[atlantaprog] Re: OK, *where was everybody*?

OK, *where was everybody*?Glad you had fun Jeff..didn't Chris show up?  BTW: 
You should be going to see Little Atlas on Saturday night;)  Didn't you like 
Mindworm? If so I think you might like Little Atlas. :-)

PEACE
Beth
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Blanks 
  To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:50 AM
  Subject: [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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