San Francisco scene report

[Steven Skane]

I care. I care a lot.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: OFF: San Francisco scene report


> "We are Motorhead ... and we're here to kick your ass!"
>
> And they did, on friday night!  Great set (20 songs, plus "Ace of Spades"
> & "Overkill" encore).  Lemmy's looking/sounding great.  Normally, hearing
a
> band cover "God Save the Queen" seems a bit overdone, like hearing a bar
> band cover of "Satisfaction" or something.  But when you realize that it
> was Lemmy influencing Lydon, and (mostly) NOT the other way around, it
> makes a lot of sense.  Phil Campbell's Line 6 stacks gain points for the
> blinky lights, but lose points for the thin sound and cheesy digital
> flanger (but this is Motorhead we're talking about ... who CARES what the
> guitar sounds like?).  Keith Graakl is completely correct that Lemmy's
> 4004LK signature bass looks more burgundy than walnut under stage lights.
> At a couple times, at the right angle, I could make out the carved top,
but
> only for a brief moment (my bandmates had to put up with me whining, "but
I
> want miiiiine!").  And some older guy behind me yelled, "Play some
> Hawkwind!" ;^)  (At least I thought I heard that ... if you're a
> listmember, I was the skinny longhaired guy bobbing [not quite harsh
enough
> to be banging - my neck wasn't sore the next day] his head in front of
you.)
>
> And yesterday evening, I went to check out a couple of local bands I'm
> friends with at the Hemlock Tavern, the coolest new bar in SF.  Mike
> Desert, guitarst/singer of former Man's Ruin recording artists, the Jack
> Saints, paid tribute to the fact that 'Doremi Fasol Latido' is on the
> jukebox by throwing in Nik's "Watching The Grass Grow" intro ("We are the
> survivors ... the eternal survivors ...") before one of their songs (they
> also covered Radio Birdman's "What Gives" and "The Wind And More" by Roky
> Erickson).
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>
> P.S. And on a completely unrelated subject, DON'T buy the 'Pink Jacket
> Required' Shagrat LP on Arkama.  Paul Rudolph is NOT on it.  If Twink is
> really on it, it's only because he dubbed himself on 30 years after the
> fact.  The Shagrat album to get is the CD on Captain Trip, and the non-
> Shagrat tracks on the Arkama LP are the same as on 'Think Pink'.  It takes
> a lot for me to say I was ripped off (I'm *glad* I shelled out the cash
> for 'Glastonbury 90', 'Text of Festival', even the pretty-awful 'Pinkwind'
> album), but in buying this album ... I was ripped off (see
> http://www.pinkfairies.fsnet.co.uk/twank.html and
> http://www.arsydd.btinternet.co.uk/lazfe.html).