OFF: MQB Milwaukee show

Karen Kusic kkusic at EXECPC.COM
Sat Oct 20 14:17:10 EDT 2001


What a show last night.

I feel honored to have seen MQB play live.  Thanks to the Aural
Innovations and Strange Trips staff for getting the word and the band
out!

It was nice to meet fellow BOC-Ler Dan Witt in person too.

Bummer that the Chicago date got pushed to Wednesday!  More
driving/expenses for the tour members.

http://strange-trips.com/docs/

Jim Lascko seemed happy with things.  Guess there was a problem with one
speaker "popping" so they couldn't crank it as much as they would have
liked to.  Still, it was an amazing wall of sound and light.

Harvey Bainbridge's set was good but the crowd probably spent more time
socializing than really listening.  It was great having Harvey play with
MQB for the encore.  *That* was intense.  Harvey and Hardy with
keyboards cranking.

MQB went on just after midnight and played between 1 1/2 and 2 hours.
"Nebula" and "Marijuana Nightmare" were amazing.  Forgive me for not
getting a song list. They closed with "Beyond the Light" before the
encore with Harvey.  BTL was tremendous.  Really better live than on CD.
Still excellent on CD too of course.

The keyboards overall might have been a little buried in the sound mix
but for the first show of the tour, it went pretty well.

Think there were maybe about 60 people there?  Didn't get a true door
count.

And, the crowd was a "Who's Who" of Milwaukee spacerock.  ;)

Grant and Brian from F/i!
http://www.execpc.com/~bwnsng/fi.html
They *really* enjoyed the show.

Bill Kopecky of Kopecky turned out too.
http://kopecky.8m.com/
He and the F/i guys mentioned JJ since they both have connections with
him.  JJ was in F/i for awhile and the Kopecky brothers are having their
live CD release party tonight at JJ's bar in Racine, WI.

Hope more BOC-L list members get to catch the tour and the Strange Daze
festival.

Spacerock lives.

Karen



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