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In the years that I've been exploring the experimental music scene I have never seen an act so anti-intellectual, so bangy-bangy, so utterly nihilistic as F-Space.
You know, not everyone has an adolescent fixation with large pieces of poorly-built machinery that break repeatedly during performance (in addition to constituting a "class 3 firehazard" - has the fire marshall approved your set?). Not everyone enjoys the sound of colossal towers of rhythm, the chromatic dirge of over-reverbed guitars, or the spectacle of billowing clouds of flame.
While there is a "drama" to your performance, it is a drama that stems from and is programmed by the conflict/resolution dichotomy which always already saturates the liminal spaces of media. When I watched you guys hammer and pound I kept asking myself "Where is the transcendence? Where is the love?"
Led Zeppelin of noise, indeed. I'm afraid that Robert Plant knew all-too-well the lesson you still need to learn as a band. I recommend that you closely listen to the lyrics of "All of My Love" to see what I mean.
I would also recommend that you all quit the "music" profession and either become roadies for a monster truck rally or high school shop teachers.
You know, not everyone has an adolescent fixation with large pieces of poorly-built machinery that break repeatedly during performance (in addition to constituting a "class 3 firehazard" - has the fire marshall approved your set?). Not everyone enjoys the sound of colossal towers of rhythm, the chromatic dirge of over-reverbed guitars, or the spectacle of billowing clouds of flame.
While there is a "drama" to your performance, it is a drama that stems from and is programmed by the conflict/resolution dichotomy which always already saturates the liminal spaces of media. When I watched you guys hammer and pound I kept asking myself "Where is the transcendence? Where is the love?"
Led Zeppelin of noise, indeed. I'm afraid that Robert Plant knew all-too-well the lesson you still need to learn as a band. I recommend that you closely listen to the lyrics of "All of My Love" to see what I mean.
I would also recommend that you all quit the "music" profession and either become roadies for a monster truck rally or high school shop teachers.
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 10:14 AMAnd what's with all the body hair??!!
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 10:35 AMWhen I saw how few drugs you were on last night, I became concerned. The BM Thunderdome show should be an excellent base line test for your preferred mental state during our exhibition of Nihilism. You really must ask yourself this question "am I capable of recording this set with a mini disk"? If you are at all capable of answering, or even posing the question, then you are obviously not ready for the "Tough Love" that F-Space has to offer.
BTW we'll start working on that cover of Immigrant song you wanted to hear. -
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 11:09 AMWait - you mean you *didn't* play Immigrant Song last night? Are you actually telling me that that strange noise I heard wasn't an attempted immitation of Plant's song opening whine, but instead the agonizing screams of metal that is wondering what it could have ever done so wrong to be treated in such a way?
Oh. That explains alot.
I got some decent shots of youse guys last night, and will post them to the tribe as soon as Aleph's Fucking Irish Whiskey (tm) finds its way out of what was once my gray matter, but is more of a strange polka-dotted anti-matter substance right now speaking with a Leprechaun's heavy brogue.
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 12:29 PMAgreed. From now on, it I feel that I'm not too inebriated to operate simple equipment, then I'll give your shows a wide berth. Let me know when Immigrant Song is ready I'll start talking to my network of dealers.
(PS - Z should do the vocals on the studio version) -
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 12:33 PMActually I was thinking of having Z play drums. -
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Re: your, ahem, music
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 12:35 PMOh.... um.... sorry Aleph.... no we're not trying to replace you with a 13 year old. You could play..... guitar or something. Yea that's it, dude it would be rad if you did guitar on that track. Oh.... um... Ethan.... Nevermind. -
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Re: your, ahem, music
Mon, March 8, 2004 - 8:31 PMOf course, I could always just do it as a "solo" track and play all the instruments AND do the vocals myself.
I'm multi-faceted like that! :P
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