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Just wondering wether anyone else tool along a friend/friends to the gig and what they thought of it as well. Obviously we are all gonna go nuts for dino, as fans, but what did neutrals/newbies think of it all?
i liked alexander tucker’s music, but his voice was a bit freaky … kind of like a drone + a bit of a moan … very odd, but not bad … my husband + flying cloud (who were standing either side of me) said, "interesting" in stereo right after he had finished Â
yes, kevin shields was there + so was mike watt + ron asheton Â
the left of the front row was taken up by me, my husband, flying cloud + her boyfriend, leah + his girlfriend Â
there was a guy filming the whole show w/a handheld camera … i was trying to get his attention to ask him if he was phillip virus, but unfortunately he never looked our way  :-
A couple of people on this thread have referred to Alexander Tucker’s set as “droneyâ€? and “self-indulgentâ€?. Well, personally those traits to me are positive. I like to see musicians indulge themselves because sometimes it’s nice to get a bigger picture of what’s inside their head and what’s within their capabilities. If everything was refined and focused music would be boring. Some might say the Melvins’ ‘Stag’ album is self-indulgent (as it includes lots of weird, noisy, unbalanced solo pieces that pretty much outnumber the ‘regular’ songs), but it’s one of my favourites of theirs. And as for “droneyâ€? – well, I listen to Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works) right down to droney doom metal stuff like Sunn0))), Hyatari, Khanate etc. There are many people whose mouths would water at the prospect of droney, psychedelic acoustic folk. I’ll be adding his CD to my, ahem, ‘late-night’ collection.
Plus I hope his critics don’t refer to his pissing about with noise pedals as “self-indulgent�, especially not at a fucking Dinosaur Jr show. J’s style is defined by his mad effects use and loose soloing style, which could be construed also as being self-indulgent.
…..bottom line, however, is that I wish I was mashed that night.
I’ve seen Alexander Tucker twice now and though I agree with the above post regarding other acts, I think he’s just a poor version of better droney-folk acts like Six Organs of Admittance and such. It would have been better in a smaller venue and sitting down, but like this it was just annoying, especially as everyone was tired from the really long wait outside and then again in the venue.
Writing of the venue though, it was my first time there, probably the only bigger venue in London I haven’t visited and my gosh was I impressed. It’s the most over the top yet amazingly stylish place I’ve ever been to. Being able to see the guys play from so many angles and heights was great. And that red colour is really magical too. Might have to go there for a club night sometime even though Club NME are the current residents methinks.
I Don’t think the Support bloke was all that… We arrived half way through his set and it sounded a bit Sigor ros’ish, which is’nt a bad thing but i wanted to Rock out wiv my cock out…. I went with a couple of mates who had never seen Dinosaur before and they absolutely loved it.. Right up the front and did’nt stop jumping around for the whole gig…. Did’nt like the way they opened all the bloody cans of beer as they served them though… My shorts where sodden when I left….. The venue was Delicious.
Yeah, I didn’t understand that either, especially as they weren’t pouring them in plastic glasses or whatever. Buying a couple at once is what I do at the Astoria – saves trying to fight through the crowds. Holding several open cans at once is pretty impossible when there’s a gig on!
"Smallstone " wrote:From what I can gather the gig was late(ish) starting as the band were kinda delayed getting into the country from Dublin (or so I was told). But agreed an earlier start would have been cooler – then I wouldn’t personally have had to get a dodgy night bus and witnessed a gang fight/stabbing!! Jesus – kids these days!! There was claret everywhere…. No one seriously hurt (well the stabbed kid and his mates ran off REALLY fast..).
Still even that couldn’t ruin last night!Roll on that DVD!
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"BUT ANYWAY my main point here was to say that i was talking to lou barlow’s best friend(seriously) and i asked him did he think this was the last we would see of them and he said there was talk of doin something new..
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Yeaoww!! What a great friken show. Waited till 10 o clock for dinosaur to come on. The support guy was pretty cool but my legs were achin and i wanted to see dinosaur so bad so i was quite bored during his set but some nice stuff was happening. The atmousphere was electric, moshers, croudsurfers and it was all good. I croudsurfed a few times and got some pics on my disposible camera. I was in the middle of the floor the whole show with all the action and waited till the end when they played DONT!. It was definatly one of the best gigs i went to and it was better than when i saw em on the 8th june. I also met some norwegian guy in the queue, we had a long chat about music n stuff and then went for a beer afterwards. And nerly got stuck in camden over night!!! Left the pub at 1:00 and camden station was closed so i ran past the prostitutes and drug dealers to morningtion crescent, and got home in one peice, just!
yes, the gig totally rocked. titanic.
and if anyone had chimed in to my previous posts, they could have had one of the two extra all-access passes that I had.
Listen up, people !!
pffft, well i got most of it recorded on my mobile, sounds distorted and low quality. may be a little better once i transfer it to my pc, but you may have to wait a while. Surely there must be a better copy available tho……
hey peeps-settle down-altho’ i have NO inside info-i can practically guarantee that that show was audioed and videoed bigtime-for a show w/ those tunes intact/ it would be weird after all the taping they have done on this tour to leave this one out…
my take anyway
sDinosaur Jr Koko, London
Alexis Petridis
Friday September 2, 2005
The GuardianThis gig was part of the Don’t Look Back season, a series of concerts organised by the people behind the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival; their aim is to keep the customer happy. Each of the groups involved is performing one of their albums in its entirety, claim the organisers, so "there is no danger the favourite song you were hoping to hear won’t be played". But there is also a sense of righting historical wrongs, dredging up largely forgotten albums for reappraisal.
That’s good news for tonight’s participants. Fifteen years ago, Dinosaur Jr were the American alt-rockers most likely to achieve mainstream success, but you wouldn’t know that if you weren’t there at the time. The trio’s chances were scuppered first by personality clashes – bass player Lou Barlow colourfully described leader J Mascis as a "sleazebag snob pig asshole" who "chewed like a cow" – and then by the rise of Nirvana.
Subsequently, Dinosaur Jr were almost obliterated from the history books, which seems both odd and unfair. As tonight’s performance of their 1987 album You’re Living All Over Me makes clear, they were grunge’s harbingers, the first US alt-rock band who dared to meld the intensity of hardcore punk with classic rock influences. The Lung and Tarpit approximate the experience of listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse with your finger jammed on the fast-forward button: a sweet melody buried beneath pummelling drums and dramatic explosions of guitar. If you were minded to nitpick, you might note that on Little Fury Things and Sludgefeast, Dinosaur Jr pioneered the neat trick of surging suddenly from a quiet verse to an ear-splitting chorus, a full year before the Pixies. Despite being borrowed by a raft of later grunge acts, it’s still surprisingly thrilling.Dinosaur Jr were never overburdened with stage presence: on one UK tour, they got out of interacting with the audience at all by playing a tape loop of the words "thank you" between songs. That hasn’t changed. While the band members seem as diffident as ever, however, the music they make seems anything but. "Lost classic" is an overused term, but tonight, that’s precisely what You’re Living All Over Me sounds like.
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