newly customized amplifiers with newly woven navajo blankets bearing each member's symbol from Daydream Nation LP replacing the standard black or sparkle grill cloth. A transparent plexiglass drumset bears Steve's symbol.
1st act: John Paul Jones, Kim Gordon, and Mark Ibold each weilding scissors with extra-long blades cut up 3 copies of bass-tablature for the LZ song "Whole Lotta Love", randomly paste the pieces back together blindfolded, then each play their new cut-up bass parts simultaneously, while the Merce Cunninham Dance Company flips coins at guitars left on to buzz and feedback, only occasionally hitting a string.
2nd act: Lee and Thurston make explicit the connections between Jimmy Page's psych-out violin bow Dazed & Confus(ion/ed) workouts and just about every heavy duty sonic brakdown/blowout, utilizing custom made violin bows made from oplical prisms that cause rainbow trails around their guitars and distortions in space and time. Thuston in poppy suit, Lee in stars and planets suit. Kim in dragon suit teaches the dancers some schoolyard hopscotch moves.
3rd act: Steve Shelly, shirtless in wig and false beard, plays a truely twisted take on Moby Dick with heavily dealyed and phased drum sounds sent through all the band's amps, and swirling around the audience in surround sound, while Thruston with curled hair, midriff shirt, and too-tight pants sings his poems in bad Robert Plant imitation voice, and Takehisa Kosugi types out the score to "+/-" on musical calculator stolen from Kraftwork's practise space.
4th act: all performers join audience and tangle up a truely massive supply of old used guitar strings until someone gets hurt. Everyone has to have a tetnus shot afterwards.
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