Transfigurations Fest

Sounds awesome but I think at this point my cash is going to Montreal.  Let’s talk about this one though…

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This is Dingey, apparently logged in as dusty.  HAve you ever been to a garage fest?  Uhhhhhhhh.  I’m just sayin.  Wasnt my favorite experience and I actually like the music.

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Could make a difference. Still - common denominator - Sky Saxon!

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I remember staying through a few songs by “the seeds”

Then we both decided we were both way more excited by the prospect of sleep than the prospect of another 10-15 songs by them. 

Sincerely,
Grumpy Grump Pants

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Good point Dingey.  Maybe the Montreal thingie is not really what I want to do.  The Asheville thing sounds interesting though…

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..I’m sure that my attitude was partially colored by still being freaked out by my first-ever air travel and the complete sensory overload of Las Vegas.  It was an awful lot of music, much of which was only kinda okay.  The 5,6,7,8’s were fabulous.  Muck and the Mires were really fun (and I see they’ll be in Montreal as well)—a great power pop act.  F & M kicked butt and freaked people out a bit by injecting some energy (and not just fashion) into the room, the Monks were great and I thought I was going to die from a floor collapse during their set.  Other than that, I remember having to leave the ballroom quite often due to boredom with the other seemingly bejillion bands that played. Basically, all the acts with any degree of energy and songwriting are what stick in my mind.  Some bands I didn’t get to see because they played too late and I was too full of cheap Las Vegas Newcastle. But yeah.  I don’t want to give the impression that it was a horrible time, but, musically?  Meh.  I had fun just because I got to meet and remeet some really great folks and I got to see a couple of bands that I really liked and it was really funny to watch people freak out while they watched Nate slide around the stage and leap off the drumset and stuff.  Also, we were leaving for Zion the minute it was done, so I knew a change of scenery was coming!

It may also be that I’m just not cut out for festivals, because I had a hard time bearing up with Pitchfork as well.  I think that Pitchfork would be WAY better if they’d let people come in and out the site.  That’s too long to be cooped on 1.5 acres with no way to change your scenery or environment or go sit in some air conditioning for a few minutes. I think I get overloaded if I try to hear too much music in that short of a span. 

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CG and I agree about the Rockaround having been too much for the senses. There were an awful lot more acts playing per night there than most other garage fests F&M have played - the number of acts per night in Montreal seems much more reasonable.

Also - since Vegas is its own weird, artificial, and isolated entity, leaving the casino where the Rockaround was happening didn’t really feel like getting away. Being at the Rockaround was like being in a bubble inside a bubble. The show in Montreal should be a totally different experience.
Dingey, are you not heading to the Wooly Weekend?

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..they’re not paying the way for band members AND their associates, are they? That’s issue number one.  That, and a lack of remaining vacation time.

Are YOU going, Karl?  I still haven’t heard what the lineup is! ;)

I haven’t heard much about the travel arrangements, but I thought the plan was to rent a van and drive.  Might be tight quarters for me to try to squeeze in, even if I could get time off.  Or if I quit my job by then.  Ha.

I also must be honest and state that I am kind of a shitty, whiney traveller if I don’t get a bunch of down time (like, at least a week) between the long drives.  

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So is the thing in Montreal a GARAGE FESTIVAL?  Ummm….I just wanted to see my friends’ band play, not spend days or even hours having to endure a bunch of old poseurs.  Ugh, Magic Bag flashbacks!!    Is this thing gonna be outdoors?  

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http://www.chartattack.com/news/70933/wooly-weekend-bringing-sixties-back-in-montreal

http://www.theatreplaza.org/galerie.html



Here’s the skinny….Doesn’t appear to be outdoors (boo)

Here’s the lineup so far:

Aug. 6:
The Gruesomes
The Hypstrz
The Morlocks
Much & The Mires

Aug. 7
Question Mark & The Mysterians
The Flakes
The Alarm Clocks
The A-Bones
Nagg

Aug. 8
The Higher State
The Electric Prunes
Love
Sky Saxon
Fortune & Maltese & The Phabulous Pallbearers
The Sunday Sinners
The Saffron Sect

The Saffron Sect appear to have a huge subsidy from the Canadian government. 

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This festival in Montreal looks cool.  It would be way awesome to see Fortune & Maltese once again.  I so wish I could go.  Damn this recession. 

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“Whats left of Love”

I find that funny for some odd reason even though Johnny Echols and Snoopy whats his last name are the only two surviving members.  Michael Stuart Ware joined after 1966.

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…that’s how the Fabulous Nardwuar is able to do his thing and wasn’t terribly sad when four people showed up to watch he and the Evaporators play at the 666 building with F & M back in the day.  Viva Socialized cultchah!

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How on earth did this thread get turned into yet another discussion about garage rock and stuff from the 1960s that is way overcooked? Please no more!!!

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Welcome back QN!!!   On a more positive note of retread reunions, Wizzy and I saw X last Friday night in Chicago.  All four original members with all their hearts in it.  Beautiful. 

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Also, for me at least the point of this thread is whether or not the missus and I are going to vacation in Quebec in early August and take in the last night of the ‘Wooly Weekend’ in Montreal where F & M are playing.  Lord knows I’m not the biggest F & M fan in the world but like Dingey says at least they bring some energy into the mix.   These ’60s ‘reunions’ (or re-creations, or whatever they are) don’t really mean that much to me.   

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I will see anything once. I also have a passport.

As to the topic of the thread, I thought it was the Transfigurations Fest in North Carolina, to which I say I would rather not see the Books ever again. I didn’t want to see them in the first place, but it seems like there was a nice dinner involved, so I got sucked into it. Everybody else I already saw at Pitchfork. There, who’s jaded now?

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Sorry honey but although you did see the Books you did not see Will Oldham, Akron/Family or Dungen at Pitchfork (unless you went sometime without me). 

Ahh, Dungen. They would blast ‘The Seeds’ or ‘What’s Left of Love’ right off the stage.  Why don’t they play any of these ’60s festivals?    I told Jon Howard up at FBC that I heard Dungen for the first time on our local world music show (J Hall is a big fan) and he shook his head in disbelief.  What ‘genre’ are they, besides ‘Swedish’? 

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See, it’s pointless to take me to these things entirely. The point is that I’m jaded. Oh yeah. Like a cool, green stone. Oblivious to names.

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I needed to take out the needles for old time sake!

This festival looks great. Goona be fun. Ding and Dusty — coming down, right?

Really, really excited for the War on Drugs and Kurt Vile. Both pretty damn cool.

War on Drugs:
http://www.myspace.com/thewarondrugs

Kurt Vile:
http://www.myspace.com/kurtvileofphilly

Oldham will, of course, be good. He just played here with full band. Espers will be a guilty, retro-Brit folk pleasure.

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I suspect Dusty will be down for it, since his Denso time is done and he may need to be down there for some job interviews by then or somethin’.  I’m kind of playing it by ear for right now because I’m fast running out of vacation time and I don’t know where all of our house rehab/moving status will be by that point.  Aye yi yi!

We picked up that Will Oldam or Bonnie Prince Billy album that’s blue with the crayon drawing on the cover recently.  That’s amazing! I’m a little worried about what Akron/Family might be like without the fourth guy, but I’m curious.  Quantum, have you seen them since they became a trio? And you KNOW Dungen’s gonna kick it!  They were amazing when we saw them at the Grey EAgel.  I love that the guitarist looks like Jame JY Young.

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http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2009/081209happy_anniversary_harvest

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Great article, Quantum!! I really dig those Harvest lads. Wish I could be there for the shows!

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