where is the WTF for BOREDOMS 777 / 77BOADRUM ?

http://wizardishungry.com/blog/

posting something awesome daily

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more stuff

"sound installation"

Is Wizard Is Hungry a Boredom or something?

I am not drumming

"All the while, Eye triggered orchestral samples, swapped microphones for a variety of treated voice effects and played the guitar-fence — a seven-necked structure of interlocking six-string fret boards each tuned to different open chords that he struck with a pair of drum sticks or played four-at-a-time with a metre-long wooden rod. The screaming Eye we’ve come to know and love was surprisingly reserved until towards the end of set when he abandoned his keyboard post to dance and wail in between the three drum kits, leaping in and out of the small space with more energy than most people half his age. (Consequently, I’ve now planned my mid-life crisis around fronting a three-drummer Japanese noise band.) After an exhausting 80-minute set, the crowd still wanted more, and the Boredoms ceded a lengthy encore."

is that hte TO show?

cuz that's what it was like

drumming for 77 minutes straight is no easy feat

Mickey Hart and Bill kreutzmann did it for 30 years

hahahaha.

zing!

Please God, let there be a live album of this for all us poor Suth'n boys :(

also, Andrew W.K. haha holy shit!

drumming for 77 minutes straight is no easy feat

Uh I do this all the time

no not marching band

club shows too

without stopping?

I'm not a drummer, but I would think that drumming for 77 minutes straight with the kind of intensity and pace of a typical Boredoms gig is no easy feat.

but basically, Jordan, you are implying that what you do is an easy feat, so you win.

I just don't think it's that unusual, I mean don't a lot of headlining bands play 90 min. sets? Unless stopping for a few moments between songs is the distinction.

not much stopping inna boredoms stylee

Unless stopping for a few moments between songs is the distinction

yeah, i think that's the point here. but it's not like all 77 people have to play continuously for there to be continuous music.

I guess playing the basically the same thing at the same tempo for over an hour would be harder on your body than playing different songs for the same amount of time, yeah.

xpost

my point is ... I hope a certain 77 nyc hipsters are in top shape, ya na?

argh I was totally gonna go to this but MAN PLANS AND GOD LAUGHS

I am going to dress like a horse.

I was gonna wear a sun ra shirt and take acid

instead I'm sitting at home on the 3rd of july bidding on a CD of the Livin' Proof instrumentals while my friends tell me how shitty Transformers was

(update: I won, with a bid of $5.50)

Did anyone actually get an email back from the supposedly obligatory RSVP thing on the Vice site?

NO

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4gk3CxQ8xo

^ super going!!!

Nice! That's pretty much like what I saw them do in St Paul last year. I wonder when this mysterious "guitar fence" came into the picture? Sometime in the last two months, apparently.

Now I kind of wish there was a normal Boredoms gig in nyc in addition to 77BOADRUM

I think some of the Japan gigs have had it.

drummer list...

Drum leaders:

01 Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle / Pixeltan)
02 Tim Dewit (Gang Gang Dance)
03 Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
04 Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band / Under Satans Sun)
05 Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas)
06 Jesse Lee (White Magic)
07 Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas)
08 Kid Millions (Oneida)
09 Andy McLeod (Howling Hex / Modest Mouse)
10 Aaron Moore
11 Robin Easton

Other drummers:

12 Sara Lund (Unwound)
13 Jim Black
14 Andrew W.K.
15 Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat)
16 Miggie (Blood on the Wall)
17 Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
18 Andee Connors (A Minor Forest / Lumen)
19 John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
20 Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
21 Chris Millstein
22 Abby Portner (First Nation)
23 Aviram Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs)
24 Allison Busch (Awesome Color)
25 Warren Huegel (Tussle)
26 Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
27 Clare Amory
28 Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
29 Josh Bonati (Aa)
30 Nadav Havusha (Aa)
31 Aron Wahl (Aa)
32 Jeffrey Salane (Panthers)
33 Jim Sykes
34 David Aron (Koi Pond)
35 Michael Catano
36 Spencer Herbst (Matta Lama)
37 Jim Siegel (Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki)
38 Mike Pride (MDC, FUSHITSUSHA, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide)
39 Nick DeCarmine
40 Marianne Kozlowski (The Punks)
41 Than Luu (M. Ward)
42 Dave Bergander (Celebration)
43 Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
44 Andrya Ambro
45 Justin DeRosa
46 Hart Mingus (Negative Approach)
47 Matthias Schulz (Enon / Holy Fuck)
48 Josh Madell (Antietam, Other Music)
49 Matt (No Neck Blues Band)
50 Jim Abramson (Dymaxion)
51 Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
52 Adriana Magaña (Crash Worship)
53 Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band)
54 Travis Harrison
55 Jared Barron
56 Jason Kourkounis (Delta 72 / Hot Snakes)
57 Eric Cohen (Caroliner)
58 Daniel Franz (Arbouretum)
59 Christopher Brokaw (Codeine)
60 Jared Burak (Wet Cement)
61 Christopher Powell (Icy Demons / Man Man)
62 Sadie Laska (I.U.D.)
63 Pete Vogl (Koi Pond)
64 Barbara Schauwecker
65 AJ Edminson (Favourite Sons)
66 David Grubbs
67 John McSwain (VICE)
68 Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins)
69 Alan Licht
70 Rick Prior
71 Kayrock
72 Dave LeBleu (Prefuse 73 / Mercury Program)
73 Lizzy Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance)
74 Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)

someone give me money and that day off from work so i can go kthxbye. if i must go deaf, let this be the way it happens.

So are these 77 drummers going to practice?

And can someone better explain what the hell this guitar is, because I still don't get it.

so, what's with the rsvp?
is my information being put on a list or something?

And can someone better explain what the hell this guitar is, because I still don't get it.

Its a bunch of guitar necks, probably each tuned to play a different chord that are played percussively

"12 Sara Lund (Unwound)"

awes

i have to work, too.

So are these 77 drummers going to practice?
They've been practicing with the lead group, at least.
I would think there'd be at least one full rehearsal, too.
Damn I wish I was in NYC this weekend. Should be epic.

i hear there's some friction with sponsor NIKE over wearing/not wearing their athletic shoes.

Dudes, I have it from a reliable source that 10K people have RSVP'd for this. Park holds 4 or 5K. Dunno about y'all, but I'm gonna go there two, maybe three hours early.

i predict it will not be capacity

that bowery show they did: 550 capacity, maybe 450 shut out = 1,000 two years ago

hardcore fans (including those coming from out of town), drum lovers, idle dumbo gallery strollers, and people netted in by the likes of flavorpill and time out ny: got to be around 2K, 3K tops.

sanskrit otm
i'll get there when the gates open

need to go buy lots of water bottles

otm

weren't we supposed to get confirmation emails today?

viceland server went down

i don't think there's any confirmations planned.

there was no response that went out. If people RSVPed when the show was announced earlier this week, then they are on the list. The whole server, including viceland, is down due to a problem with our ISP. We are figuring it out and it should be up soon. Sorry - thanks, and the event is going to be loud and rad.

Posted by Christen from VICE

from brooklyn vegan forums

brooklyn vegan is the worst name for a website ever btw

haha

wizard needs more to eat

brooklyn carnivore

Now, now; Dave the BV guy is a really nice dude.

Do you think if we RSVP now we'd still get in?

i wish i could see it,almost saw it last year,but it was cancelled.
instead, i saw boredoms live and it was a bit of a boredom to my surprise.lightning bolt were much much better,but man,so many beautifull women were on the crowd that night...

opposite for me. Boredoms or Voordoms rather were one of the best Ive ever seen, and Lightning Bolt were about the same as any 2 kids Ive ever seen practicing in their basement.

Capacity for the show is 4000 I think. I'm predicting a riot.

I got the email:

Thank you for RSVPing to tomorrow's BOREDOMS 77BOADRUM performance.

Your name has been added to the RSVP list for the event. HOWEVER, the RSVP response has been overwhelming - which means that we CANNOT guarantee admission, except on a first come-first served basis. We cannot overstate this: Not everyone will be allowed in.

The line will begin at the corner of New Dock and Water Street at 2:30pm. Please do NOT arrive before 2:30pm as the police stationed there will ask you to move along. Doors will open at 4pm. After we hit capacity, we can only admit you on a one-in, one-out basis.

PLEASE BE PREPARED TO WAIT, OR TO BE TURNED AWAY.

Is there any indication that the RSVP list will even be used? If so, first person to email me gets to use my RSVP since I have to work.

Nick we demand you attend and update live on your laptop.

i don't have to work until seven tomorrow, so i could go for a few hours.

still, this thing seems to have already reached my waiting in a huge line in the heat and possibly not getting in and even if i do not being able to see shit capacity. i might just wait for the 7,707 blog clips to go up.

argh. i just re-read the intro. must go.

Wow, I only just noticed Aaron Moore of Volcano The Bear is in there. UK East Midlands massive reprazenting! A friend of mine is there, well hopefully.

Not that I'm insanely jealous or anything. Gah.

Poortheatre-- The email says Boredoms won't start playing til 7. You'd better call in sick.

Pretty good article in NY Times today by Ben Ratliff. The photo of Eye gives a glimpse of the "guitar fence" in the background.

Aaron Moore lives in Brooklyn now.

Anyone else NOT get an RSVP email?

mine was in my spam folder

I'm sure you're ok

hard to imagine them checking off 4,000 names on a list

All the email says is basically "thanks for RSVP'ing, we can't guarantee you'll get in and it's first come first served."

The line forms at 2:30 at New Dock and Water St.

I, too, very much doubt they'll be checking names. U & K is just being at that intersection at 2:30.

Capacity for the show is 4000 I think. I'm predicting a riot.

-- forksclovetofu, Saturday, July 7, 2007 5:15 AM (11 hours ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuMCVVKLPk

77 drummers in NYC and Russell Simins isn't there?!

i dont' want to blow up anyone's spot, but is not at least one regular ILMer part of the drum corps?

We waited in line two hours and were still a few blocks away by the time they hot capacity. Anxious to hear how it went.

totally did not get in

I really want to know how awesome this was.

I ended up watchin on the Brooklyn Bridge - which was surprisingly nice. Some hippy in a tie-died shirt danced something fierce, including pouring gravel on himself to cool off. It was good, but I think that the typical Boredoms show is more intense (then again, I watched from a distance away).

including pouring gravel on himself to cool off

!!??!>!>!!!

so, did anyone tape it?

heard it from the other park. Sounded great. Didn't feel well due to Chocolate Haven Frozen Hot Chocolate though. Could've gotten in through my many insider connections but really thought I'd get in anyway. By the time I realized there was no chance, it was too late.

We got a good spot, right behind drummer #66. Good god, what an amazing performance. The physical sensation of all those drum hits pushing through your body is beyond my descriptive ability. I mean, you can maybe intuit what 77 drummers hitting floor toms at once sounds like, but not the sound of 77 drummers all rolling on cymbals in an open-air setting.

I suppose being another twenty or so feet back from the ring would also have been good. Right up against some specific drummers, our aural perspective was skewed toward where those drummers were at in the cycle.

The ritual character, the whole hymn to the sun thing, the long, subtractive ending with Eye keeping his eye on the progress of the sunset, it all worked and added up to something really awe-inspiring. I'm so tired now, and I'm not getting any of it across.

Lemme just add this: EYE HAD A FUCKING TRIDENT.

Bleep, it sounds like the sound was pretty diffuse by the time it reached the bridge? Could you get a sense of the incremental changes in the drumming patterns as they switched over drummer by drummer? Could you hear the guitar fence much?

Dan, yeah I had some friends who came too late, and I hoped they'd go over to that other park and listen. It was pretty close by. But they went home.

I also enjoyed the tie dye guy offering himself to the cosmos. He was on the opposite end of the coil from me though, and I didn't see him do the thing with the fucking gravel. Damn.

Oh yeah-- there were a LOT of cameras at work. I'm pretty sure a DVD is planned. There was a crew up on one of those hydraulic lifter platform things, and then a bunch of camera people roving around focussing on individual drummers, close ups of Boredoms, etc. Stationary mics were at various points in the coil.

Urgh, bed now.

i'd be happy with a bootleg, but a dvd would be great.

Yea there is going to be a DVD.

I was filmed doing some hardcore liquid dancing and handsprings in a my kitsune (3 tailed shapeshifting japanese fox wizard) fursuit so I will be on it.

:O

The first few minutes of the set seemed to have enough space for the bridge to echo back the big hits which was awesome. Best move I made all night was to make a beeline for the college student types dancing behind #77!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3PupB2Lwtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEw9GtmcrDw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuzVWAhlkI&NR=1

THE GREATEST SHOW EVER GAVE

Even with the chunky video and sound on those clips, holy heck.

Wait, did Jon W. just admit he's a furry?

EVERYTHING CHANGED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xae_C33jdzc

They filmed me for a minute too, though all I was doing was rocking in a crosslegged position and gaping at the excruciating beauty of Eye and Yoshimi's call-and-response vocal duet toward the end over an acid police/grand taiko rhythm.

If the DVD comes out in surround, then fuck it I will buy a surround system. In the part where everyone was dwelling on erratic rim-shot figures, it sounded like I was in a forest surrounded by happy clucking toads.

If Jon was over by #77, yeah that's where all the wildness was happening. The tie dye gravel guy, the lady on stilts, the fox suit (which I didn't see?)

In the first layer of people around the drum coil we were requested to sit down, which was actually ok because more of my body was against the ground picking up seismic drum events.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMkZ63Dy5Y

Jesus. I played in a drum jam circle thing last year with about 17 drummers and thought that was pretty heavy but this looks somewhat more amazing... Need DVD now!

The after party at the bookstore was evil for only serving rum or beer. I can't drink beer and as I can confirm right this moment, rum is poison. Where is the whiskey, Nike?

That's officially my only complaint about the whole day, except the big one-- it's really sticking in my craw that not everyone who really deeply wanted to get in could get in. I don't know how it could have been done differently to remedy that, but it's just so patently unfair that anyone was denied Boadrum.

The DVD will be quite a task for some video editor, and the mixing of the various audio perspectives, yeesh. I hope they hurry up though. Maybe release on 7/7/08?

7/7/77 -- so it'll be a bit.

Eye will still look 25 years old by then, I trust.

At the show in St Paul last year, he was in the audience during the other bands, and I had never seen him up close with his dreads. I thought he was a happy Japanese hipster college student out for a night of noise. Dude is youthful.

damn that looks awesome!

http://17dots.com/2007/07/08/eyyyyyyye-yayayay-77-drummers/

even without the drummers, that would have been the most amazing voredoms show ever -- with the drummers, that was one of the most amazing shows I've seen anywhere

eye had seven six-string guitar sticks (no resonating bodies), mounted on two seperate poles, each with different open tunings -- each one offered its own chord. and he played them with drumsticks, and occasionally the trident, going through them one at a time to form chord sequences, or just drumming on one of them for super-neu waves of sound

the sight of every drummer raising their arms for the downbeat. and at one point a police helicopter flew over the park very low and you couldn't hear it over the drumming.

waiting for pictures taken from the brooklyn bridge

The Japanese guitar tech who lived behind the seven guitar necks was a virtuoso of his trade. Dude had to retune them all/replace the broken strings after each interlude of Eye hitting them. He had to do all of these things reaching around from behind and listening on headphones while the melee of everything else continued.

My most eagerly awaited picture besides the bridge view is the trident upraised. The first instance of that was officially when I lost my shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuzVWAhlkI&NR=1

^ ISN'T THIS ALMOST SUPER NOW?

The pause before the trident hits was amazing every time.

Not sure what kind of pics you'll find from the bridge - it was pretty obstructed...

xpost. As for the sound, Jon, I think it was easier to hear the diffuse swirls of sound by the time it got to the bridge. I didn't realize they went one drummer at a time with changes - especially with the half-second delay of the sound vs. image - it sounded more like gradual changes with each ring of drummers. I think we lost a lot in the last "suite" where it quieted a bit - traffic was pretty loud. But there was pretty loud applause on the bridge...hundreds of us turned away kids up there...

They didn't always go one drummer at a time. Just in a few parts.

Actually I believe the majority of transformations happened one at a time. The sudden ones where Eye signalled everone were less common, and all the more powerful for it.

I know cause it took me quite awhile to stop watching the coil process, and just go crazy on the gestalt.

http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~hhsu/blog.html

Hua has some more pictures, including one of me fuzzed up in the sky. Everyone was taking bets on whether there was going to be a light portal opened during the performance. I lost five bucks on that.

They filmed me for a minute too, though all I was doing was rocking in a crosslegged position and gaping at the excruciating beauty of Eye and Yoshimi's call-and-response vocal duet toward the end over an acid police/grand taiko rhythm.

^^^this part was v. cool!

i was in a space right behind 76. i can't believe you guys missed jon's fox suit.

What color was the fox suit?

I just couldn't stop staring at the guy in the chicken hat.

this is the best clip i've seen yet
the ending is especially superb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOGRUKqDFY

Why were many of the "official" camera people dressed as animals?

There was the white wolf, the chicken, and the full-body frog (which I never saw all the way on-- he always had it opened to his waist which made for a bizarre sight.

I also don't know how I missed the fox wizard. #66 was not that far away...

i think the furries were all volunteers; vice was looking for help up to the day before. Vice likely handed out five hats and said go at it.

Somehow this seems even cooler on video than it was live... sorta. When the first waves of sound really hit; it made everybody giddy.

how many of those 77 drummers can actually keep time?

This is the best vid yet. 8 minutes long and relatively good sound.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7495493603041262726

lol "related videos: SANTANA live!"

This is obviously some of the coolest shit to ever have been conceived & executed by humankind.

The guitar fence is pretty clear in that vid too. xpost

From my vantage, I couldn't tell what Eye was playing - at some point it sounded like a really fuzzed out guitar (!?!). What's a guitar fence?

Contra the otherwise excellent 17dots write up, Gang Gang Dance did not play; one of their members DJ'ed a long world music set before the opening acts. I still don't actually know what Gang Gang Dance sounds like, but the DJ set fucking killed in my opinion. If a tracklist turns up for it, or even better a downloadable mix, pleez to inform. There was some shit on there I wanna seek out.

Both opening acts were plagued with technical and/or musical difficulties. I have to wonder what First Nation are supposed to sound like-- not what we heard yesterday, I hope.

As I understand it BleepBot, the guitar fence is a buncha guitar necks tuned to open tunings that Eye hits with drumsticks to sound chords. The necks are mounted on a pole so it looks sorta like a fence.

xpost

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4108/guitarfenceit6.png

There is an excellent view of the guitar fence in yesterday's article in the NY Times Arts section. It's in the online edition. You can even tell what pickups are on them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minaka/754945658/in/pool-77boadrum/

Ok, those pics are even better!

But still read the NYT article, it's pretty good.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1194/753966685_dcedb7db91.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1142/754480969_78904f499a.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/755333548_c80007f2a1.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/754481265_ccf94540b5.jpg?v=0

is that all of them?

wau

there are more pics. just search for boadrum on flickr. there is a good shot of an unrecognizable andrew wk drumming but i forgot to post it.

where is the zZz for BOREDOMS 777 / 77BOADRUM ?

oh all right all right. on with the wtf then

Super Roots 9 is really good but it's just not scratching the itch right now.

here's some video i took: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDFYwJngpU4
renoir it's not

there are more pics. just search for boadrum on flickr. there is a good shot of an unrecognizable andrew wk drumming but i forgot to post it.

We need the whole show from Andrew WK's angle. It's the only way!

No screw that. He looked like an idiot. Any other good looking drummers in this?

i predict it will not be capacity

-- sanskrit, Friday, July 6, 2007 5:02 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

lol, sonned

Super Roots 9 is really good but it's just not scratching the itch right now.

-- Jon Lewis, Sunday, July 8, 2007 4:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I have "sunload" on my blog... Also going to up House of Sun with drummers and what sounds like Y Seiichi live.

Holy fuckin shit sanskrit, your video was a pretty damn good summary of the whole thing. The precision of the drumming is incredible. I wish I could have experienced something like that. Looking at them all hammering away on their kits, wow.

How loud was it in person?

thx trayce.

i don't know anything about acoustics, somehow it was not loud enough to be overwhelming, but powerful enough for the sound to carry quite a ways.

and at one point a police helicopter flew over the park very low and you couldn't hear it over the drumming.

milton's comment above is apt, we got buzzed pretty close and you couldn't hear it at all.

mr. snrub's review is up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/arts/music/09bore.html

Nice review! :)

mr. snrub's review is up

...hold on.

worst-managed event I got conned into being anywhere near

EVER

That reminds me.

you mean the bbq that made you miss the show?

I think it may have been all the potheads smoking at the end of the BBQ.

That review blows.

I mean Bloombergiani Fascism and the "industry" ppl who enable it

(I didn't catch any smoke)

given that this took place in a state park, I'm not sure what Bloomberg has to do with it

NYPD jackals keeping the peace

also, fuck off.

it was all State Police.

on the street?

worst-managed event I got conned into being anywhere near

EVER

http://www.oldmansimpson.com/pics/grabpics/grampa09.gif

the gate was all staties

About 45-60 minutes into the show I went back to the front entrance to find at least 200 people filing out early. "Excellent!", I and everyone else at the door thought, "one out, one in", but NOPE. The cops refused to even let in the diehards who never left their spots on line throughout the entire event. THAT was the most frustrating thing for me. It made no sense. They could no longer blame capacity - they (the cops) just felt like being dicks - even lecturing the pleading crowd, "blah blah you should get to free concerts early blah blah talk to my boss not me blah blah...". You could tell they were loving every minute of it.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/07/outside_the_bor.html

it's a state park and those guys in grey are state police

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/07/outside_the_bor.html

Where is the NYPD here?

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/boredoms/bridge/12.jpg
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/boredoms/bridge/16.jpg
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/boredoms/bridge/18.jpg

OK YOU WIN OH CHRIST I HAAAAATE MYSELF

a pig is a pig is a pig

a Spitzer is a Bloomberg is a Schumer is a Markowitz

but how many of them eat pig?

looks like that fucker ben affleck was on the door

DEVENDRA SHOULD JUST SWAM FOR IT

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/boredoms/bridge/1.jpg

it does sound like someone misled people waiting on line, but it's not clear that was an official person. people were advised they might not get in even after they'd rsvp'd, so if they didn't show up as early as possible i don't see what they have to complain about other than that miscommunication on line. and maybe the apparently large VIP list, which seems to have benefited some ilxors. but ultimately, given that the venue capacity can't be changed, the problem would seem to be with the venue selection. apart from the fact that few people likely anticipated the extent of interest in this thing, would accommodating all comers have been a higher value than selecting the best venue?

they should have stopped accepting RSVP's when they hit capacity, duh!

Fuck, yes. And people were "advised" like this the day of the show:

I met a few people on line that received emails from vice that only had html code but no content. What's up with that?

xpost - maybe so, and if people want to take this out on Vice, I'd be fine with that even if it weren't fair. but not everyone who rsvp's at no cost to themselves is gonna show up. like me, for instance (OMG BLAME GABBNEB). while there might be better means, early doors and a line are a good way of judging commitment (or, how "hardcore" someone's interest is, if you prefer).

also, i don't know why people expected state park police to act like central park summerstage volunteers wrt the 1-for-1 thing.

I met a few people on line that received emails from vice that only had html code but no content. What's up with that?

maybe they're using the wrong browser?

RSVP means you are going, it's not that hard to figure out, it sounds like VICE fucked up bigtime, what a suprise

i volunteer for a film festival and the same sort of situiations happen all the time. only i've never seen a fuck up like this.

1) You presell a number of tickets, you put those people in one line. In this case these would have been all the RSVP people. Naturally, there would have been people who RSVPed who didn't show up.

2) so you get your second line of people who didn't RSVP but want to get in. when you've exhausted the first line, you start letting people in from the second line. works every time.

also, i don't know why people expected state park police to act like central park summerstage volunteers wrt the 1-for-1 thing.

There should have been 5-10 VICE people managing the door, duh! this is not hard to do!

the police took control of the door

vice and jelly totally blew, but what do they care?

this vw bus displaying nike sneakers was there, the american apparel tie dye tent (no lie), the marketing clients all got in. and all the press has been pretty favorable.

vice could care less about a few thousand frustrated people shut out. if anything, it proves to their clients how edgy they are with programming. the only people they were concerned about at the event were the 4 or 5 individuals who signed all the checks.

err, vice and jelly totally blew it.

maybe they're using the wrong browser?

Do you have any Grey Poupon?

zackly, skrit... more BVegan:

even worse part of this situation - not just anyone can walk up to the city and get to use the McCarren Park Pool, or walk up to the state and use Brooklyn Bridge Park.

These people have access to these locations because of political connections - basic cronyism.

To be in the (unfair) privileged position to use locations nobody else is able to use for art, and then to do it in a completely half-assed crappy fashion, that's just outrageous.

SMOKEBOMB McCARREN.

The precision of the drumming is incredible.

It looked to me like there was 1 or 2 mic'ed kits and everyone else just followed along. Like noodling in key of c, but without having to worry about key of anything. I suppose they had to worry about doing something really off and looking like a dick, though.

http://www.errormacro.com/images/2007/scans/3doad7.php

http://i9.tinypic.com/63b1nxs.jpg

The drummers were all following cues of:
EYE
the 11 drum leaders
the drummer to their left and right
the gigantic nathan's hot dog boacircle creation newsound.

if only marty markowitz had conducted it

10 drum leaders!

you mean the bbq that made you miss the show?

Yeah, the one that made J0n also mis... oops.

This is obviously some of the coolest shit to ever have been conceived & executed by humankind.

come, Armageddon, come

your sense of entitlement is not what the world needs right now

love, sweet love

the ppl w/ a deadly sense of entitlement got in, hunny.

I only got in from the karma of missing most of the GATAX show to go on a shitty date with a Pratt girl.

YOU are the 78th member! This is beccause the sound will spiral outwards,from left to right, like DNA ,from deep inside of us right out to you .The 77 drum group is one giant instrument, one living creature . The 77 boa-drum will coil like a snake and transform to become a great dragon ! - EYE (BOREDOMS)

was that the one you had the date with but you cdn't remember wot she looked like? or is she long gone

GATAX = Nov 2005.

I have a date tomorrow.

does anyone have a clip of eye doing one if the trident hits?

I didn't know till now that they didn't keep their word on the 1-in-1-out thing. That really, really bites.

With re: to the RSVP system, when we got there at 2:00 you could walk right into the park, then they cleared everyone out to go wait in line. Point is, there were five or six large tables set up by the entry with big letters on them (A-D, E-H, etc). We were astonished by the fact that it seemed they really were gonna check RSVP names.

During the wait in line, volunteers came up and down saying "If you didn't RSVP you won't be able to get in". Then, maybe 45 minutes later, they came along checking ID's and putting on bracelets.

But when they started letting everyone in at 4:00, the alphabetical tables by the entry were nowhere to be seen and RSVP's had clearly become irrelevant. I would be curious to know when the RSVP criterion was abandoned. Had they already given up on it when they came along saying "No RSVP, no entry?"

Catsup, I will be like white on rice with regard to the abovementioned items when they hit your blog, thanks!

Also, yes, NEED MAJESTIC TRIDENT IMAGES!!!

http://wiki.urbandead.com/images/thumb/b/b3/Trident.jpg/110px-Trident.jpg

*braces self for flurry of Aquaman image bombing*

RSVP means you are going, it's not that hard to figure out

nope...everybody who throws events knows that probably 1/10th of the people who RSVP to an event actually show up. But this was a very desirable free event, so you could figure the chances that people would actually show would be quite a bit higher than your usual crappy party. But with no pre-selling, there's no way to assume an RSVP=somebody actually coming.

If they had decided to make it a pay event w/moderate price, say 10 bucks, do you think that would have invalidated their park permit?

Ha, my shoulders and back of head made it into the NYT photo.

Man... given that it seems the full load of people were already in line by 3:00, it seems kind of fucked that they told us to start forming the line at 2:15 instead of 2:30. That fifteen minutes made the difference for a lot of people, I'm thinking.

Someone suggested that it should have been a charity event. Like $20 to some worthy cause.

I don't know about the park permit...I certainly think if they charged a small fee and sold tickets in advance they wouldn't have had such a big problem. It was a clusterfuck, I don't particularly blame any one group, there were problems all around, some that were made worse, there were volunteers going around really early on doing headcounts and saying "these people will get in" to sections of the line that were well beyond who actually did get in. And the failure of the one in-one out thing was annoying, though i don't know how many people left after it started.

next time they should just follow my flawless system outlined above.

If they had decided to make it a pay event w/moderate price, say 10 bucks, do you think that would have invalidated their park permit?

Some of the comments I've seen suggested that the non-commercial nature of the event contributed to the permit approval? I don't know that Jelly is equipped to be a ticket-seller, though? Aren't the McCarren benefit shows handled by someone else?

from what I heard from the vice folks, to get the park without a huge fee, the event had to be free

Next time they do some huge insane thing for free (and I hope they do) they should do it in some field in the middle of nowhere, without capacity limiations.

xp - yeah I think all of jelly's shows at the pool are free, the ticketed ones that raise $$ for the pool are live nation

LONG ISLAND.

I think it needed to be near water

there was definitely an earth (brooklyn bridge echoes) and water pairing going on. if they end up doing 8/8/08 they should do an air/fire dyad. on top of the empire state building or something.

... I've been freelancing on that project doing logistics, coordinating, and pulling out old math skills I didn't know I still had from 8th grade--the spiral had to be exactly 3 rings, with minimum 8' between rings and maximum 6' between each drummer, AND drummer #77 had to be positioned directly in front of the sunset. Oy. But what a great event all told, the video will go up on the Vice website within a week.

xpost

or the WTC site :/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1180/756839336_4f8b28dba2_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1345/755983293_8e442bc022_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1057/759608139_00ac688d38_o.jpg

"Everybody knows what RSVP means" shd become state-of-the-art solipsistic meme

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1066/754842873_472379957b_b.jpg

ahhh..i tried to get onto that liftything..no dice. :(

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1070/756141037_c0310d64df_o.jpg

^ i am about 3 feet off frame there

But what a great event all told, the video will go up on the Vice website within a week.

??!!?? OMG waht is source of this info?!?!

what i wanna know is, where are all the pix from the guy who had a note taped to his shirt claiming he was gonna snap 7777?

brooklyn vegan didn't get in

INTERESTING:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/228/interestingkb6.jpg

nobody tipped that chick over?

someone was carried away on a stretcher, but I don't think it was her

there was someone on the ground by the gate at the end too who got hauled off

My friend Lisa said there were two boys "clearly tripping their balls off" over in the portapot area who were hauled off in handcuffs. This was during the DJ set.

How do you get caught tripping?

That annotated snare drum photo is invaluable. Just saved it for later study.

xpost I know, I dunno they what were actually arrested for. Lisa said before the police came over one of the two was bleeding profusely from his nose but would't let anyone help him.

http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/boredoms_with_77_drummers_in

^

lol @ "pads"

http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2007/07/09/boredoms-boadrum77

"Thanks Eye, Yoshimi, Hira and Seiichi for making it happen, and also, we would like to purchase one of those vertical electric gong things Eye was playing if someone can hook that up."

o_O

Reminds me of the free weekly in atlanta publishing a blurb for an upcoming Who show in the 90's-- "...Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon are making a rare Atlanta appearance..."

steve shasta made the fader!
on the left!

http://www.thefader.com/blog/files/boadrum1.jpg

GNAR!

He's in this soft circle video too jam jam jamzzz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S4WmDD_mpw

(I has the video of the epic shoe dance. )

hypothesis: Eye is the Bob Marley of New Weird.

What was Bob Marley the Bob Marley of?

reggae

Bob Marley's penis was a blind man's penis.

If so, Snop Snitchin is wrong

Ψ Ψ Ψ Ψ Ψ Ψ

didn't make it in but I sat across the water in that other park. so, at one point four kids made a break for it and all of em tried to run across the beach and hop a fence to get into the show. I think one dude did make it in, but the other three got hauled off by some cops. one kid even tripped as he was running, got back up, and then got tackled SUPER HARD.

still bummed that I didn't get in (showed up around 3:30 and was repeatedly told that we might get in, so we waited around about 3hrs on line before relocating) but the sound really wasn't bad at all over there. pretty sure it was better than up on the bridge, anyway. I can only imagine how loud the whole thing was up close.

how hard would it have been to print 4,000 free tickets?

I think one dude did make it in, but the other three got hauled off by some cops. one kid even tripped as he was running, got back up, and then got tackled SUPER HARD.

Maybe this is the story behind the handcuffed bloody nose kid. Although he was already inside the show...

at one point four kids made a break for it and all of em tried to run across the beach

http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/619/mapqk6.jpg

Wow Sanskrit, now I am even more impressed with your escapade.

sanskrit i think i only got half the story on saturday, but yes, yr sneak attack was bad ass as fuck

the best i did was hide a beer long enough to drink it all

and i wasnt even the one who snuck it out of the vip d-bags area

fucking awesome

running into sanskrit right after he made it in: he walks up with huge eyes, covered in sweat, and says 'uhm do you have any water? I can trade for scotch'

gangsta

Heroes Of Boadrum trading card series (c)2007 Topps, Inc.

correct behavior, son

Collect them all:

1. Hisham
2. Sanskrit
3. Tie Dye Gravel Guy
4. Big Gorgeous Weeping Willow Tree

5. Little Japanese Kid With Huge Earphones

20 year old japanese dude with cargo shorts, pop tatari shirt and sexyDancer hat

brigade of friends who let friends cut into bathroom line

no doubt

7) 18 year old blogger girl from CT with blonde hair and yellow dress

err that was 8

was crazy-dancing-oldie who hits all the jamband shows there?

ultra blonde crusty parents who lost their kid for a few mintues in the bushes

Old grey/curly haired dude in Czukay-esque who shows up at anything vaguely Zorn related (last seen at Koenjhyakeii) and takes shakey shakey photos.

errr Czukay-esque hat

PUNKS IN THE CANOE!!!!

next show out there we're renting a pontoon boat

Headphone baby was also at the St Paul Boredoms show. Is that one of their kids?

http://emetsoc.ecmwf.int/pics/hovercraft.jpg

Yes its Yoshimi's baby. She (I think?) was also on the amp stack watching the show at the Philly show.

Reassessing sanskrit's map, here are some other plans one could have used for sneaking into Boardrum:

1. A small boat of some sort, to land at the beach
2. Scuba gear, at which point you woild rise at the show Apocalypse Now style.
3. Get inside of or scale the building in the bottom right corner of the photograph to either sneak out of a back exit or repel down the side cartoon style.

Or hang glide from the bridge.

1986 WORLD SERIES PARACHUTIST @ SHEA STADIUM

Don't forget my stoned four year old in front of me who clapped to the beat for thirty minutes.

JESS HARBL SAW SOME CHIPPENDALE'S ASS

my crush on him is even bigger now after saturday

dude is on some ivan drago-style training regimine

He has his name to live up to.

omg @ sanskrit's ninja shit

^^^^^
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total professional how it was done just fuckin wkd bless up big vybz

"damn, you shoulda been there" urban legend

ferrrrrt

jess' photobro must have been standing right next to me.

what else did eye have on stage? apart from the guitar fence? what happens at around 40 minutes with the psyched out acid chime riff is truly magical, that is the guitar fence i assume?

he looked to have a table full of various electronics though i have no idea what

He was rocking his CDJs for the "Hawaiiam Wave" type sounds and washes

creme1-- I think what you're referring to was the guitar fence. That was the only part where he used all seven necks to make a big chordal melody, like he was playing a giant vibraphone. The other big "guitar" hook, the one that kind of slides between chords, was done from his effects array.

much respekt to sanskrit. small world.

Yo, sD are you sure he's using a CDJ with pitch control? I haven't seen a laptop by his gear since the GATAX show but I know the orbs run MAX/MSP some I'm not sure why he wouldn't use a software effect setup and just have nice controllers....

looks like it from here:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1256/768061647_f409570f63.jpg?v=0

they might be pretty fancy CDJs so he can do backspins and other turtablist-type moves.

that is the same CDJ1000 he's been using for 5 years.

I touched one of those in a store and got electrocuted.

"for DJs only"

that child is yoshimi's....and amazingly cute...ive never seen anyone as happy about chinatown (she then totally passed out in the dream house).

What's there to like in Chinatown?

new green bo
nha trang
ajisen noodle shop
affordable fresh produce

Golden Unicorn

New Pasteur

etc

it might be more fun when yr in a stroller...theres lots to see down there. but comeone...sure the tourists are a real pain in the rump, but chinatown is a fab place to be.

What is Dream House-- are you talking about the La Monte thing? It still exists right?

yes....and yes, but it was almost 2 yrs ago

http://www.encens-compagnie.com/ind-phot/enc-ind-nag-.jpg

i take that back, there is a young/zazeela installation at the whitney's summer of love exhibit which is quite breathtaking.

yessss

really?

my friend that works there says it really disapointing. that its housed badly and isnt nearly loud enough.

oh y'know... museum people. they were born to complain.

fair.

well, on sat he insisted i should go see the show anyway. so i will. someday.

the Alexander Calder's miniature circus and accompanying vid made my trip to the Whit, much more so than the psych exhibit.

great. i do love clader.

dvd projections of light shows: pathetic. do better fancypants staple of modern arts!

the one light show with "Tomorrow Never Knows" was pretty good (and still looks somewhat modern).

that seizure inducing strobe room was pure insanity. the couch-in installation was cool too (except for that French dude that smelled so incredibly bad we were running away from him basically the whole time).

I run all my visuals at like 800 lines of resolution and 60fps.

Eye should have 88 people play DJ CD players for the 8/8/2008 event.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

the number 88 seems to be associated with some musical instrument from some previous millenium

^would try out for 88 pianos

88 people dressed up as hitler, dudes.

the young/zazeela piece at the whitney is as said above: poorly housed and presented, not nearly loud enough. kinda surprised they agreed to lend it.

also agreed, the calder circus totally rules.

Zazeela was instlled on the chair in front of mine at a frickin' great Feldman concert in a rug shop. That is as close as I have come to experiencing a Young/Zazeela piece, sadly.

88 Pianos would fucking rule, rule, rule. But the "8" theme would center on infinity (at least per Yoshimi in NYT) and pianos are such attack/decay animals.

I think Jon might be right and it would poetically need to involve rotary devices-- turntable or DJCD or-- hurdy gurdy? Amplified?

Turntables would be a good idea! Or tape loops.

Seems like getting 88 DJCD rigs might be hard.

What other music devices turn in a circle without having to stop?

CALLIOPE

that seizure inducing strobe room was pure insanity

shasta mon, that room was grebt. it also inspired me to (hypothetically) invent a tool to help train minor league baseball players. a darkened long hallway with a pitching machine running against different strobe intervals so you're making contact blind but starting your swing at a flash of light. could be dangerous.

88 roland 808's, duh!

plus a single piano whose 88 keys eye will repeatedly strike with a trident.

well, that didn't take long:
http://www.burntsienna.nu/dishevel/archives/685

I had that 3 days ago

color me impressed

man I had that before they even made it

wasn't it the wire piece from 2002? that eye insited that the v00r in voordoms was meant, partially, to stand as a sylus and two tables?

does anyone remember a stobe/light instalation down in soho/tribeca in ...2001? three or four rooms? the best being a room that was down a hall and totally black. one painfully bright strobe would flash every..oh, twenty seconds to show the room to be made of a white reflective surface then leave you with afterburn and totally disoriented. getting out was real hard! but lord knows who or what it was.

yeah! I still have the postcard from that on my fridge.
I'll check the artist name tonight...

were you the one that told me to go? thank suddenly makes sense of it all

maybe so, I was probably mumbling about it to every friend and passerby at the time.

it would make sense of it

man I had that before they even made it

I was BORN with it, man.

As good sounding as the MP3 is, I hope it turns up in 160 or 192kbps. For the cymbals' sake.

On the other hand I'm sure the commercial version will come along, so it doesn't matter all that much.

here's that light artist: http://www.hiroyamagata.com/exhibition/ngc/index.html

wasn't it the wire piece from 2002? that eye insited that the v00r in voordoms was meant, partially, to stand as a sylus and two tables?

according to japanese Boredoms sites, the 77BOADRUM performance was not Boredoms, nor even vOOredoms but "7v07". If you look on youtube you'll find a teaser video of a 2001 performance uploaded by a user with the suspicious name of Steve Shasta.

hey I just got a copy of this last night, haven't listened to it yet

But surely for 8/8/8 it will be vOOredoms. I mean besides the turntable reference the double o is also supposed to be an infinity symbol.

Also, listening to (Yoshimi's?) tremendous and very Mccoy Tyner-esque pianism on "Seadrum", I hope at least one 88-key grand will be involved.

or one 7744 key piano, Dr. T stylee

yes! thats entirely it, sD.

steve, yes, not voordoms, as we have discussed, but my point simply was that the 8 or infinity sign as tables is a commonly discussed concept of eye's.

see the ooioo/ey3 videos for uma = piano keys on an infinity sign

sd thanks for jogging my memory re: Hiro Yamagata. I saw that same installation in 2001 and I'm still getting flashbacks

http://angryape.com/news/2007/07/boredoms-plan-uk-live-dates

yay for the uk

according to the viceland website, there's going to be a cd and a dvd. but, then again, i'm still waiting for the super roots box.

YOU BETTER PAY UP, VICE!

I got a recording from one of the drummers if anyone's interested

Interested! (o)..(o)

Gimme a couple days to rip it and upload it somewhere, will post a link here when its ready

dunno if this has been posted already
http://17dots.com/2007/07/08/eyyyyyyye-yayayay-77-drummers/

Okay I have two MPegs, one is 420 MB and the other is 331 MB, both over the limits I can post at sendspace... anyone got any recommendations? These are MPEG-4 audio files...

Several other web services allow you to post larger files. Choose your own
http://www.listible.com/list/online-file-storage

Wow, they're big.

I know there's a way you can upload them as seperate 100 MB rar files and have them all knit together when the downloader unrars them. I dunno how to do it though...

megaupload.com

Yeah MU lets you do more than 100MB but it won't let you 420 in one go, will it?

There's a nice active torrent of 3 separate mpegs that have been incorporated into a DVD image with menus over at www.dimeadozen.org - I pulled it down and was amazed at what those clever Boredoms pulled off. I, like many upthread, anxiously await them taking us to a special, clever infinity on 8/8/8 ,,,

I listened to half of it last night and was blown away, the recording is really good and the performance is stunning. I love hearing natural phasing and panning in a live performance.

as promised
THE SHOE DANCE

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=77

...UM

if 888 happens, is it certain that it would be in NY?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_88_%28west%29

i heard it was to be in l.a.

Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_666

YOU GUYS!
tranlated from here: http://www.boredoms.jp/information/index.html

77BOADRUM" live documentary film July 7, from late night at the theater in Shibuya N!

YOU are the 78th member! This is because the sound will spiral outwards, from left to right, like DNA, from deep inside of us right out to you. The 77 drum group is one giant instrument, one living creature. The 77 boadrum will coil like a snake and transform to become a great dragon!
-EYE

let's hope dvd's will be made.

http://www.myspace.com/film77boadrum

ysi?

Hisham mentions the plan for 08/08/08 here...
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=656&Itemid=27

count me in for LA road trip if there's room in shastacar

i can probably go to one of those. but which one?

I love sanskrit's journey on this thread from scoffing hipster to gatecrashing superhero.

have they announced it yet, how do i get tickets etc?

to hell with tickets. i think they should just do RSVP's

I think you should just submit a photo of you posing with all your boredoms merch/records and the bigget fans get in.

lololololol

Hi there,

Thanks for RSVPing for tonight's VICE LIVE festivities at Santos Party House (and while we're doling out gratitude, thanks to our friends at Nokia NSeries for making it all possible).

This email is to confirm that we received your RSVP, and to give you a little rundown on how things will unfold tonight.

A LOT of people are planning on heading to Santos, which means the club will be packed to the gills, and many, many, many folks on the list will NOT be getting in. Including you, maybe.

Don't get us wrong, we want you there. But expect to wait in line, possibly for a long time, and there's a chance you might not get in at all. If you're one of those people who gets bummed out about such things, don't worry. There will be plenty of VICE parties this summer for you to attend.

Now you know the situation. Thanks for listening. See you tonight?

xoxo,
VICE

PS: Please do not reply to this email, no one will read it.Hi there,

Thanks for RSVPing for tonight's VICE LIVE festivities at Santos Party House (and while we're doling out gratitude, thanks to our friends at Nokia NSeries for making it all possible).

This email is to confirm that we received your RSVP, and to give you a little rundown on how things will unfold tonight.

A LOT of people are planning on heading to Santos, which means the club will be packed to the gills, and many, many, many folks on the list will NOT be getting in. Including you, maybe.

Don't get us wrong, we want you there. But expect to wait in line, possibly for a long time, and there's a chance you might not get in at all. If you're one of those people who gets bummed out about such things, don't worry. There will be plenty of VICE parties this summer for you to attend.

Now you know the situation. Thanks for listening. See you tonight?

xoxo,
VICE

PS: Please do not reply to this email, no one will read it.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=RZCM-46037

Live CD release from Boredoms featuring audio from their "77Boadrum" performance June 7, 2007 in New York on 2 CDs. CD includes bonus photo book and DVD featuring live documentary film digest, deleted scenes. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

$25 @ terminal 5 ? wtf?