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All Tomorrow’s Parties 2003
The Queen Mary Long Beach, California November 8-9, 2003 The Black Heart Procession. As I write this in October 2008, half a decade after the fact, my memories of this event are not…
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Lightning Bolt at the Echo
Los Angeles, California October 13, 2003 Brendan, Dude, I fully watched you walk by when I was in line for Lightning Bolt last night. (I was around the corner, about 20 feet away…
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Stereolab at The Belly Up
Solana Beach, California November 19, 1999 Laetitia Sadier handles the vocals. Stereolab: They came, they saw, they played, and everything was just fine and dandy…until the end of their set, that is. As…
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Jim O’Rourke + Oval + The Electric Company + Creedle at The Casbah
San Diego, California Friday, May 29, 1998 Markus Popp of Oval and Jim O’Rourke at Spaceland, Los Angeles, California, 1998. Photos by Rich Jacobs. It was odd enough that a rock band, Creedle,…
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Tony Conrad at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California March 11, 1998 Tony Conrad at Spaceland, 1998. Photo by Rich Jacobs. In between a week’s worth of matinee performances at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Temporary Contemporary,…
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Ghost at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California Saturday, August 23, 1997 Louder and friendlier than Casper, Tokyo’s Ghost delivered over an hour of awesome psychedelic folk rock on this night. Opening with a long, ambient, atmospheric piece,…
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Nels Cline at The Alligator Lounge
Nels Cline at the Smell, circa early 2000s. Los Angeles, California Monday, July 28, 1997 Nels Cline is a very tall, strangely talented man that hosts New Music Monday every week at The…
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Thai Kevin at Palms Thai
Hollywood, California Circa 1996 Thai Kevin, a Thai Elvis impersonator, circa 1996. Photo by Rich Jacobs. Thai Kevin was a very suave man. He wore the color purple better than most. The restaurant…
- Bernhard Gunter, Gastr del Sol, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Table of the Elements, Tony Conrad
Table of the Elements Festival No. 2: Yttrium
The Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois November 7, 8, 9, 1996 Tony Conrad et all, 1996. Photo by Rich Jacobs. Since the early 1990s, the Atlanta independent label Table of the Elements has been…
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Bardo Pond at The Casbah
San Diego, California Thursday, September 19, 1996 Bardo Pond, All Tomorrow’s Parties, 2003. The effects pedal industry won’t slump as long as Bardo Pond is around. Each member laid out at least eight…
