Blackjack Productions and Useless Eater and 89.1 WIDR fm present:
What? UFO Dictator Year 3: Whoopeee!
Where at? Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo MI
When? Saturday, June 23.
Time? Doors at 8pm, show starts promptly at 9pm. waaaaaah! und sob!
How much? XXXXXXX
Who’s playing?
The Spits (Seattle, WA) only Michigan appearance, welcome home tight bros
Violent Apathy (Kalamazoo, MI) first show since 1984. now featuring 75% original lineup!
The Chrome Spiders (Muskegon/GR/Kzoo, MI) Tom Potter (Bantam Rooster/Dirtbombs) with Bitters and Deconstruction dudes
The Oscars (Memphis, TN) their 3rd time here, good times Killed By Wipers punk rock
The Menthols (Kalamazoo, MI) super group featuring members of The Breaks, DHOMB, and The Clams
Whores Of Babylon (Coldwater/Kalamazoo, MI) featuring members of Boom & The Legion Of Doom, Burning Hatreds & Kona Buds
Who’s DJing? Bat Guano, Mickey Mac, The Doctor, DJ Chuck, B Mellow, Ms. Info, DJ Booth
Master Of Ceremonies? Dutch Hercules on strempth, promises to dress up goodly.
What’s going on before the show? art show/sale, movie shown, pork basted, press yer potluck, dish to paffs, good times.
What’s going on after the show? party! Hell yeah. Music will be played.
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46 comments
Bugaboo
It was like VA started as the "reunion" that was doing okay — gee, so many years, lookit the old guys — and then it just slid into that maniacal/angry/nutty punk rock that the kids find hard to reproduce naturally. And the crowd was getting into it, so much so that I felt guilty about having left my wife up by the stage. I hear Dusty protected her — my thanks.
Heard the bassist flipped off the audience — but you can’t smile at the same time and still be punk rock!!!
I’m dehydrated, feels like embalming fluid is in my veins.
thanks for the pic of
http://www.tomdeater.com/photos/violentapathy/_mg_6705.htm
Major good times
some photos
legs and feet hurt worse
You all should come to the
4-7 down at the Kraftbrau,
we got 200+ hotdogs in the fridge right now, all of them are real.
well..
For you to please refresh my think.
WHAT??
MIA
wig out!
Bat Guano we must meet. I
Bat Guano we must meet. I smell a photo op.
Everybody have your cameras ready.
Thats creepy, Napoleon Solo
Hey, Nice Pants
also needed: 2 pairs of
Did some flyering in GR (a tad) and Lansing (a bit) and KenEe was left with a pile to put up around the watering holes and listening posts.
here’s the Dorbz authored flyer:
crappor is kinda done with one, and our pal Oliveeyah drew up one that I think is silly good. Need a scanner to host that one though, real sad.
I'll check with Napoleon and
Don't forget your
You need a wig to borrow? I got an Andy Warhol I’m tired of.
This has just been confirmed
This has just been confirmed but I cant DJ the UFO show so I have asked Napoleon Solo to fill in for me. I can tell you this much, the UFO and whatever other DJ gigs Napoleon gets he will be in full character.
Supposedly, with only 74
Leaning heavily on having a preshow kinda BBQ, luncheon, church slacks, potluck, dish to pass kinda thing with art shown by a few interesting people, namely:
Baby Hooks (artist/film maker) of Paw Paw/Chicago. his site The Operated Eye
Art Fink (singer/shenanigans) of Coldwater
Mr. Hate (guitarist/hater) of Coldwater
Art Fink’s art can be seen more often if you stand up to go wee in our downstairs crappor. I think that Baby Hooks will be showing some films! Mr. Hate will bring the evil junk culture. Stuff will be for sale. All proceeds will go to the artists because 2/3 are unemployed and the other one is underemployed.
If I'd only known...
gasp!
That IS scandalous! But, still…maybe it’s eerily appropriate that I selected Mary Faull______’s doppelganger as my avatar, for I, too, was an honors student of dubious merit. Actually, i always did okay, grade-wise, but was never one of those GPA-humpers. Nevertheless, I wound up in the top 10 of my graduating class (to the horror and dismay of a few of those classic prissy grade-humper types), primarily due to the fact that I had something like 3 or 4 hours of choir during my senior year. One hour actually singing in the danged HS choir, plus a few hours being a T.A. at the Jr. High, accompanying (piano standing in as orchestra) Shellville-like abbreviations of classic musical theater such as "Pirates of Penzance" as performed by five 8th graders. AWESOME. Certain girls were very unhappy about my rise to the top, whereas I found it totally hilarious when THE TOP 10 LIST was posted in the trophy case. The greatest thing about it was that I found out I was on the list when little Billy G*ecker, a true and genuine freaky boy 3 years younger than me (and although we didn’t know it at the time…destined to become Vicksburg’s most "punk" kid who died at a truly tragic age in a car accident) ran up and pounded me on the back!: "Oh, my god! Dude! You’re like the queen of the freaks! YOU PUT US IN THE TOP TEN! You’re my hero today!"
baaa-ledictorian
Dingey Sue,
The more I look at your avatar of Lil Miss Taggert, I’ve decided that she is not, in fact, the doppleganger of FiFi Paraiso (my HS number one busy body), but rather the spiritual sister of Mary Faull–who was a frizzy-locked red-head prissy Christian type who, despite her 4.0 GPA (and believe me there was doo-doo loads of controversy there, too… she bailed and took the EASIER pre-calculus class, not the Analysis X class, thus making it easier to secure her perfect GPA. I don’t think FiFi OR John Scott Whalen EVER forgave her for her tainted perfection) went on to a screwy little cultish private bible college somewhere in Kentucky.
Go Vis, GO!!!!
About the mohawk
so sad
Don't forget Cookie as Face
I can see you as Hannibal,
Well after some discussions
Actually the issue is the
Actually the issue is the relative musical complexity of the bass parts compared to the rest of the music, especially in the original lineup. Our first bass player (Jim) is now a concert clarinetist and was an outstanding musician even then and he made the songs worthwhile in the first place. Both Eliot (the first drummer) and I were almost beginners on our instruments when the band started. If there is an exceptional bassist out there (Karl comes to mind) who could learn and play the bass parts I could be closer to being swayed. I think Eliot is supposed to be coming here around that time from California, I think KKK has more info on that. Jim is supposedly coming to Michigan too (he lives in CT) but it won’t be until like fall.
The sad thing is that we had a a verbal commitment from all 5 members of our final lineup (not Jim or Eliot who both left the band in ‘82) but that all fizzled out. All 5 live in Michigan. Adny Bennett, Thomm Fuller and Earache Lowry. Earache said no due to child, we can’t find Adny now (none of his phone or e-mails have been answered) and Thomm is lukewarm at best. That would have been awesome, slower and heavier, with more challenging songs that we wrote during the last year or so we were together. I am thinking we will not be able to play most of the songs that were written for 2 guitars.
I will not half-ass this thing. Seeing Big Black at T & G really pissed me off and I do not want to just throw something together.
now about XXXXXXX XXXXXX
If you need a ringer to play bass, hmmm, who around here could pull it off? Stop by Hot Topic and get him a dog collar to go with the sweater vest, holy hardcore! Flannel and doo-rags are what I’m thinking of.
I understand if you guys want to keep a sanctity of the line-ups in order, but the people in the audience probably won’t be scribbling down notes to quibble about how guitarist #2 actually never played through a Marshall cabinet, and drummer #1 only had 1 bass drum, and the sexy guitarist didn’t use to wear sweatpants on stage. And I thought that Pom Totter basically demanded that you guys do this. I think it will be fun.
Awesome Traceeee! Both of
Neighsayers, don’t doubt, don’t hate, celibrate! Don’t worry. If we run out of time, I don’t have to DJ, or if there’s only 5 bands, I don’t have to DJ during the show proper. The idea of having DJ’s at a show that bands be playing, is to keep the good times going all the way up to and after the fucking Spits play, the fucking Spits, man!
Hopefully the following chart will help the visual learners:
6 bands, 7 DJ’s
DJ #1: The Doctor
Band #1: Whores Of Babylon
DJ #2: DJ Chuck
Band #2: The Menthols
DJ #3: Mickey Mac
Band #3: XXX XXXXX XXXXXXX ?
DJ #4: B Mellow
Band #4: ?
DJ #5: MS Info
Band #5: XXXXXXX XXXXXX ?
DJ #6: Bat Guano
Band #6: The Spits
DJ #7: DJ Booth
Or if there are only 5 bands, I don’t have to DJ. And there is probably going to be festivities before, which would need a DJ or two.
Don’t fret, no hand wringing, don’t fritter away your DJ dreams because you don’t believe. Where there’s a will, there’s an A.
There wouldn't be any
Estrogenic
glad to know your wrong
glad to know your wrong about violent apathy….wichard…..those records are great!!!!….live….who cares how shitty you guys are…i’ll smile through the whole set…..fun fun fun….old ass fuckers rocking out…..clucking teenage lyrics….hahahahhahahah….fun fun fun…..garaunteed to be one of my all time favorite shows…..im listening to public enemy…..i love them…..
I was wondering how we were
I think the probability of
I think the probability of XXXXXXX XXXXXX playing is closer to zero. I really don’t see all members of any lineup being in the area around that time and one of my current condition is that any reunion have all original members (I am a little flexible about this but not much). It would have to be basic lineup #1 (primitive bashing hardcore) or basic lineup #2 (double guitar slower rock and roll) and as of now there is no plan for all the members of either lineup to be around the area. KKK has talked about a ‘Frankenband’ featuring members from each lineup who never played together in real life but I don’t support that. I know KKK is working on some plan to have 3 members of lineup #1 around but it would be missing the bass player who was the only real musician and who kind of carried the group. It would take a real ringer to replace him and that person has not emerged yet. I may support that if the right musician emerged who could make it sound authentic. Besides, the reality is that XXXXXXX XXXXXX was a mediocre band at best and any legend floating around that they were better than that would disappear once people heard the real thing. NA doing a reunion is cool because they had great songs and a great presence. Believe me, an XX reunion would only make people head for the Kraptbrown deck out of boredom.
Man, somebody asked me to
I saw that dude, he bought BG a drink, then they spooned behind the wheels of steel while he played "Summer Breeze" and ate some Bread records.
but I like
That dude was scary. Ask BG
And will there be a big
The solution to this problem is to play more typing tutor or morse code instructional records.
Easy! There's going to be
Depending on 5 bands or 6, the show will either start at 9pm flaccid, or 9pm firm. "Dude, we missed the first two bands that our friends play in because we were at the Teen Grop talking about shopvacs with all of our best buddies whose names we don’t even know!"
Got 101 days from now to get the plan hammered out. I love planning. The other dude putting on the show has similar OCD problems which works good in this situation.
PPSPSP: I’m thinking that the event will be vinyl only so that we may show solidarity with our petro-chemical overlords and their byproducts.
How are you going to fit all
And will there be a big intense dude demanding of the DJs Motley Crue, Megadeth, Misfits, Danzig, etc.?
Mickey, "dowatchalike", like
Sad but true story, at WHYDER dj event a female asked a DJ who was playing "Dowatchalike" if he could stop playing it, because it was offensive to her. That DJ was shocked that somebody would be upset by "just grab them in the bisquik" and regretted that he didn’t play 2 Live Crew "Hey, We Want Some Pussy" instead, as he was just about to put that record on, but thought it might be too risque.
Thanks DJ Booth, you’re a great american hero. Your taste in music and the courage to play some wack-assed shit is commendable and a breath of Fresh Aire IV.
Since DJing is typically an all boys club, are there any females around these parts that would like to spin some cold cuts sometime that day too? I like women and goils.
Aw, c'mon Mickey. Play what
Since I have been asked to
Hell yeah!!!! Dude, I'll be
Hell yeah!!!! Dude, I’ll be there in 2 minutes to DJ! I can already tell you "Boogie In Your Butt" and the WWF wrestlers "Land of 1000 Dances" will get spun! Thanks for the honor Ulyssess.