im in love.

VERY not crap. Great to see live.

I was in a record store in NYC when one of the clerks put on "history is what's happening." I high fived that son of a gun.

this is a very good band, in all permutations.

only thing i ever heard from this band was when i saw them in chicago several years back, opening for fugazi. i have to say, they fucking *brought it*. they played a most powerful show that night. seventy thumbs up.

I was at that show too. If I remember correctly, their plane was late. That was the first time I had heard them as well. They won me over real quick. I remember being blown away when the bass player did some crazy shit with harmonics near the bridge.

totally NOT CRAP

I brought one "Ex" album to Asia with me and some twisted freak ripped it off. Perhaps The Ex would support such reappropiation though, post-Marxist Anarchists that they are.

Awesome. I love everything about them except the more traditionallyinfluenced folk stuff that the drummer sometimes sings. That stuff doesn't do it for me I have to confess. The old guitarist for Nomeansno, Andy Kerr, married the drummer (and subsequently left NMN), moving to Holland. Musicians of the world disperse!

so much not crap it's almost gone all the way around to become crap.

i've seen some pretty badass live shows. jsbx, hot snakes, fugazi, to name a few. but nothing beats the ex. i saw them in dec. of '99 touring for starters and alternators (anyone notice steve's pic in the liner notes of that and dizzy spells, yeah i know he recorded 'em.) but anyways, fugazi got blown off the stage by the ex. no doubt.

one guitar player never opened his eyes, and broke about every string during the set. and replaced many during the set. he finished with two strings. even the bassplayer broke a string. g.w. sok would stand by the side of the stage while the band kicked all ass. the intricate noise they made was just astounding. i even liked the folky songs the drummer sang. i still like them.

i saw french toast live awhile back and was talking to jerry busher about playing with the ex on that tour and he said, "it was great to play with them and watch them play every night. but it was intimidating b/c we knew we had to go on next and we weren't sure we could follow it."

i've yet to see/hear them w/ the new bassplayer, but am intrigued by an upright being in that band. they seem too electric to pull off such a thing, but friends who have seen/heard say it's great. i hope she does a lot of arco.

p.s.- way off topic i know, but anyone here like big lazy, the bowed bass parts rock. plus they cover a mingus tune on the last album. it's badass.

they are amazing and after 25 years (!) still so powerful and original!!! a bit weird. not crap.

i've yet to see/hear them w/ the new bassplayer, but am intrigued by an upright being in that band. they seem too electric to pull off such a thing, but friends who have seen/heard say it's great.

she's great, and i liked the old bass player a lot

very powerful upright player

it's pretty weird to watch a band play two shows with shellac and fugazi and steal both of them

i have to say i like the ex proper a lot more than the ex orkest stuff

the ex orkest wasn't bad, it just didn't have much of the emotional pull that the ex playing in their usual format does

the ex makes me as happy to be alive as any live music i've seen

I was at the second of the FugExLac shows in Chicago. I had heard a little about The Ex before (mostly in the "they're the Dutch Crass" vein) but I'd not heard any of there music. If I remember correctly, they opened with 'Time Flies' and I was loving it by the fifth note and was a convert for life by the end of the song.