Watching The Temple Of Bon Matin & The Bunny Brains On Valentines Day Reminded Me Of Something

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It made me remember how much I love noise. It was very loud as both bands were playing in a small room in a house in West Philly.I haven't gone to see live music in a long time and I haven't seen what you would call a "noise" band in quite a while.I still love that completely dangerous for your ears level of decibels. I should wear earplugs as I've already lost a little hearing and I'm 34. But,it's rare for me to see live music these days,so I figure...Anyone else hear anything not suitable for small animals and children lately that nonetheless took you to a higher level just by sheer virtue of its volume? The BB's were just a trio of my brother danny on guitar,tom from jackie-o motherfucker on guitar and bunny eric on drums,but what a great racket!!

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This is probably more common and middle-of-the-road, but still: Even with all the amazing stuff they've done -- amazing both as where it is in the scheme of things re: the evolution of a rock "underground"/the dreaded four-letter p-word and also amazing just on its own as catchy-as-fuck pop #1 hits on Satan's Billboard -- "I Got A Right" (the version that shows up on Year of the Iguana) is THE most exhilirating Stooges song to me because of that very reason -- the most mundane lyrics possible ("I got a right to move/no matter what they say", etc) are yelled out with the ferocity of a dictator on methamphetamines, and the music fits the sound Iggy talked about in a PBS rock documentary about the pure sonic "KAPOW" of the Detroit assembly lines, a repetitive machine-like BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM that gets hung up by the line-stopping gear grind of a James Williamson (?) guitar solo that puts all other uses of the hesher six-string colloquialism "shred" to complete ass-naked shame. As I joked elsewhere, if the Sex Pistols sounded like this instead of a really irritable version of Sweet*, they wouldn't just be blanked out of the Top 40 -- they'd be deported.

*not a knock in the least

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(though now that I think of it, "Gimme Some Skin" is even moreso, with lyrics that actually fit the sleazo sound)

― Nate Patrin, King of Parenthetical Follow-Up Posts (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(also I think both songs are actually Iggy/Williamson and not Stooges Proper; it's hard to keep track of this shit sometimes)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope, I kiss you

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(and I thought up that "gear-stripping" metaphor even before I read that! OK I shut up now)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

(and that wasn't actually Julian Cope reviewing it, it's just his website. ARGH I wish you could edit posts instead of making a million of them over and over and over. Hey Scott, I hope you have e-mail notifications turned off)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Logrolling in our time- You have reminded me that Julian Cope reviews an amazing Monoshock album this month. Monoshock was the band that the guy from Blackjack records was in and he put out a great Bunny Brains album and he is also pals with the crazy drummer from Temple Of Bon Matin. Tis a small noisy world. Funhouse really,really loud is still my idea of church.

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

prescience or madness?

(steaming hot, etc etc.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

damn, (permalinks seem broken right now) try this in the meantime: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/singlesb.html

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i just read cope's monoshock thing, that was great!

― duane, Monday, 17 February 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The first time I saw Mindflayer live I was blown away both by the greatness and by the volume. My ears were fuzzy up to three days later. The last time I saw them Matt's equipment kept fucking up so it was mostly just drumming and feedback for the last third of their set, but you know.

I highly recommend their new album out on Bulb--it's tops in my book.

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 17 February 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway monoshock were a real impressive hi-vol experience yeah (saw em 1x)...the greatest ever was probably the gordons tho

― duane, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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