where is the WTF for BOREDOMS 777 / 77BOADRUM ?

http://wizardishungry.com/blog/

posting something awesome daily

new scans uploaded

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?

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?