Month: April 2009

Until someone uploads some video of Brian Jonestown Massacre’s tremendously gritty it’s-Medway-1982-or-1965 set (especially the “When Jokers Attack” blow out) if I had to pick a favorite moment from yesterday it would be this (unsurprisingly)

For the full effect, imagine that a truck-sized Tesla coil is shooting off to your right and a sixty foot flaming tiki torch spire is outgassing behind you.

Two other things worth taking a picture of…

Other favorites: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (especially their cover of “Human Fly”), Peter Bjorn and John (who I knew nothing about until yesterday), Public Enemy (of course), the east side Lemonade stand, and the lentil curry stand next to it.

It sounded about how it looked and vice versa…

I wasn’t sure if the room acoustics of the El Rey would be completely overwhelmed by the sound, but it was actually easier to hear what was going on now than at the Total World Anhiliation of the Santa Monica show last year. The band was looser, false starting a couple times, occasionally smiling, and utterly killing it with all the power of an asteroid strike. Deb and Colm don’t nearly as enough credit as they should.

More photos on Flickr.

And to repost: Here are the details of Kevin’s guitar set-up and the band’s sound design.