scissor shock live at the cinemat youtube videos for the fansss
 

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnAVX8J6Yk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awfGysP3-Q

That's Scissor Shock's set from the other day; we have tons of our stuff on VHS but this was the first one filmed by someone with a camera capable of putting directly onto the internet. Technology! Anyway, this was from Oct 22nd in Bloomington, Indiana at the Cinemat with 4k (a guy with a contact mic'd drill and contact mic'd cinder block going at it) and noisehardcore legends Hentai Lacerator (who I think also got filmed; they were great! I hope their shit gets posted on youtube). Hurry up and watch it and leave stupid comments before Porky replies, "YOU ADVERTISE YOUR BAND TOO MUCH!"

Is that a micro-cover of EE - "tongue tied" at 1:22 in the first vid?? :D

Hahaha.

No, that's just my style!... but.. you know what's really odd? I was just learning to play that song the other day (I couldn't figure out a few of the notes) -- like, literally, two days before that show. I'm thinking of doing a ukelele cover of it for a scissor shock covers album. Heh.

Shit like that (weird coincedences) happens to me all the time.

Yeah, actually it's a pretty common (not as in boring or too predictable) "mono string" kind of riff. Pretty nice vids, I like better part.2 . How was the audience?

Yeah, the whole idea was to play these two really fast, noisey songs and then play a really long, slow song. It's funny, there are a few fuckups, but it actually sounds pretty much like I had planned it to. (though we end the second song a few seconds early, which I noted haha)

The audience was surprisingly receptive and friendly. I mean, this was a college town, which I love (hot smart Asian chicks + people with open minds = me happy). Playing in my hometown or.. some OTHER towns (we're not a bar band)... results in people walking out after a few minutes or people yelling insults. I have a few videos of that, one where someone yelled, "WHY THE FUCK'S THERE A DRUM MACHINE COULDN'T FIND A DRUMMER? FUCKING TECHNO BULLSHIT" Which was funny, cuz the dude was wearing a Ministry shirt (though it was "Dark Side of the Spoon" so who knows...)!

Here, everyone was really happy and 75% of the crowd (it wasn't a big crowd, but...) asked me for CD's afterwards. Which is even funnier, because I didn't bother bringing any CD's since the last few shows, no one bought any! Hahaha. Strange. It made me very happy, though, to know that -- while my home town may be full of close-minded folks who only care about girlpants bands -- I can travel 20 minutes into another town and have an amazing time with some awesome people with open minds. Excellent.

My present audience are the crickets in my basement.
They sound pretty receptive too coz they stop making noises as soon as i start playing. ha ha.
No, seriously, my project is born (and will most likely be raised) as a no-live-shows kind of thing. I had fun playing live with my ex-band, but this time (being mainly solo stuff) no live. I need to put together a decent site or something just to share stuff, and maybe send out some "real" copies. But first, guess I need to record something decent hah a.
I never played a gig in my hometown, now that I think about "going to another city" to play...weird, but not too weird since all my bandmates are from a city 50km away from here and we had a practice space there. So yeah, I was the "foreign one". Sorry for the pointless rant.

My biggest problem, being a little band not funded by any kind of label, is definitely traveling to other places -- driving all that way, carrying all that shit in, setting up for forever, and then the people in the audience probably not caring at all. I mean, I watch EVERY BAND, even if I don't like them, if I know they traveled at all (if they're just some local KoRn-covering band, fuck 'em) -- I want to give them respect, even if they don't give me any. On the bright side, I've met a lot of cool-ass people.

I actually DON'T enjoy playing live at all, but ... people want me to, so I do. Haha. It was one of those things I thought I'd really like, but then when I actually did it 100 times, I was like, "Wow..." It kinda gets old. Though I guess I'd rather do it than stocking shelves like I do at my other job.. heh.

Good luck with your project and thanks for watching these vids! I haven't even seen them yet, since I'm currently on dialup at my house and it takes forever to load them.

Man. Youtube. Scissor Shock Has Sold Out! Next The Deluxe Editions And The Appearances On Conan!

dude. Scissor Shock rules!!! I could never be bothered to check you guys out, but this is too awesome!

thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiuiKpOQitg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSErGItdzUY

that's hentai lacerator's set from the same show; they were great, check it out...

hentai lacerator





fuck! thats good! thats real good!

paul: i uploaded their album to the yahoo group a few months ago, i think the link is still good.

adam: did you say hi to robert for me? glad you had a great show, i'll watch those videos later, ss and hl are kinda the closest monosodic has for peers. i certainly admire both bands, wish i could have been there (plus asian chicks!!!).

Yeah, we actually did talk about Marcos Hassan!

hahahaha, no shit!

i need to get the monosodic live action going.

Haha! I totally heard that.


Awesome, Adam!

''YOU ADVERTISE YOUR BAND TOO MUCH!"

Jokes aside, i haven't got the time to watch it right now as I'm off in 5 minutes, but I'll try watching them another day.

Cool, thanks everyone.

ha ha , dollarssss!

Dollars are good!

I went and saw Polysics last night. They were great. I'm seeing Melt Banana this Tuesday. Can't wait.

Europe is pretty cool, but we (well, we f*ckin italians, at least) can only dream the assault of holy noise you guys in usa can witness in certain time-spans.

fucking awesome!
how much of the live stuff is improvised?
i also saw the "waterbeds are boring" video
also great!
thanks for posting.
i need to get me some scissor shock...

Hahah, yeah, we didn't make that video -- they're just fans of ours, I guess.

Hmm.. most of it wasn't improvised, except the trombone parts probably. He just kinda plays whatever. I knew exactly what I was going to play/say for every part. But... you know.. we did end the last song 3 seconds early. Haha. Um.. actually, we were supposed to have a live drummer playing along to the electronic parts AND another guitar player too.. but they didn't show up. One time, we had 18 people onstage. I just kinda teach everyone the songs, but I let them kinda do whatever they want, but they all have to follow the drum beats. So, it all sounds like they're playing along to the same song but playing completely different things. Luckily, the 2 people I was playing with that night, they knew exactly waht I'd be playing, so they played along to it quite well.

Thanks for the compliments.

melt banana is playing with one of my fav local bands...very excited

yep, got it! sound. a rare oversight!! thanks marcos!