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PFFFF(F)T! -- that's "classic" PFFFFT! plus ghostcar founder daniel huffman, who's been touring with the polyphonic spree -- played the fairmount for the first time sunday night. bill pohl citizen patrol opened and wowed the crowd with technically immaculate prog wonderment. my pal ron geida sat in for jeff beck's "diamond dust" and admitted later "i had to practice all week to play one song." (keith wingate, in the audience, kept asking, "where's the melody?") non-snazz aspect: some local losers absconded with chapman stickman rick reid's pedalboard while he was loading out. gotta watch your shit.
daniel brought a heavily mod-ed gibson melody maker, a chromachord, and a pedalboard of michio kurihara-esque dimensions that allowed him to add an array of textures to the sonic canvas. at times it was like standing next to a cathedral organ. he's not just hacking; he's got a great ear and makes astute choices. he seemed to bring out the fire in tony chapman, too. can't wait to hear the recording of this, and hoping daniel makes it out to the chat room when we play there august 24th. we ran off a lot of the crowd at the fairmount that night, but owner sally still dug us (said "the musicians liked it") and levi (the andre/ben of the fairmount) booked dates for us in september and october.
painting the living room yesterday, i was listening to the july 16th edition of kosmik radiation radio (still streamable until the 30th), which had a bunch of psych-funk and other '70s-evocative stuff that kinda reminded me of the way PFFFFT! plays. as i told clay the other night, "our soul has been psychedelicized." or as i told matt yesterday, "we're the anti-sleeplab."
ray came back a day early from mike brown's wedding in west virginia, so we had stoogeprac for the first time with richard hurley (pee pee, guy 2000, blood of the sun) stepping in to replace sir steffin on gtr. richard found out at the last minute, after spending the whole day at nrh2o, but he showed up well prepared, only needing to go over a coupla toons again. just need to make sure we rehearse a coupla times so he can feel comfortable before the stoogeband breaks the seal on the fairmount august 14th. we're all excited about having him on board.
this morning i'm listening to some comets on fire i got from teague -- blue cathedral and field recordings from the sun. these bay area boyzzz have some of what their forefathers from the '60s dead/airplane/quicksilver era had, laced with a heavy dose of japanoise a la high rise/mainliner/boris. on gtr, ethan miller is operating in the same territory as michio kurihara is. me like much.
daniel brought a heavily mod-ed gibson melody maker, a chromachord, and a pedalboard of michio kurihara-esque dimensions that allowed him to add an array of textures to the sonic canvas. at times it was like standing next to a cathedral organ. he's not just hacking; he's got a great ear and makes astute choices. he seemed to bring out the fire in tony chapman, too. can't wait to hear the recording of this, and hoping daniel makes it out to the chat room when we play there august 24th. we ran off a lot of the crowd at the fairmount that night, but owner sally still dug us (said "the musicians liked it") and levi (the andre/ben of the fairmount) booked dates for us in september and october.
painting the living room yesterday, i was listening to the july 16th edition of kosmik radiation radio (still streamable until the 30th), which had a bunch of psych-funk and other '70s-evocative stuff that kinda reminded me of the way PFFFFT! plays. as i told clay the other night, "our soul has been psychedelicized." or as i told matt yesterday, "we're the anti-sleeplab."
ray came back a day early from mike brown's wedding in west virginia, so we had stoogeprac for the first time with richard hurley (pee pee, guy 2000, blood of the sun) stepping in to replace sir steffin on gtr. richard found out at the last minute, after spending the whole day at nrh2o, but he showed up well prepared, only needing to go over a coupla toons again. just need to make sure we rehearse a coupla times so he can feel comfortable before the stoogeband breaks the seal on the fairmount august 14th. we're all excited about having him on board.
this morning i'm listening to some comets on fire i got from teague -- blue cathedral and field recordings from the sun. these bay area boyzzz have some of what their forefathers from the '60s dead/airplane/quicksilver era had, laced with a heavy dose of japanoise a la high rise/mainliner/boris. on gtr, ethan miller is operating in the same territory as michio kurihara is. me like much.
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