[atlantaprog] OK, *where was everybody*?

'Cuz you missed being *cruelly slain* by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at the Echo Lounge last night! For shame, for shame!

Most of the music hasn't been recorded yet (at least not in the studio), but it's every bit as good. Highlights included the opener, "The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion"; "Industrial Society and its Future" (announced *during* the tune at a suitable point of relative repose); a piece who's name wasn't announced having to do with the Italian Futurists; and "Sleep is Wrong", the only piece from *Grand Opening And Closing* to be played in the set.

Opening were Twittering Machine, a local band in a sort of "indie-cabaret" style featuring cello, female vocals, and Gretsch guitar; and Faun Fables, a kind of eccentric "dark folk" duo featuring singer/guitarist Dawn McCarthy and SGM's Nils Frykdahl (merely on whose *hair* I'd have to spend an entire paragraph).

BBTW, yes, Nils *can* sing--in fact last night he did more singing than yelling. (When he speaks on stage, he sounds a bit like Kelsey Grammer!) Oh, yeah--and with Faun Fables, he plays...

the *flute*.

Yep, the flute. He's pretty good, too. (He also plays the tin whistle on a couple of tunes, and a hammered autoharp on one, even while sticking to acoustic guitar for most of FF's set.) I suspect that if he played the flute with SGM, we'd have a good idea of how Ian Anderson struck our parents in 1971. ;-)

Lots of CD's by SGM and related acts on sale, sold by the group themselves. I bought SGM's live album and Species Being's *Orgone Therapy* (led by former SGM drummer and current manager Frank Grau) from violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstadt (who can also really sing). I might've approached Moe! Staiano, but I don't think he would've replied--he did entire transactions with other audience members without saying a word.

In any event, they're playing the New Brookland Tavern in Columbia on Saturday night, so if anyone's up for a road trip, let me know!

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