Acid Mothers Temple on Tour

it's terrible, ddb. you have no idea.

L.A. IAN and L.A. JON.

SPENCER?!?!

NED!!!!

GOD CAN WE MAKE THIS THE ILX MAIN INDEX IMAGE PLEASE?!?!?!?!

He looks like the first man to successful replicate the Brian Connolly hair quaff since 1974.

< /ROFL COPTER!!!! >

my day has been made!

the show is $10-, $14- if you buy will call tickets at ticketmaster. you may want to do that ... there's a pretty big stoner rock contingent in san diego, and the hometown heroes (earthless, not subarachnoid space) are opening, so a lot of people will show up at the door early.

i got my tickets will call.

It was a joke, mostly about how long there set was. We showed up at 10 and they were already playing and went steadily until exactly 12. Then, the few people there started to leave and a guy got on the PA and said that since the A/C was broken, the bar was serving $1 Rolling Rocks and that everyone should stay and see AMT play some more. But, I couldn't hack it, so I left. AMT was at the merch booth and there was a surprisingly huge crowd trying to buy CDRs so I knew it would be awhile. The thought that such a long show was good is definitely evidence of how well they played and how nicely paced everything was. But this is also the opinion of someone seeing AMT live for the first time, so ...

Ha, that's right! If I get a chance to talk to one of them, I'll mention it!

http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72265

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK

Highlight for me -- the Neu!/motorik tribute break in that one monster song they always do. It lasted for 10 minutes and reduced any other band's attempt to do same in recent years, from Stereolab to Sonic Youth to whoever, to rubble.

Subarachnoid weren't bad (seen them better, though), Earthless were a revelation and definitely deserve to be seen live.

Marco, I did indeed pass on your best, they were happily appreciative, and Hiroshi thought very highly of grappa.

Subarachnoid Space were boring as fuck. Must have been great for bar sales. It didn't help that the bass player wore a Grateful Dead T - unironically!

AMT were great of course, but by the end I couldn't take any more. Did they do an encore?

Probably -- I have that around somewhere, must dig it out again.

I was there too.

It was a night for ILX! Not only myself and Elvis T. and Matt Maxwell and you, but Vahid and then famous athlete, who came up to me and asked "Are you Ned Raggett from I Love Music?" I was completely flustered! And I was talking to Mario from Earthless at the time and he probably wondered what the fuck was going on!

Favorite band were Earthless, actually. Why haven't I heard of them before?

Hell, I've been on the Rocket list forever (in that Mario from Earthless is the same Mario in Rocket and formerly with Clikitat Ikatowi) and I only just heard of them the other day -- now I have a fave new band! Emusic.com has the show from last night available -- they have some sorta Clear Channel deal with the Casbah -- while the CDR the band were selling is from a show there earlier in the year, I'm listening to it now. Three tracks, the first is a touch slower than what they played yesterday but still great -- however, they are DEFINITELY a live band, they've got that sheer room-filling explosive feeling down.

Subarachnoid miss Mason Jones a bit, I think. No encore as such from AMT -- just two goddamn hours of noise and wackiness.

http://www.emusiclive.com/casbah/

hi cheshy! <3

Dude, he's BEEN in Rocket for three years now!

I've been up since 6:00am and was planning on doing laundry and going to bed early tonight but SURPRISE! Acid Mothers are tonight. And friends from out of town, too. *coffee*

I been a hair's width from seeing them like 7 times, pretty excited for this.

plz to report back. I am v curious.

considering how little i listen to AMT, it's funny to me that they're the band i've seen play the most in the last decade. but their live shows are so great, i'll never pass them up. definitely going to the knoxville show in a few weeks.

Lineup appeared to be as listed above, though replace "acoustic guitar" with "bitchin' clarinet". I kinda expected them to play one 1-hr song but they played a set of songs kinda! With verses sometimes! Mokoto rubbing his guitar on his ass, holding his guitar over his head by the trem arm, swinging it wildly by the neck. Guitar hanging from the ceiling. Bass dude sings a lot. He makes chromatic shredding groove somehow!? Really liked him. Great, great show.

sadly (FOR ME) my report from the high on fire show says that you won MPLS/STPL shows this evening ;_;

Bummer, what were they like?

My full report is on the rolling metal thread but the general vibe is noodly yet boring

They fucking destroyed Chicago's Empty Bottle, last night. Brilliant from start to finish. Frenzied. Brain-flaying. Superconductive. Etc.

this bodes well for my plans tonight! are they freakishly loud or anything? I don't like to wear earplugs, tho I will if I have to.

Very freakishly loud, though it's a loud venue to begin with. Just white noise, at a few points. You could see them playing, but it was just a wall of static.

fuck that was loud

haha yah

these dudes + titus andronicus in the same week = rawken out

i've been waiting for a band to end their set like that for my entire life. like not specifically two guitars hanging from the ceiling and feedbacking while the rest of the band go nuts rawkin out, but at least that sort of totally unhinged wave of noise that just grows and grows uncontrollably. these dudes understand sweet motherfucking release more than any band i've ever seen.

Been a while since we updated! Even though they pretty much still do annual tours here, so:

http://acidmothers.com/wp-content/uploads/AcidMothersTour-731x1024.jpg

Even better are the California Flashback shows:

https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/03/11/21/50-og.jpg?w=960&h=1200

I'm only going to be able to attend the first night in SF but Christ, that's a lineup.

They're playing a matinee show at Cafe Oto in London at the end of June: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/acid-mothers-temple/

I'm uh hoping to be able to go to the Windsor show