Saturday, October 11, 2008

further sluggage

i first encountered tony ca. '99, when i "interviewed" him (via e-mail) for the i-94 bar while he was in the hydromatics with scott morgan and nicke hellacopter. (in europe, he's also well known as the main guy in 'riginal dutch punks the nitwitz.) when i finally met him in person at sxsw in 2003, he gave me a copy of the hydromatics "dangerous"/"heaven" 7-inch that he released, which i'm now happy to say i can listen to at mi casa since i got a turntable. i got to see tony play at club 505 with a band called the spades, whose singer benvis had the best line of the weekend (during their soundcheck, to the soundguy): "can you speak dutch, please?" as previously mentioned, he's 6'4", and he wears his les paul lower than jimmy page, even, as a result of which he holds it almost vertical when he plays -- quite a memorable sight.

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