I nearly blogged something else today, but this suits my mood better at the moment. Yes, working too late too often lately ...
Anyway, some years ago Billinger and I tagged along with his brother-in-law John to see a bunch of Japanese bands play at the Knitting Factory. Among the bands performing was the brilliant "Gelatine":
Let's Go Home Soon - Gelatine
It was an all-out manic assault of music and style. The guitarists were styled out somewhere in between psychedelic 70s (one of them had a way-oversized clown afro) and GWAR. The keyboardist "Aya" (I can't believe I remember this) was a bouncy, sugar-rush blur, and the lead singer was a howling punk tornado. The final bars of "Let's Go Home Soon" is as urgent and soul-wrenching as the pleading sounds of R&B ecstasy circa '72.
Enjoy. LET'S GO HOME SOON
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2 comments:
I guess you had to be there.
Awwwww ... come on, that was great. I was just singing it this morning
(Just joking)
I recall that the second band performed in strange, cult-like outfits and gas masks ... reminding me of the Aum Shinrikyo
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