March 2008 Archives

legendary 'krautrock'/'kosmische music' pioneers CLUSTER are touring throughout california in May, playing in LA, Big Sur, Santa Cruz and San Francisco! I'm totally psyched for these shows and triple double extra infinity psyched that i have the honor of opening up for these guys in San Francisco (5/25/08)....also playing these gigs are a slew of killer west coast trippers: Tussle, Arp, Jonhas Reinhart, Wooden Shjips, Ariel Pink, Howlin' Rain etc etc....

there is extensively informative micro-site built just for this tour HERE with info on cluster, the shows, the opening bands, the venues, accommodations for travels to the shows, etc etc....go check it out!!!!!

visual proof of harsh realities

video proof that it wasn't nearly as harsh as the photo would indicate. actually, it was really really fun (thanks Sonia from comments!)

White Rainbow Adam Forkner Pauly Shore Interview from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.
i sorta feel bad i wasn't more OMG OMG ITS PAULY SHORE...he caught me off guard. i feel like i might have been a little rude to him...SORRY PAUL!!! i should have given you a better 'in' to make some more cool jokes with me....regardless, thanks for making my day/week/month/year/life! i hope you're cool we put this up on the internets...
i was getting interviewed by mike from analogmonkey (who are a rad team of people making a documentary about the tour we were just on)...check out more awesome music footage (including a KILLLER valet live set in HD) on their vimeo and/or their youtube

thanks for catching this special moment, mike!

and it's true, we did meet john norris earlier in the tour (and again at sxsw!), and he is a very nice, very cool dude.

just back from tour....shit was long and fun and exhausting....

But the piste de résistance had to be the encore return. After Forkner, sounding “like Larry the Cable Guy”, egged the crowd into shouting for Cox’s return, the whole group returned shirtless – including drummer Stephanie Macksey and bassist Honey Owens (of first opener, Valet), and Owens wasn’t wearing even wearing a bra (“when you’re pushing forty, you just gotta let it all hang out” – she did then tie her shirt’s arms around her neck, covering herself by wearing it like an apron). Yes, you got to see Cox’s ultra-skinny torso, but he was anything but ashamed, crashing guitars with Forkner and wailing on an unfamiliar new number, going so far as to get on his knees at the front of the stage and play to the light of a fan’s encore flame. Not the show you’d expect, not a show you’d forget…

oh the memories.......