Awesome. And awesome I got. After that, we headed over to Allentown, I was all uptight driving over, we can't miss Mountain High! Anyway, it was great to see Rodney Emo Motherfucker and Jesse, old roomates/crew members/crips from way back. Rodney looks exactly the same! Ask Eric! Beers and some whiskey, blabbing about the amazing Ralph Darden's views on Chicago and art; catching up on all the weirdos who hung around Cleveland St. Plus they filled in some details on a few Dan Gill stories as well. We all lived with a living legend. After babbling about that stuff, they drifted to their instruments and I found a corner and got awes. Mountain High played like half an hour or so, tightly wound psychy stuff actually. Fueled by two drummers and some extra drums from jogging-in-place Jesse, guitar and bass. Some songs were like psych surf, not quite as tribal crazy as I thought, what with all the drums. Cool swirling jams, but man I wish they woulda played like an hour and stretched out, seems like they can really improvise if they were set free. Eric and I split after snagging some CDs and t shirts from Rodney (thanks!) 'cause it was a Sunday night. Extremely mellow drive home. Here are some pics from the show.
rise above rodney!
ReplyDeletei'd say geza x doing a karp cover backed up by members of monorchid.
if i did say that rodney'd love the last 2 but perhaps be too young for the geza x name drop.
geza x! man, one of the mountain high songs definitely reminded me of that black flag jam "out of this world."
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