This video combines two great things: Nardwuar and The Vivian Girls. Stay tuned until the end to hear them talk about a third great thing: The Bananas!
Also, an extensive article with a bunch of pictures on Matt K is in the Bee today!
Also also, Bruery tonight at Sac Brewing! This is major. Come out to support this so we can bring more stuff like this to our area. These brews are delicious. Here's the info from the website:
We will start pouring tasting flights and glasses at 4:00 and Patrick Rue will join us at 6:00 to meet and greet our local homebrewers and beer aficianados.
We will be pouring:
Orchard White
White Zin
Virgin Papier
Batch No. 1 - Levud's
Black Orchard
Hottenroth Berliner Weisse
Bottles of Saison Rue, Saison de Lente and White Orchard will be available for purchase as well.
The first 30 sample flights that are ordered will come with a beautiful Rastal crystal tulip glass with The Bruery logo etched on the front. You do not want to miss these!
We will be pouring:
Orchard White
White Zin
Virgin Papier
Batch No. 1 - Levud's
Black Orchard
Hottenroth Berliner Weisse
Bottles of Saison Rue, Saison de Lente and White Orchard will be available for purchase as well.
The first 30 sample flights that are ordered will come with a beautiful Rastal crystal tulip glass with The Bruery logo etched on the front. You do not want to miss these!
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ReplyDeleteIt sucks that they're doing this on a Monday, and with an early start. Whoever makes it to this has to report on it.
ReplyDeleteDani
Did anyone make it to the Germs show on Friday? Wondering how that all went down
ReplyDeleteThis is tangentially related to the Darger reference, but I finally got the American Museum of Folk Art last week. Just wondering out loud - but if the staff at the Crocker gets thanked in the exhibition catalog for Martin Ramierez (and it was a prof at Sac State who first brought him to attention), why hasn't that exhibition been shown yet in Sacramento? I'd love to see it, but it seems a little odd that it's yet to be shown here.
ReplyDeleteI went to the American Museum of Folk Art in NYC last summer and really liked the Darger-inspired stuff. Some of it reminded me of Troy Mighty.
ReplyDeleteJed
Jealous and at work. :-(
ReplyDeleteI went to the Germs with Ed Hunter and a couple of other friends. We showed up early thinking it would sell out. It didn't.
ReplyDeleteBased on my rough head count, I'd say there was 60 people there. We were on the back porch and they never collected any money from us. I'm sure they missed other people too. I spent it all on drinks and a Germs shirt anyway.
It reminded me of the natural progression of bars and live shows. At first, shows are free and they still pay bands -- it increases drink sales and the bar is happy. Then they start charging at the door, and bands are paid better. The bar is still happy. Later bands don't get paid much, if at all, and the door charge goes to security, the sound guy and the bar and the bar folks are getting burned out and the shows aren't as fun there as they used to be.
Anyway, they played with 2 bands I hadn't heard of (The Krum Bums and Machete) and the Germs didn't start until late, so they had to cut their set short. It would've pissed me off if I paid the $14 for that when it was obvious that was what was going to happen anyway. Why do places cut the headliner short?
Especially after the Sacramento to LA drive (say The Bananas last weekend) or LA to Sacramento (the Germs this weekend).
The Germs are all super nice people. I told Lorna Doom that I've had a crush on her for the last 30 years. Pat Smear and Don Bolles were also super nice and they were all excited that people would go see them play.
The fake Darby Crash was also a nice guy but it's just a bit weird to replace the front man with an actor.
They did a great job. I don't know why they started their tour in Sacramento on a Friday. I wonder if they waved at SF as they drove by in their tour bus. I got a couple set lists.
Oh yeah, Ed talked to Jim (the bartender who books shows) the next day, and Jim said that was the first time they lost money on a show. The Germs have a $1,700 guarantee. Maybe they'll figure out that publicity is the promoter's friend. I think most people didn't find out about that show until Friday.
Even Ground Chuck blew off going to the show and I'm sure they'd let him in for free. Half-assed job Distillery! And this is coming from a guy who lives his life half-assed. Maybe that makes the Distillery quarter-assed.
Holy crap only 60 people. That's pathetic. Somebody blew it. Probably if they charged ten bucks over twice as many people would have gone.
ReplyDeleteYou know, to grind a little ax, I don't know who is supposed to be in charge of collecting at West Cap, but that was pathetic how little the bands got paid. I know they were local and stuff, but bands need band funds for things like gas and recording and putting out records, and we all need to just chip in a little to add up to a lot for the bands. But I guess it's really just because no one was collecting.
I think at west capitol bowl, the bands are in charge of collection. It looked like David Paul was doing most of the collecting. He just drew a set of black flag bars on my hand.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to go to the Germs show, but I like Knock Knock better.
60 people does kind of suck, but they got there money.
The Vivian Girls are great! That interview started me down an hour of other Narduwar classics (Thanks Heckabecks!)
The One where he stalks Micheal Moore is pretty good. I watched both the Josh Homme ones. The first one you can tell he doesn't know who Narduwar is and he is being such a dick! it kind of bummed me out. Then I watched another one and you can tell he figured out who Nardurwar was and he is pretty stoked on him.
I also watched the Nardurwar vs. Nirvana. Kind of bummed me out. Dude, you named your band Nirvana. Your not that cool.
Charles
Allen Heckamax did a superb job of collecting my money at West Cap Bowl, and drew ?! on my hand to prove it. I don't think anyone was at the back door, so if people entered through the bowling alley & came around that way, there wouldn't have been any collecting. If the bands want the money, they need to have someone on the doors. It's better than having the "club" in charge & taking a cut, probably, but I know most bands don't want to hassle with it.
ReplyDeleteI think sometimes it works way better to just pass the hat, informal style, then at least everybody will pay a little bit.
ReplyDeleteYeah, if a band wants to play a show, they better bring the PA, do all the promotion & be in charge of collecting money at the door. The venue is far too busy raking it in hand over fist on $4.50 beers to do anything else.
ReplyDelete-miller