Easter with +DOG+! Live at Godwafflenoisepancakes in SF, 3-31-13

photo by MichaelZ1 - art by Bonny Banks

I went to San Francisco yesterday for Easter Sunday (whatever that is) and spent a wonderful few hours making noise with friends..  it was another of Grux's wacky GODWAFFLENOISEPANCAKE happenings.  I don't know if he realized it was gonna be Easter Sunday when the show was booked..but it did not really effect things very much anyways.. all of the artists scheduled to play showed up and a decent crowd also were in attendance.. so all was good and things were swell.  First up was a band whose name started with the letter "S".. and they do not seem to be listed on any of the event pages that I can find for this show, so I have not been able to find out just what they were called..  I arrived about halfway through their set...and so i missed most of it.. I heard some beats and occasional grooves..but nothing that made me too excited.   Next up was Amphibious Gestures..who are part of Skosey Fetish's crew, or so I am told.. they did some great drones and added textures by using vocal effects and chaos pad electronics.. they also were in very colorful costumes complete with mask's that had lights in them for that added bonus effect. 
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO AMPHIBIOUS GESTURES - live 3-31-13

3rd on the bill was Endometrium Cuntplow an awesome sound art project from Los Angeles.. ..He played on the floor, as he regularly does.. and began with some scraping of something on the ground.. and then layering of scraping noises with vocal sounds that he looped and let continue on while he got up and went around the room blowing soap bubbles in everyone's faces...after making the rounds he went back to his spot on the floor and built the sound into a grumbling roar that intensified and then faded into him screaming a cappella about how everything will rot in the end .. it was very eastery!    
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO ENTROMETRIUM CUNTPLOW live 3-31-13

Rule 19 is a project done by Daniel Van Beers, someone that I have known for many years but have not seen in over a decade.  He makes train noises.. with actual train parts.. bells, whistles, horns.. its pretty cool ...but it takes a lot of preparation..and so he does not do it very often....this was the first time he had brought it out for public in over 5 years ..it was short..but it was loud and very cool.. it sounded like a train was IN the building..   Daniel's sounds were also the intro and added to the conceptual mad epic last performance of the day by +DOG+..  

photo by MichaelZ1

This time around +DOG+ was its master.. Steve Davis .. also Geordan White of Liver Cancer.. and myself..Lob.     We started as the bells of the train faded into the walls of the building and then Steve began with a tone of static electricity .. Geordan and I gradually entered into the audio mix. .and by the time the crux was reach we were all 3 laying down some pretty loud and chunky things.. I kept trying to pierce thru with metal like bass riffs that were embedded into very crunchy loops of distortion ..Geordan closed out the set with a sampled piece that he brought with him just to end the set with.. I am not sure where it came from but it was pretty damn creepy..    you can listen for your self..
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO RULE 19 and +DOG+ live 3-31-13

+DOG+  - 3-31-13, photo by MichaelZ1