germ war - yeah, eating dinner and taking too long to play songs is gimmicky. when i saw oxes they had the boxes because the stage wasn't high enough and there were about 400-500 kids there, so they used them and it didn't come off gimmicky. as far as drooling, i assumed they were just really fucked up and if you can play well and be almost dead at the same time i usually enjoy it more. they showed up to a party we were at around 4am completely fucked up. it was funny

anyway that's the only time i've ever seen them, it was genuinely enjoyable.

the Classical wrote:
wow!

The show I saw was strange because they were a band I had never heard of, no one at the show knew anything about them, I don't think anyone really liked it (I bought a single, but I don't remember what I thought of it at the time) and I have never heard anything about them since, until right now. It was like the just sort of dropped in from nowhere and then disappeared.

are they from Chicago? I for some reason thought they were from Germany, but as I recently played this same prank an audience someone could have been messing w/ me

also:shellac's "worst show ever" has to be a good story

happy gridcore are from hamburg, germany. they are still around.

Animal Collective, at the St. Louis Arts Center, around 2002...7 or 8 people using way too much vocal processing with power electronics in a small space with almost no lights and the crappiest little PA imaginable. The space they created there was indescribable, with no theatrics...

I don't know but for some reason none of these bands seem very weird to me. Generally they're all playing pretty standard 'indie-rock-band' instrumentation.

I mean I think of Earshot who I saw at Hampshire college in like 87 and they wore masks - the singers mask was home made plaster and the jaw was a seperate part and they had 2 drummers both of whom had a ton of electronic drums which they used to sound good not dumb.

I saw the Butthole Surfers on the Widowermaker tour and Gibby lit his hand on fire and they had footage of war and vasectomies and shit projected over on them.

Recently I think of Xiu Xiu because they use Harmonium, Keyboards, Sequencers, Mandolin, Guitar, Autoharp and a bunch of gongs and bells, and they have a whole board with bicycle bells that they've built into this very cool instrument and they even have a cheap mic and a bowl of rocks that they 'play' and it all comes of sounding like cohesive goth-ish pop music......

But all that still sounds pretty tame. Doesn't anyone have any stories about some really fucked up shit?

How about the Brotzmann Chicago ten-tet? Anyone else see that? I'm not even a fan of free jazz but they BLEW MY MIND at the Chicago Cultural Center a couple years back. Joe McPhee did a pocket trumpet solo with the spit valve open so it was basically just air the entire time and it went on for like 5 minutes but it was actually musical and amazing......

Still I want to hear about group with like bagpipes, accordion, citar, viola, and a chorus of throat singers.......

Borbetomagus. All acoustic, and alarmingly loud. Wow.

I saw something at the Bottle where a guy had two hotplates, two kettles of boiling water and blocks of dry ice. When he'd press the hot kettles against the dry ice it would make a screaming sound. I think Alan Licht played guitar and Fred Lonberg-Holm placed contact mics on his cello but never actually played it...... Still, I don't feel like that was that weird.

n.c. wrote:Still I want to hear about group with like bagpipes, accordion, citar, viola, and a chorus of throat singers.......

sonds almost like Lozenge. i wanna say the last time i saw them was at the Big Horse, but that can't be right. but i'm pretty sure it is. weird instrumentation and all (scrap metal percussion, amplified accordion, amplified violin, fretless bass being played by a guy with a broken foot, etc) but i don't know that i would call it a "weirdest show ever" sorta thing.

how about a guy with all kinda meat wrapped against his body with saran wrap, sticking syringes into the meat, and twirling nunchucks? and the band backing him is a hardcore punk rock 3-piece... plus a horn section. i wasn't there to see it live, as it happened in one of the Carolinas years before i met them, but i saw the video, and the looks on crowd's faces are pretty funny sometimes.

I will check out the next Lozenge show.

n.c. wrote:I will check out the next Lozenge show.

i think it may be too late.

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewto ... ht=lozenge

i love rich @ the fireside bowl
wierdest band i ever did see