Comments on: Wavves of Dread

By: tacotron

tacotron — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:25:04 +0000

ha wow, that is pretty lame, as they look like a bunch of “dirty” oafs themselves. maybe they should be forced to play a show at the gaza strip while their own countrymen do a flyby and bomb the shit out of them haha.
No Age, while not chaotic(performance wise), are totally genuine dudes which is one reason I like them a lot.

By: AttF

AttF — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:28:26 +0000

With Monotonix, that “chaos” is part of their rehearsed shtick. Every show involves the singer running on top of the bar/crowd, drums are disassembled and reassembled in the crowd or in the street outside the venue, etc.

My old band opened for them a few years back to a packed house in Oakland. When the show was over, all the openers were handed $24 each. When asked where the rest the door money went (a few hundred dollars), we were told that Monotonix took it all. Another friend of mine hosted a show of theirs in New Nexico. After destroying the venue/his house with their act, they scoffed at an offer to stay there because it
“too dirty.” Not quite the punk rock ethos I was raised on………….sorry to digress.

By: tacotron

tacotron — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:28:06 +0000

thats awesome! haha. I saw a band called monotonix in Davis, and the singer poured tapatio on his face(to pretend it was blood) thinking it was ketchup and ended up screaming for water after it went in his eyes. Things then fell apart in a good way, and the drummer ended up giving everyone a piece of his drum kit to bang on. Not a favorite band of mine, but this show ruled!

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:56:00 +0000

Are you kidding me? I love when unpredictable things happen at shows. Which is why, though I would've liked to have seen Wavves, I'm glad I saw Crazy Band that night instead. The Bay Bridged explains: Crazy Band (a self-styled obscurity from L.A.) began the night on a stage propped with two foot piles of crumpled newspaper, random billboard flyers, and basically just shit everywhere. As the band started (and by started, I mean each musician sounded like they were playing a different song while simultaneously talking to one another in valley-girl-on-crack dialect), their leader of ceremonies, sporting various florescent traffic guard wear, emerged from the pile of newspapers scouring the stage for a supposed set list lost amidst the rubble. Within moments, said leader started a four person mosh pit offstage, while chanting some of the band’s mantras and/or song names including (in no particular order): “can you lick yer own boob,” “i’m so excited, i’m gonna die,” “boyfriend dumped you today because cuz yer gay,” and so on. At times, it all felt a bit subculturally insular, like imagining a Pop’s Bar v. Lexington Club battle of the bands, but the spectacle of it all was definitely hilarious, and it seemed most of the room couldn’t resist enjoying. Read on.

By: spicywing

spicywing — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:43:41 +0000

no one will care about these bands in a year. at least, i hope so.

By: tacotron

tacotron — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:01:54 +0000

Nathans did say he wanted “King of the Beach” to be his Nevermind I believe haha.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:28:03 +0000

20 years ago this was called Nirvana.

By: tacotron

tacotron — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:01:49 +0000

I was at this show! and I lovved it, follies and all. Isn’t the hit or miss unpredictability what people loved about seeing bands like Dinosaur Jr. and The Replacements live? They may have fucked up and fucked off but it rocked! And wasn’t such a disaster in my opinion.