kc Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 (edited) Damo Suzuki Network Aug 25th @ PJCFeaturing:Dave Lauzon - formerly of Nero (guitar and microKorg, possibly vocoding Damo,various delays)Carl Didur - the Battleship Ethel, No Dynamics (organ and synth,FX)Justin Small - Do Make Say Think, the Lullabye Arkestra (bass)Mike Ford (drums [real and V's!], Yamaha CS-60, theremin, FX)more tba?and of course Damo,....he's gonna mix it up.Guests for the Damo Suzuki show so far aare as follows:Shui Yeung Hui from japanese group called Maher Shalal Hash Baz playing er-hu guitar and saw. http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s051197/musicJon Dalton from the Good Ideas playing wooden flute and various organic objects through effects.Jeremy Strachan playing alto,tenor sax, Bass Clarinet. www.myspace.com/jeremystrachanAaron Goldstein on my favorite, the pedal Steel guitar.There will be a set featuring the core members of the band mentioned at top of thread.a short break to get a few lines up for the guests gear, quick joints, chug an energy drink and the second set will feature appearances by the musicians mentiond above alongside core band.Ryan Fergueson's fucking amazing Electroluminescent opens with more tba.$10 Friday. Aug. 25th www.pepperjackcafe.com Edited August 25, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 That sounds so fugging tight. I take it you had something to do with pulling together the lineup KC- love that Dave is getting an entree to that world. He would really be well suited to working with Damo. I've hung out with him and he's a weird but magical dude. Saw him with the Excalceolators and the BSS/Do Make/Sadies band too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 What's this project all about? What is "that world" zero speaks of? Any info would be appreciated. Inquiring minds want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Wow, that will be a nice show. Good score, Mr. Lauzon!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 amazing work Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodRev Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 I've been invited to jam at this show on pedal steel. Don't ask me how it happened, but it looks like I'm in if I want to be. Thought that might be added incentive . I'll confirm as soon as I know what's what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveThe Owl Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Am I being entirely too selfish to ask if you guys can do that in Ottawa too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 make the trip down here! don't worry, life goes on when you leave ottawa city limits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevO Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) This show sounds NIFTY!Who's the BSS/Do Make/Sadies band? Edited July 14, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 jeezuz. that will be an amazing night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteymuseum Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Good idea getting star players to back up Damo. Hamilton has had Damo three times before, and each show was pretty much the same as the one before it. The key to the better Damo shows comes down to the backing bands, cuz Damo's thing is basically the same each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Damo's an interesting phenomena. Basically he's been on this Never Ending Tour (his words) for several years, you know a series of tours but whatever. He used to be in this seminal krautrock band Can that most people who say they've heard have never actually heard (this posturing is common in 'that world'). I mean it's an important group and influential, you can be that Do Make and BSS and Godspeed and all them know them well. Now anyways he performs as Damo Suzuki Network and always plays with a one-off group of local usually high end improvising musucians and never rehearses. I mean I wondered about this but this group the Excalceolators told me themselves they hardly even spoke to him before they played together. He does this strange sort of talk singing in sort of Germanglish, not unlike Sigur Ros who I say sing in Icelanguish. The last time he came through the group was members of BSS/Do Make/Sadies and Snakes I think. This lineup suggests kc had a hand in it which is cool don't get me wrong.Basically the thing is and someone like Lauzon knows it- is that if you're an improvising musician yoú're either tainted with the jamband/groove label or your some 'out' sophisticated cat (I call it the playing guitar with your butter knife crowd) who everybody's supposed to know but doesn't. The Emperor's New Clothes thing of the whole scenario drives me nuts. In a way Lauzon's experience with Nero works against him considerably in terms of the music press so making an entree to that world is a positive if perversely necessitated development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodRev Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 WickedI'm confirmed on this show. I can assure you that I've never played in a real jamband, nor am I some out-there cat. I'll be guesting during the second set.I totally hear what you're saying, though, zero, about being a jammer or an out-there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 I totally hear what you're saying, though, zero, about being a jammer or an out-there.You're not even a hasbeen or a neverwas and you never will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten Gruvsten Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Damo's unfortunate role in Can was that of flailing about and channeling yoko ono and flopping his hair about. I mean really, I'd rather see Holger Czukay play the friggin' shortwave radio than sit through 2 hours of Damo. The real reason to go is the magic assembly of musicians that always seem to be part of it.I mean really, a Japanese guy, singing in Broken English, fronting a krautrock band. Sheesh.And if no one has heard Can send me blanks and I will mail a 2 disc best of I compiled. Seriously, the shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Sanchez Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Steve - Damo is doing a show in Ottawa on that tour but I have no idea who is in the band for that one.I am really looking forward to this one. I have never played with any of the musicians in the band and we are not rehearsing at all. So the first time I meet these people we'll be going up on stage and purely improvising. I love the concept. It could totally blow but its totally pure.Low Roller gave me a CAN cd a couple of years ago. I could not believe that band was from the 60s. The music is so advanced for that time. way way ahead. Its no wonder they were not a mainstream success.Zero- I hear what you're saying for sure but I don't think musicians or music fans care about that shit they just care about what they are hearing in the moment. Of course the music press is a different story. I'll bring my butter knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveThe Owl Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Pablo -- I'll keep my ear to the ground about that one. life goes on when you leave ottawa city limits ...but not when you enter Hamilton city limits. See ya there soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Battleship Ethel Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 CArl Didur will be at the Ottawa show. this is one night only! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Battleship Ethel Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 I put the band together with Kenny suggesting Lauzon, (merci)...uh, i was a member of a band that played with Damo a few years back called the Battleship Ethel. i totally agree with everyones comments thus far, and i want to say that i totally kept in mind the neccesity of having a really random, powerful band to back up what Damo does.Myself and Carl have been playing this weird type of music together for years now and he had well has performed a legendary improv show with Justin Small last year as LAND (Lullabye Arkestra/No Dynamics).So really the totally fresh guy here is Dave Lauzon, and i am really fucking excited about this.As a drummer of what....23 years, it is a real treat to play with world class musicians and i am really going to pay alot of attention and vibe off of Dave,McPhail gave me some great Nero stuff,(yeah, i've NEVER seen them..sorry) and i really dig it. So honestly folks, come down and check this out,both the openers alone will tear the roof and the shitty offices above the Pepper Jack clear off.Look for people with the crazy eyes, and join them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Battleship Ethel Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 P.S. Kenny i ain't cooking that day either.i got 1000 lbs of vintage keyboards to bring down 4 flights of stairs and into the club. probably alone or with someone skinnier than i am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Battleship Ethel Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Get yourself either of the Japan LTD Damo Suzuki Network Cd's they are pink and green. they are what it is all aboutdude iam gonna bust out V-tablas, i am gonna go Ginger Baker batshit,5/8,6/8,i am going to lay some classic krautrock down.Carl is totally Mike Rattilidge of the Soft Machine meets long lost member of Magma,You are gonna freak out man.I can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Battleship Ethel Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Damo Suzuki Network Aug 25th @ PJCDave Lauzon - formerly of Nero (guitar and microKorg, possibly vocoding Damo,various delays)Carl Didur - the Battleship Ethel, No Dynamics (organ and synth,FX)myspace.com/drmodulousJustin Small - Do Make Say Think, the Lullabye Arkestra (bass)and me - your momma (drums [real and V's!], Yamaha CS-60, theremin, FX)myspace.com/thebattleshipethelmore tba?and of course Damo,....he's gonna mix it up.Ryan Fergueson's fucking amazing Electroluminescent opens with more tba.Guests for the Damo Suzuki show so far aare as follows:Shui Yeung Hui from japanese group called maher shalal hash baz playing er-hu guitar and saw. http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s051197/musicJon Dalton from the Good Ideas playing wooden flute and various organic objects through effects.Pete from a Northern Chorus playing lap steel,guitar.Jeremy Strachan playing alto,tenor sax, Bass Clarinet. www.myspace.com/jeremystrachanAaron Goldstein on my favorite, the pedal Steel guitar.There will be a set featuring the core members of the band mentioned at top of thread.a short break to get a few lines up for the guests gear, quick joints, chug an energy drink and the second set will feature appearances by the musicians mentiond above alongside core band.more tba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 P.S. Kenny i ain't cooking that day either.What's wrong Mike? Can't you cook and play at the same time? Not that anything you do in that kitchen could be considered cooking anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 This sounds better and better and better. I definitely agree that musicians don't think that way but musicians aren't always who make and break careers. I mean to say that in any artform but particularly abstract art, take painting as compared to avant garde improvisation, you're going to have a gulf between the production or execution of the work and the critical vocabulary used to justify, explain or criticise it. You often have artists who are strong producers but fail to market their work well. Unfortunately you also get artists who know how to market their work but aren't necessarily the best producers. This theory if you like doesn't give a lot of merit to the fact that the individual can make up their own mind about what makes a good abstract painting or avant garde music composition. I'd say that part of the problem, and Dave Eggers the novelist actually made this point really well in a commencement speech he once gave at an American university and I can never find it online, is that in our current information economy there is just literally too much of a deluge of information, music, news, art, culture, politics, pornography, etc. that one has to make summary judgments about things they haven't experienced first hand and often critics help us make these judgments. You're not even a hasbeen or a neverwas and you never will be. Please tell me this wasn't directed at me. Don't you know better than to raise the ire? I'm fucking notorious bitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted July 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 I think he was refering to the Good Rev.You should tear a strip off Lazlo anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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