Thursday, May. 01, 2003 - 10:55 am
Now Playing: Radiohead "Back Drifts"
Radiohead is quietly creeping out of my bedroom, and barely making it's way into my office. Josh gave me the new Radiohead last night, and let's just say that from the time I got home last night, up until now, this CD has been on constant repeat. What a fantastic album. I always get so excited when a new Radiohead record comes out.
So, last night was one for the books. The Geek Show stopped into my work last night, and I was fortunate enough to see Mondo Generator, Skeleton Key, Melvins, and Tomahawk. Holy fucking shit, what a show. Nick Oliveri from Queens of the Stone Age was up first with his side band, Mondo Generator. Goddamn..they rocked. The opened with a Queens of the Stone Age song, and proceeded to do 2 more throughout their set (they even closed with "Tension Fade," my favorite Queens song). They also played "I Want You To Die," which is the best song on the Dwarves "Come Clean" record.
Skeleton Key was next up, and I was totally blown away by them. They have a drummer and a "trash-kit" player...a guy who plays a drum kit made up of pots, pans, street signs, chairs, oxygen & propane tanks, etc. This guy was incredible...he didn't sit down for the entire set, and was dancing and jumping around as he would bang on his "drums." At the end of the last song, he busts out a Superman pogo stick, bounces on it for a minute, and then crashes right into his kit, knocking everything over. While on stage, the band said "in true punk rokc fashion, we need a place to stay tonight, so if anyone doesn't mind us crashing on their floors, come see me...I'll be by the merch booth after we're done." So of course I offered them a place to stay. I ended up getting pretty friendly with Erik, their lead singer. We chatted with each other for a better part of the night...he was super cool.
Melvins and Tomahawk were amazing as usual. The new Tomahawk stuff sounded incredible. I took my buddy Brian to the show, and he brought me a burned copy of the new Tomahawk record, plus a live/rarities Tomahawk bootleg. About the same time he gave me that, my boss gave me an actual copy of the new Tomahawk record, so now I have 2. The first 5 songs or so are incredible...if I could stop listening to this damn Radiohead album, maybe I could listen to Tomahawk a little more.
I bought the Melvins trilogy on vinyl. The trilogy is the 3 albums they released back to back in 2000. Ipecac (Patton's label) issued them on limited edition vinyl, sold only as a set. They've been "out of print" for 2 years, but apparently they found the last 100 copies in a warehouse somewhere, and decided to sell them off. I paid $50, but I got "Maggot," "Crybaby," and "Bootlicker" all on limited edition picture disc vinyl. And the pictures on the records are so offensive, I love it. "The Maggot" has a star of david on one side, and a Swastika on the other. "The Bootlicker" has the Black Panthers logo on one side, and the white supremacy logo on the other. And "The Crybaby" has a cross on one side, and the satanic star on the other. I love it.
After the show was over, I went to the Rock to see Slow To Surface play. Those guys are probably about the best band in Vegas. Why they're not huge already is beyond me.
I drank too much last night, and I'm hurting now.
But what a fucking cool night.
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