Kinski, Daughters Of The Sun, Thunderbolt Pagoda, Disasteratti. Mpls. Tonight.
 

Just in case more than three people from Minneapolis read this thing.

Hmm. Sounds interesting. I'm going to be in the cities tonight.

I would come, but I'm already going to see Lydia Lunch this evening.

Have a great time though.

have fun, slay them all onstage.

Can't wait to see Kinski!
It's been too long.

It was a good time, but sparsely attended. Two big shows at other venues, plus a lot of people were pretty much "partied out" after the previous evening's Halloween debauchery.
I'm just coming in right now. It's 3:30 AM.
I enjoyed the other two bands, and our set went well.
Kinski thanked us from the stage for letting them use our "awesome gear," which sounded great in sound check and for our set.
Then one of the amps cut out, and I had to get the backup head, which doesn't sound as good.
Then Chris, Matthew and Lucy each had successive pedal and cable problems beyond the initial amplifier failure. I was waiting to see if the drum set would explode just to top it all off.
They rose above it and played a great set anyway, but between the poor attendance and the gear I had arranged for them presenting technical difficulties, I felt pretty bad/stupid.

CHOUT was there though, and I got to meet his boss too.
Guy seems like a real slavedriver.

i just shit myself... i had a ban about 10 years ago called daughters of the swan...... the thread title got my attention. we pre dated liars by 7 years or post dated swans by about 20 !

That sucks.....the show was a steal.

I wish I could have come to your show. Lydia Lunch was distinctly underwhelming.

I had to leave about the time you were grabbing some gear for the guitar player when your amp cut out...too bad I hadn't heard them before so it wasn't a good intro to them, not meant in a bad way, of course, cuz I like when things go wrong at shows...the bow sounded cool on the bass at the beginning.
Did your Marshall break? I hope not.
Wasn't fuckin' Hold Steady playing across town? bleech.

Do not mention the Costanza Rock in my presence.
I don't think my Marshall is broken; probably just a tube thing and I have another matched set ready to go. If not that, my bandmate is an electronics and amplification god and he will get to the bottom of this in about nothing flat.

It was disappointing to me that it had to happen like that, though; I mean, these people are my friends and I was all "oh yeah, we've got tons of good shit you guys can use and it sounds awesome blahblahblah," and then the stuff has to be all temperamental. At least we had a backup, but that backup doesn't have the headroom that a guitarist like Chris needs to do what he does.
On a good day, that band is unstoppable.

poorly attended shows of great bands are a shame.

gear is totally unreliable, i bet the kinski guys have enough mileage onstage to know shit like that happens.

Yeah, but it was crazy. It wasn't even just our stuff; each one of them (aside from Barrett on drums) had problems with their cables, pedals, instruments or amplifiers at some point during the set.
It was a harmonic convergence of technical horrors.

Oooh! Bad gear sucks Mr Clone. Better luck next time.



Is Video Hysterie any good? Haven't seen that yet.

i've had a gig like that once, we're about to start the first song, i say to the crowd "hey, we're--" and my cellphone starts ringing, didn't answer it, continue introducing my band, we launch into the first song, my strap comes loose, one of my pedals or cables starts messing up, the other guitar players' amp gets turned off by itself, i go to sing into the mic and the stand falls down, someone unplugged my amp, the drummer drops his drumstick all the way to the front of the stage, the other guitar player's pedalboard shorts out or something...all in and out, my strap easily snapped three different times. by the end of our last song, the fucking lights go out and i ended up screaming to the air with just the drums backing me. i was quite frustrated but the other guys in the band were like "we did well" and other people dug the show.