― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― octave kitten, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― al, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
i think i thought that it would be more noisy, like i was told about the nirvana shows
it was total psych...
easily one of the best shows i've ever seen, music to put you into the best possible coma
the musical equivalent to the conclusion of Ballard's 'Drowned World'
― geeg, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bob Zemko, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's like comparing... ah fuck it. Think up yr own.
― Jerry, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
worst time: Lollapalooza. fuck that shit.
― http://gygax.pitas.com, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― funny farm, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
michael gira just announced as the support for boredoms on their upcoming uk tour - so glad i got ticks for the glasgow gig
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 19 August 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
wowee
― s1ocki, Sunday, 19 August 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
So is anybody going to the Manchester gig? I seriously wanna go but it's gonna be a pain to get there/get back on my own.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 21 September 2007 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I wasn't at this particular show, but I think a whole bunch of ILX0rs were at the one the next night (or maybe it was the night after that--it's hard to keep track?) Can STEVE SHASTA confirm?
http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl?search_string=RZCM+45758CD&searchfield=exkeyword
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 30 December 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought about reviving a thread due to that fine and amazing product linked above. Good work!
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 December 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw them three times. All good, all different.
First time was at Spanky's in Riverside CA in 1992.. this was the Brutal Truth, Boredoms, Pain Teens tour. Pain Teens cancelled due to Bliss Blood being sick, Brutal Truth headlined, so we got to see Boredoms but only after two perpetual bad metal bands opened... it was worth the wait.
Second was a the Whisky A Go Go in 1994 for the U.S. Pop Tatari tour. Trumans Water opened.
Third was at the first This Ain't No Picnic fest in 1999, which was the one where Sonic Youth got all their gear stolen.
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 30 December 2007 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw them on their 99 US tour (at the 9:30 Club in D.C., which still makes no sense to me...the place wasn't half full, could've easily fit in the Black Cat, but i digress). don't know what i was thinking, but i actually brought my fairly conservative (taste wise) Dad to it, and he loved them. i don't blame him, though - sometimes capital-a Amazing is just Amazing regardless of who you are. pretty much hands down the greatest live performance i've ever witnessed; think Super Ae x10, with 3 drummers going full tilt all the way through, total tribal groove. my favorite part of the night, toward the end, when eYe decided to share the mic with a kid up front, and they just took turns screaming back and forth, until it was clear that noone can compete with eYe in that category. -- al, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Link
this is still probably my single favorite concert memory ever.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 30 December 2007 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I drove five hours to see them live on their last tour. It was totally worth it.
― filthy dylan, Sunday, 30 December 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw them on that 99 tour at the Crocodile... went at the behest of a friend, knowing almost nothing about them. To this day it remains the loudest, possibly most exciting show I've ever seen. I'm sure glad I got talked into that one.
― Sparkle Motion, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw that tour in Portland at Crystal Ballroom. I've never seen anyone jump that high without a springboard or trampoline in my life.
It was rad.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 31 December 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
saw them 3 or 4 times in early-mid 90s boston then last year at webby hall nyc - best live band eeeeveeer no competition !!!
― jhøshea, Monday, 31 December 2007 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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i remember nothing about how good the boredoms were at this gig and everything about how bad john cale was
― r|t|c, Monday, 31 December 2007 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
from forks via Noize board
BOREDOMS TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA IN SPRING 2008
SELECT DATES BELOW
Japan's legendary underground group Boredoms are returning to the US in 2008 for a rare and very special series of dates this Spring. More relevant now than ever, Boredoms have recently been heralded for their 77 BOADRUM event in 2007 in New York City, where band leader Eye directed a phalanx of 77 drummers playing in unison. VICE Records also reissued their seminal Super Roots series in 2007, prompting SPIN Magazine to call their body of work "the freakiest recordings ever issued."
Tour dates below, several of which to be performed "in the round".
"The Boredoms led a 77-drummer army in a Brooklyn park and performed one of the decade's most mesmerizing and blissful concerts." - XLR8R
"The BoredomsŠhave a deserved reputation as a dogged and inspired cult band." - THE NEW YORKER
Tour Dates: 3/15/08 SAN DIEGO, CA CANE'S 3/16/08 LOS ANGELES, CA HENRY FONDA THEATER 3/18/08 SAN FRANCISCO, CA FILLMORE (in the round) 3/20/08 PORTLAND, OR CRYSTAL BALLROOM 3/21/08 SEATTLE, WA NEUMO'S 3/25/08 MINNEAPOLIS, MN FIRST AVENUE (in the round) 3/26/08 CHICAGO, IL LOGAN SQUARE AUDITORIUM 3/29/08 BOSTON, MA PARADISE 3/30/08 NEW YORK, NY TERMINAL 5 (in the round) 4/2/08 PHILADELPHIA, PA STARLIGHT 4/3/08 WASHINGTON, DC 9:30 CLUB
― sleeve, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
WHEN I GET PAID ON THURSDAY I AM BUYING TICKETS FOR THE NYC SHOW. THIS IS VERY VERY VERY EXCITING. I WILL SURELY INUNDATE THIS THREAD WITH MY VARIOUS STAGES OF JOY.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
was there another boredoms thread revived recently? i thought some weird vinyls were listed as being for sale
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I was talking about this actually - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re...Remix%3F
Eye remixes of other artists, described thusly by Other Music -
"a collection of remix and DJ work by Boredoms frontman Yamataka EYE, is all killer, no filler. EYE's been no stranger to the remix world -- he's been tearing tracks apart (mostly for Japanese indie, hip-hop, and dance artists, many unfamiliar to Western audiences) and rebuilding them as stomping tropical monsters since around the Super Ae period, turning anything he touches into jungle music in a quite literal sense (though not necessarily the drum-n-bass sense)."
― stingy, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
it fucking sucks when some "freebird" type loser shouts out "acid poice-ayyy" during a quiet moment. happens every time. Does that really happen at every show? In mpls someone did it before the encore began and Eye just smiled and said it back. It seemed like a nice moment at the time. The sound effects heckling (I don't know what else to call it), unfortunately, was mid song.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
you mean Rebore Vol. 0? They had at least one copy in Portland.
-- sleeve, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:38 (Yesterday) Link
goddamn it, we both played ourselves (i got one shortly after you). did the same thing with that dungen - ta det lungt thing. ordered from norway or wherever, and then a year later they flooded stateside.
Does that really happen at every show? In mpls someone did it before the encore began and Eye just smiled and said it back. It seemed like a nice moment at the time. The sound effects heckling (I don't know what else to call it), unfortunately, was mid song.
-- RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:58 (7 minutes ago) Link
i don't really know, was talking out of my ass. saw them at bowery ballroom and it happened. saw them at shepards bush empire and it happened. want to say it happened a third time somewhere, but i can't picture where it would have been so i guess i've only seen them perform twice.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
soft circle and black pus listed as openers for nyc.
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
sanskrit, if it makes you feel any better the Rebore copies were 50 bucks plus $5 to check the item for the night. not TOO much cheaper!
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
50 bux for a rebore is redic
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
So is 25 bones for a t-shirt.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh, not unheard of
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I was a bit bummed that the Super Roots CD were selling for $20 each. I don't paying a little more at a show for something I can get at a local store, if it increases the chances of a band I love from coming back to tour here again. On the other hand, those Super Roots CDs are, what, 10 bucks elsewhere? 2x the normal price breaks my loyalty threshold. :/
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't mind paying, etc.
Were they the Vice reissues? I could understand it if they were the import versions.
― o. nate, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
cds and records are supposed to be CHEAPER at gigs!!!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
you're cutting out the middleman and the band makes WAY more by selling htem to you directly.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Just went to the show last night in Chicago, and agreed about the prices being high, but I guess they have to make a living and it's a capitalist system, so if people are willing to pay it, go ahead. But yeah, $20 for Super Roots is quite much, especially when most of them aren't that long. I was more interested in some Yoshimi thing, but it was $40. There was also the Yoshimi and Mats Gustafsson collab for $30, which I think my local store had for $17 or $18. No Eye - Re: Remix though, sadly, but then that would have probably cost $40 too.
ANYWAY, the show itself was TREMENDOUS & SUPER, as everyone has said. It was my 2nd time seeing them, and having the 7-necked guitar thing added a lot to it, both musically and visually. And having the show in the round and being able to stand right beside the stage, specifically next to Eye's set-up was great. I can't believe he was still able to move around and even jump as much as he did with the broken foot. Very impressive indeed. Boredoms for life!
P.S. Does anyone have any idea about the music being played between bands? It was various tribal chant type stuff, probably just from comp's maybe, but I wouldn't mind checking out more of that kind of thing.
― stingy, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
$20 for Super Roots is quite much, especially when most of them aren't that long.
DOLLAR IS WEAK
was more interested in some Yoshimi thing, but it was $40.
Yunnan Colorfree? it is v good
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think it was Yunan Colorfree, looking at the cover of that one. Sounds cool though, cover of Death Valley 69 with Kim Gordon! I don't remember the title of what was there last night, unfortunately. There was also a DVD of OOIOO videos, I think that was $50. Does anyone have that Live at Sun Flancisco CD/DVD? Would love to see the footage, but can't justify spending $53 for it.
― stingy, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
This coming August 8th, in New York, Boredoms will be heading up a sequal to the 77 Drummer Boadrum concert that was held under the Brooklyn Bridge. This year, 8/8/08, there will be eighty-eight drummers. Numerology aligns expansion.
― sleep, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Sure, but they were selling the Vice reissue CDs (not imports as o nate inquired) for $20 each, which I can find for $10 at any store in town.
Hey, they can sell the CDs for any price they want! Whatever. But if they don't sell any because they're jacked too high, then that hurts the Bores too. Weak dollar sucks for anyone touring the U.S., whether the band is from the U.S. or not. Just sayin'.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
$10 refers to wrapped/new/sealed, btw
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
lol but they dont live in america
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Does anyone have that Live at Sun Flancisco CD/DVD? Would love to see the footage, but can't justify spending $53 for it.
I have it and its not worth it
I would also like to know about this
Show was FANTASTIC yesterday, although not as completely mind-blowing as when I saw them at Intonation, despite lack of length/encore.
― Ivan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-- sleep, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:45 (1 hour ago)
i will rape your village if you are lying about this.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I will be there for 9/9/09!!!
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
lol guess they won't be selling too many cds to broke american children
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm excited about 13/13/13
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
the 8/8/8 thing was eye shooting his mouth off; i've seen no concrete info
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
if anyone wants to go to the boston show on saturday night, email me at burnhamsaurusrex at gee mail dot com. i will give you the extra ticket that i have. i would hate to see it go to waste.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
waiting on some sponsorship stuff, but he wants to do it
― Dominique, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
this sounds like a recipe for disaster
Other Music is very excited to be hosting an in-store performance with Japan's legendary Boredoms, who will be playing in the round on the shop floor this Monday, March 31st!! As you can imagine, space will be extremely limited, so starting today (Friday) at 6:00PM, we're going to give single-person passes to the first 50 people who come into the shop and purchase their new album Super Roots 9, out on Thrill Jockey (one CD per customer -- sorry, no web orders). Your receipt will be your ticket, which you'll need to have with you to gain entrance on Monday night.
― mizzell, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno if sales to the show are that crazy, honestly.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
damn other music is gonna be wild
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
it's definitely in the works
best believe i'll get on the list this time :/
8/8 is my birthday :)
― dmr, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm kinda considering going by Other Music tonight now... hmmm...
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
some of the stuff on this new matmos lp is kind of like a digital vcn.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 28 March 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
so good tonight in boston. was hoping for the trident, a la 77boadrum, but the wands and broomstick(?) worked just fine. looking forward to brooklyn in august.
― edb, Sunday, 30 March 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I chickened out and didn't go to Other Music on Friday. I wonder if forks did.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 30 March 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
according to brooklyn vegan's comments, other music had around 20 tickets left at 4:00 pm, today (saturday)
i would love to go, but i have no one to go with. and going to concerts alone is kinda boring for me.
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 30 March 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link
yea dominique otm but we thought 77 drum was going to be in 2006
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 30 March 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i6.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/e1/c0/e36f_1.JPG
― sanskrit, Monday, 31 March 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
boredoms trading cards would be neat.
― Creeztophair, Monday, 31 March 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there was a girl rocking out harder than everyone else on the second floor. i made my way up and hugged her. it was worth it.
― BleepBot, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
last night in ny's terminal 5
Yeah, the crowd on the first floor was a little less than crazy. The performance was so, so awesome though.
― maciej recognizing trill, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It was louder upstairs
― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 March 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna be completely honest - I saw them last night in DC and I was bored outta my fucking mind. Not even the good kind of bored where you can go to sleep, but the kind where you get really agitated and can't sit still. I've seen them before and enjoyed it. I don't think it's that the show got worse (although maybe it did a little bit from the shit they were doing a couple years ago), but I think I'm outgrowing any kind of "experimental" music. I used to love the shit, but now I just like old plain-ass country rock.
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Useful (0), Funny(17), Cool(0)
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
That's too honest Reatard
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/spin.gifBoredoms @ the Barbican in Junehttp://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/spin.gif
― cgi bubka (NickB), Thursday, 26 March 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link