to live & shave in L.A. what are they up to?

it was loud, huge, sweaty, ecstatic, loud, like being trapped in a orgone box with people fucking, it was loud, did I mention that?

yeah, that was the vibe at the show I put on for them. This was when Weasel was living here, so one of his free jazz groups opened, with this dude visiting from Philly, and then he sat in with TLASILA (Weasel, not the Philly dude, but the Philly dude went out for sushi with me, Weasel, Weasel's wife, Tom, Rat and ... one other person who I forget ...

All of sudden there were these beautiful girls onstage, where they in the band?, hanging on Tom and screaming into the mic and I was like "where they hell did they come from?"

ha, probably connections w/Rat and his many INC tours w/Squelchers that are basically him and hot local chicks.

That's what I assumed but in the context of the night they just...appeared out of think air, it was magical

RIP to a wild visionary.

There aren't a ton of clips on youtube, but this Miami cable access TV appearance from 1994 is priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVxSjSmlbk

Unfortunately the performance is brief and the goofy-ass host Doesn't Get It. Tom had such a deep, rich speaking voice, could have done movie trailer voiceovers.

RIP Tom Smith

Only familiar with the TLASILA stuff but I openly lol-ed realising one of the POI albums is called Talking Heads ‘77

that was the first one I heard <3

thanks so much for that video clip above, fantastic