* PLUG* My Fellow ILM'ers - Get Thy Kid Congo On!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/08/the-hypnagogic-states-of-kid-congo-powers/

Holy crap! Kid Congo Powers was a poster here?!!#

Oh wait nm sorry

yes, it appears. No need to be sorry

Ha, to clarify -- Captain Jay Vee is his own good soul but yes, he was playing with Kid Congo at the time.

Yeah search engine tells me that I am not the first poster to do this.

Anyways, great line in that article (from Ian Svenonius) : He loves garage rock because it is the ancient language that's pure and beautiful. But, not like, 'everything should be the way it was in 1963.'"

Thanks. Kid was spinning a bunch of great obscure songs that night referenced in the article. This was interesting too: Kid plays guitar in the same bluesy, open-tuning style Jeffrey Lee Pierce taught him when they formed The Gun Club;

Ten years later I just saw Kid Congo do a book talk in DC interviewed by Joe Lally from Fugazi. He talked about how he got into music when he was young, sewing and making own clothes to go to Rodney Bingenheimer’s glam dance club thing, starting a Ramones zine, meeting Jeffrey Lee Pierce in line to see Pere Ubu, working at record stores, how he joined the Cramps and how charismatic and wonderful Lux was onstage and more .