they're one of my top shows too. one show i went to had some active antagonism between the openers and OCs and the crowd and OCs and it made it even better, a little rock and roll danger going on. john dwyer also chugged an entire corona with just his face and mouth, pretty impressive
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 18 May 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
i lost track of keeping up with the albums around Memory of a Cut Off Head, but picked up a handful newish Dwyer-related stuff recently and my favorite surprise has been this Witch Egg LP - Dwyer and some others doing improvised(i assume?) kosmische-psych-jazz jams complete with upright bass and sax, excellent grooves, has really been hitting the spot this month.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've really enjoyed this turn Dwyer has taken over the pandemic into this whole jazz thing. I actually haven't heard the Witch Egg one yet, but I'm loving the hell out of the newest one, Gong Splat.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 January 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
Yeah I'm loving it too. Its so satisfying bc those influences have obv always been there with him, but as he's gotten better over the years he's just honed it so much that he can actually credibly pull of this sort of full-bore Can/electric Miles thing. What an arc this guy has had over the last 20 years.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
it's very good
― Bongo Jongus, Monday, 24 January 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
Gong Splat is his best in this vein yet, strong Lawrence Of newark vibes
― There's A Goots In My House (stevie), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 10:39 (two years ago) link
Saw Osees this weekend, it was a terrific show. Pretty killer setlist, mostly focused from Drop era stuff onwards to the latest albums.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 September 2023 13:54 (seven months ago) link
Apparently these guys are big among the King Gizz crowd... SO MANY younger kids in King Gizz shirts at the show, including a trio of people in matching King Gizz hockey jerseys.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 September 2023 13:55 (seven months ago) link
If you thought King Gizzard was big with OSees fans try going to a Ween show!
― zacata, Monday, 18 September 2023 13:56 (seven months ago) link
Have never seen these guys because as far as I can tell they haven't been to the DC/Baltimore area in well over a decade. They must really hate it.
― Chris L, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:07 (seven months ago) link
Castle Face put out an early Gizz record and I believe put on shows/played with them on their early trips to the US. And there's a lot of similarities between early Gizz and mid-period Osees - the double drums, the FX-laced high register guitars, even the echo-laden yelps that punctuate both bands' sets.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:08 (seven months ago) link
Oh yeah, I can see why they'd like both bands, just surprised by how much King Gizz swag was in the crowd.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:09 (seven months ago) link
Anyway, back to Osees, it was my first time seeing them and I don't know that I could have asked for a better setlist. The way they put Rincon and Quattrone right up front really helps emphasize the heft and drive they bring to the band.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:44 (seven months ago) link
I was at the same show, jon (assuming you're referring to the Saturday show, as I also saw the hockey jerseys)! It was great. My brother and a rotating group of companions have been coming to town to see them every September for a number of years but this was my first time back (and my first live show period) since before the pandemic. Fantastic way to break the seal.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:46 (seven months ago) link
Yep, I was indeed at the Saturday show.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:49 (seven months ago) link
I'm seeing them at Gonerfest in a couple weeks and really psyched about it, amazed to realize its been close to 10 years since the last time. From 2008-2014 I used to make a point to catch them whenever I could, but as they started graduating to fests and bigger venues they stopped coming through my neck of the woods. Happy that it sounds like the set will be mostly stuff I've never heard live.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:44 (seven months ago) link