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I was in the same room as DEANGULBERRY but I didn't meet him. However, I did make a mental note of all those in the room that were taller than me as DEANGULBERRY says he is taller than me. I walked in just as OoioO went on.

The new band is great, but I still thought I would prefer the old band better. The new drummer (Ai, ex-AOA?) was really impressive. She plays with hand percussion (bongos, taiko) on her right, frontwards is like 5 toms (she played these most) and then a standard 5 piece kit to her left for that Boredoms/Rovo/OoioO super-synocopated style. Even though she was great I was not as floored as the last 2 times I saw Yoshiko (Yuka Yoshimura) who I'm convinced with OoioO is the best drummer in the world. The new drummer was also very pregnant which I didn't realize until after the set.

The new bassist played a fretless Steinberger which was pretty prog. The new guitarist was playing a KAOS pad with her foot. She did a Moss Trumpeter solo in unison with Yoshimi. Yoshimi played guitar (silver sparkly danelectro)/trumpet and a modified melodica.

They played mostly Gold + Green (asozan, moss trumpeter, grow sound tree) and Kila Kila Kila (i don't know the song titles!) for about 50 minutes. The encore was "Be sure to LOOP!".

Yoshimi's husband and daughter were at the merch booth along with the tour manager. I bought a t-shirt (seagulls - "ooioo"). They were selling colored vinyl shock city shockers 2.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that was a bummer not meeting up. My phone went dead as soon as I got to that shopping center and didn't come back until I was halfway home.

Great show though and those two tiny kids were almost as entertaining as the band, especially when they were adding their cowbell noise interludes.

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, from the pix the Steinberger is not fretless but sounded fretless at times, weird.

Where were you standing DEANGOLDBARRY!!!?!!??!?!?!?!?!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I was mostly dead center towards the back. Often to the left of the dude in camo holding the videocamera.

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wearing the eyepatch, etc etc...

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

omg that glittery Danelectro is the shit.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have short spiky hair or long, floathing hair?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even know what floathing is.

I lookalikea dis http://www.jerrypippin.com/elvis%203.jpg

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably looked sadder than that though from being at work with broke heart all time.

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the name of the first song they played that had a ton of lyrics? Is that on G&G?

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
The liner notes for Eastanburia's first and possibly only record state that "there was no intention other than having a fun reunion." This vinyl-only limited edition Japanese import picture disc release definitely lives up to that claim, being a percussion and vocal jam session from and all star line-up: Yoshimi P-We (Boredoms / OOIOO), Atr (Boredoms), David Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Yoshida (Psychobaba), and painter Rita Ackermann (Angelblood). Guided by nothing but freedom of the spirit, these sessions possess the spontaneity of a hippy drum circle with a few Eastanburians maintaining a simple cohesive beat and others offering dense but unsophisticated textural rhythms. These stoned-out bongo grooves complement an assortment of non-verbal vocalizations, mostly cackles, moans, monkey hoots, and little girl screams. At first, Eastanburia's jam is quite infectious but eventually starts to lose itself in with an inability to focus on any one musical idea. Fortunately, Yoshimi took these loose improvisations into the studio to transform them into a more coherent, tranced out piece of electronic psych-rock, more like her recent work in the Boredoms and OOIOO. That isn't enough to really make this into a great record, but as a documentation of some cool people jamming in the forest it's cool, and at least the picture disc aspect of this (art from Rita Ackermann) is nice enough that after a few listens you could just convert the record into a nifty looking clock or something. One additional warning: every copy we've seen of this has been slightly warped, again, less of a concern since it's a picture disc. We sent the really badly warped ones back and the ones we have should still play fine, but just so you know...

album cover EMPIRE, ALEC VS MERZBOW

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have that. Actually, I might even have an extra copy.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

DEERET GYGAX WHERE CAN I BUY COMMA LABEL STUFF

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

torrent of this show:

http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=16417

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

bugmenot is the best

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend todd opened up at this show!!

― chaki in charge (chaki), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i missed him! i walked in right as OoioO came on.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://rollerderbysuperstar.com/v-web/b2/images/yoshimi-bot.jpg

― chaki in charge (chaki), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

green + gold reissue Sept. 13

http://www.thrilljockey.com/album.html?title=Gold+and+Green

― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I read the Boredoms listserv too!

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

i read it on one of many useless blogs clogging the interweb. it wasn't boingboign either ;_)

― amon (eman), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

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OoioO - Knitting Factory Hollywood - 11/6/2004