From Jeff Waye Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 00:25
From Jeff Waye Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 00:25
>First, Oval wasn't there, maybe Mr. Popp was caught in the craziness of >the St-Laurent street's annual sidewalk sale. The Eternals made the >first part instead. They were entertaining, but no revelation. The >singer looked like Ben Harper with more hair(?!) and the sound reminded >me of the softer side of Swervedriver. A fair show The Eternals is 2 guys from emo band Trenchmouth. I thought they were quite good. The singing was a bit hit or miss, but whatever. Drag that Oval wasn't there. > >Then it was time for Tortoise. > >Well maybe it was just me but I must say the show was extremely >professional. The band couldn't be more concentrated on the scene and I >can't think of any other word to describe the work of the sound engineer >than brilliant. He was all over the place and played a big part in the >show (making weird sounds with a tube and working those little knobs). >I think Ninja's Jeff can say the same thing (saw you just in front of >the console)... Fuck ya! Casey was working the board hard. Good to see someone bringing the sound guy back in as an intregal part of the show (plus it gave me a good excuse to watch something aside from the back of the people in fromt of me...fucking tall people suck!) >Basically, they covered pretty much all the songs on their last 2 albums >(Millions now... and TNT). There was little place for >improvisation/different versions, as every song was an exact replica of >the original version. But that was no disappointment, as the technique >was so precise and the sounds were so perfect that you don't want it to >be different. > I don't know about the exact replica bit. All the tunes were pretty true to form, but they went off on some parts. The sorta electro version of 'The Equator' was particularly dope. All the new 'TNT' shit was sounding wicked. Anyway, Tortoise are always awesome live. I get the feeling that there the kinda group that in 15 years there will be 20 something year old people getting all jealous and shit that you saw them 'back in the day'. Take Care Ninja Jeff