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902

Do you know horse latitudes? They were on that label I think, local band here and buddies of mine.

903

Yeah Iā€™ve put my time in a few doom/sludge/sludge-gaze or whatever people started calling it

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904

I saw Michael Gira solo in a sweltering Water Ratsā€™ club in Kingā€™s Cross where he demanded that the venue turned the lights up full and the air conditioning off. It was packed to the rafters and he achieved a similar thing, but alone with an acoustic guitar.

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905

Codeine were fantastic, one of those bands I wish I could have seen in their prime, up there with A.R. Kane, Sleep and The Butthole Surfers as far as bands I could have seen live if I was a few years older. At least I got to see Sun City Girls a couple times (great) and Sonic Youth once (meh).

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906

Yeah sounds familiar. I shared a practice space with them all, including we are knuckledraggers and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs pigs pigs pigs

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907

Cool bands. I would have wished to tour England with my current band at some point, nyt brexit put an end to that plan.

908

I saw sonic youth in London I think their last tour, and they where absolutely on fire, played such a great set ending with a massively abridged version of Death Valley 69

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909

Yeah man brexit had really fucked everything up
For us. Iā€™m trying to get a band together and new rehearsal space to play krautrock/psyched kinda stuff just for a laugh, me an my friend are gonna re record all the early spacemen 3 demos and albums on my 4 track and see if we sound better

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910

Yeah, itā€™s more personal taste. The only Sonic Youth that I was ever really in to was Shaking Hell. I saw them because they were playing on the same bill with Ghost (the Japanese psych one) and Acid Mothers Temple. Ghost were one of the best live acts Iā€™ve ever seen.

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911

We have a tear drop, I have a mustang I just canā€™t wait to be screaming the sooooooound of confusioooooooon

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912

I saw the Buttholes one at The Forum (mmm, OK), at a secret pre-Reading gig at the Powerhaus (ex Robey) in Finsbury Park (utterly amazing, and Coil were in the audience in their pagan teletubby suitsā€¦) then at a sort-of reunion at the Forum with School of Rock and they were astounding, if utterly fried. But my wife saw them loads of times in the '80s across America in venues so packed the furnishings started collapsing.

Saw Sun City Girls onceā€¦ somewhere, and they got me hooked ; Sonic Youth Iā€™ve seen a few times and theyā€™ve always been variable, though the closing set they did as the sun went down at a festival in Orange County where all their gear was stolen and they had to borrow basically every other actā€™s gear was a really powerful gig.

When was that? I think I missed that tour. Pretty much everything after Goo has been a bit meh for me.

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913

Good grief yes and yes again; so righteously out there. Acid Mothers too can be utterly blistering, especially in the basement of a pub in Montpellier with about 200 people jammed into a tiny space.

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914

you guys have discovered the best way to kill this thread for good :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

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915

just listening to rather ripped, which imo was a return to form. great rock songs from start to finish, like goo but more mellow.

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916

Mainliner? I like boris too, altho not all of it.

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917

I didnā€™t mind Murray st, sonic nurse was ok. But luckily they played mostly stuff from bad moon rising, evol, sister, daydream nation, and goo/ experimental jet set. It was the best set list they could of played

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918

Actually, Experimental Jet Set was pretty good too, and some of Washing Machine. Sounds like a good gig.

Yeah, in parts, and I agree about Boris - they do whatever they do really well, but I only like about half of it personally (a bit like Boredoms).

919

Sounds qualityā€™s borked too.

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920

Coil is another one that would be amazing to see. At least I got to see Spinal Tap on the Break Like the Wind tour as a kid, and Link Wray.

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921

Yeah, having known the drummer from boredoms, and went from being friends to him being convinced I was shagging his wife (I wasnā€™t, I was 28 at the time she was in her 40ā€™s with kids, she was shagging someone older who had some coin)
I donā€™t listen to them much. I always used to love melt banana live

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