[bomp] Re: Crimes of the Dead

[Rob Branigin <euphorik6@xxxxxxxxx>]

paul wrote:

<<I remember waking up bleary-eyed on day 3 of the first Us Festival (who 
remembers THAT?), with a bloody nose from all the fucking dust and 
from...well, it was the 80s, after all...anyway, waking up to the sound of 
the most godawaful version of Johnny B. Goode I'd ever heard in my 
LIFE...and I've heard some bad ones.  Knew right then it was time to go.>>

holy shit - i had almost the exact same experience. years ago, a deadhead
friend of mine basically told me to put up or shut up on my anti-dead stance
and gave me a ticket to go with him & see them at deer creek up in indy. so i
figgered what the hell, maybe i'd be pleasantly surprised - so i went with him,
and sat through about 45 minutes of funky grilled-cheese-stink, ugly chicks
with BO and hairy armpits, noodle-dancing douchebags and shitty
doodly-doo-doo-doo guitar playing, and THEN they bust out w/ the dale
hawkins...the most horrific, alimentary-canal rending, nightmarish version of
"susie q" ever conceived in the mortal realm. i stood up right after about 3 or
4 (or 23 or 24, who knows) minutes of this crap and was like "i'm going home."
and i drove home FAST. talk about hellhounds on your trail...jesus christ. if
they played that shit in bosnia, they'd have jerry garcia's fat dead ass in
front of the fucking WORLD COURT. 

<<Best, pithiest description of their sound I've ever heard...

Q: What did the Deadhead say when he woke up from his acid trip?
A: This band SUCKS!!>>

fuckin A!!!

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rob

"...it is often a mark of talent to be useless."
- allan pinkerton, 1878.

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