restaurant @ the chat room 3.17.2008

electro-hicks restaurant returned to the chat room last night and if you weren't there, you shoulda been. gtrist/sanger kevin (or craig or greg or troy olaf murrah or whateverthehell he wants to be called) plays slashing slide gee-tar worthy of hound dog taylor while j state thwacks the fire out of his paint store/junkyard percussion rig with wooden dowels that splinter as he plays (chat room mainstay ben rogers thoughtfully offered to get more for him from the home depot) and also handles keybs and samples, sounding for all the world like techno'd out backwoods rustics on bad strychnine. a high point of the set was watching cadillac fraf (who'd performed earlier sitting on a truck in the parking lot; quoth he, "it might not be _good_, but it's _real_," a sentiment i can dig wholeheartedly) and ex-yeti gtrist eric harris dancing like demented okies in front of restaurant's stage. my sweetie took a buncha pics and posted 'em at meezlady.blogspot.com. and she bought copies of all four of their vinyl 7-inches, which we'll be spinning at mi casa for days to come.