HW: Litmus Gig

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

That was excellent :)  A few quick notes before I embark on the
highly rock'n'roll activity of going on holiday with my mother-in-
law .... ;)

A lineup of guitar/bass/drums/ and 2 electronic noise makers --
that's the spacerock action there :)  Spacey noodly intros that set a
contemplative mood and then explode into frenzies of consciousness-
obliterating, rocket-powered blanga.

Good :)

Top notch lights!  All there were were some random projections onto a
screen at the back and a combo of one strobe/one multi-beam-coloured-
flower-thing stationed on the stage in front of and below the bass
drum.  Oh, and a smoke machine.  So, basically, a hell of a lot of
the time there was just this wash of white or coloured light with
random beams shooting past your ears while a wall of blanga swept
over you.

Good :)

Excellent bass playing, despite it not being a Rick ;)  Sometimes I
thought there could be more wah on the guitar, but sometimes I
thought it was perfect -- which means that in reality the amount of
wah deployed must have been pretty excessive :)  Drumming was fast
and tight and the dual-swoosh dudes on the wings filled in all the
spaces they should.  Only hiccup sound wise really was the vocals
were pretty indistinct (stage announcements could have been in
Venusian for all I knew), but if the worst thing one can find to say
is that the live vocals in a small venue were kinda incomprensible --
well, what do you expect?

They took a bit to warm up, I thought, but once they were going, they
were really going.  There were definitely a few moments where you
thought, "Damn, that's cool!  I wish I was doing that!", and what
more's to ask?

Ah, I would also note that their CD sounds better on my stereo than
on Jon's :)  But then I think most CDs sound better on my stereo than
they do anywhere else, mostly by virtue of location :)

Hope to see Litmus again!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/