I'm seeing GUITAR WOLF tomorrow night!

The show seems to be sold out but I'm hoping to get in at the door.

I have heard their live shows are nuts, and seen a DVD that supported that fact. AWESOME!

And yes, they talk a lot about space and planets. And true love beyond genders. AWESOME!

It serves me right for being asleep at the wheel with my ticket buying. I forgot about CMW week -- that partly explains why the show sold out so far ahead of time.

Any word on a European tour?

You've not listened to any of the last two Link Wray records then?

Guitar Wolf = loud formless no-rhythm-section hard rock performed by Japanese stumblebums for dilettantes who don't like hard rock.

Rate an A plus for image as it relates to "Ultra Man" in leather and old "Tobor, the Fantastic 8th Man" anime.

I saw them at Highbury Garage last year, they rocked. And Wild Zero is fantastic!

Perfect case of style over substance. They havent been back to Australia since the local bands they toured with wiped the floor with 'em.

I also like Link Wray

When they played a bar in SF a while back they blew TWO PAs that night and blew up a bass amp.

Katsumiya Tobacco City!!!! Shimane Slim!!?!@! Gakulan Rider!$!! Ritalinrock!#!?!

The booklet for whatever Cd I have lists:

Guitar Wolf
Bass Wolf
Drum Wolf

It wasn't as loud as I was hoping for. Maybe 0.5 Mogwai (Delgados in the same venue last October were 0.24 Mogwai. I saw Art Bergmann play there in 1993 and it was 0.76 Mogwai)

Rockets Red Glare in the same venue in Feb 2003 were 0.65 Mogwai.

For comparison, the last time I saw Low in that venue, they were 0.02 Mogwai. A loud fart is 0.008 Mogwai.

Couldn't hear my own voice after I saw J&MC. My ears rang for a week.

Mind: how did you end up getting in?

I think I will make a project out of this ... a list of 0.01 - 1.00 M(ogwai) in increments of 0.01. Kind of like Bill Simmons' Vengeance Scale.

I only saw the Mary Chain once (1989), and it before I actually started liking them. I'd say it was 0.5, around the same as GW was tonight.

how did you end up getting in?
I decided to get there when the doors opened (8:30) and see what I could do. As it turns out, they did let a bunch of us early-birds pay to get in at the door. I would have kept an eye out for you, but I don't know what you look like :)

From where I was sitting, it did look like people were taking some rough landings. The friend I was with was on the floor for a while and ended up with a chipped tooth.

RIP, dude.

RIP

:( :( :(

truly sad. may you be rocking in heaven, basswolf.

I'm seeing GUITAR WOLF tomorrow night!

you serious man? report back!

Friend saw the LA show the other night, didn't even know they were coming through! Apparently awesome, of course.

I stayed home and TOOK A LONG WALK WITH MY GIRLFRIEND last night!

funny what a sunday night can do to a person

aw, you didn't go? i mean, i didn't go, but...you didn't go?

i first saw guitar wolf in chapel hill NC in 1994 (i think? thereabouts, might have been 95). only had a couple super secret indie LPs out at that point. was great and hilarious and very sparsely attended. saw them again a couple years later at the breakroom in seattle. by this time they had stuff out on matador and the show was MOBBED with the worst kind of comicon nerd people, fans of generic comedy japanese-ness, i guess. soured me on the guitar wolf live phenomenon. now that some time has passed, would love to see them again.

^ i lie. wasn't chapel hill. was seattle, either the OK hotel or the off ramp.

I'm seeing GUITAR WOLF tonight!

I saw Guitar Wolf once in San Francisco back in '95-96. The main thing I remember was that the singer opened the set by chugging a whole can of beer.

^ he's done this ever time i've seen them (three times, iirc). stands w his back to the audience in a spotlight, adjust his glasses and jacket, combs his hair, chugs a beer.

^ He did this last night also only with a shot of tequila.

Kinda disappointed that he didn't build a human pyramid last night (he's been doing this lately)

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5119/6913660742_7d3a26fc74_z.jpg

Last time I saw these guys it was an amazing show, and I remember they just kept playing. There were 1 or 2 encores and audience members just kind of fizzled out cos it was getting late. But GW was so raw they kept tearing through stuff at full volume and full intensity until the lights went on. At the end of the night there was only a handful of people left and they just did not care. So awesome.

I saw Guitar Wolf tonight! It was the first time I'd seen them since (looks upthread) 2004, but they didn't really change anything apart from Bass Wolf for obvious reasons. Seiji and nu-bass wolf downed a beer each at the start, it was an absolute racket and at no point was a guitar tuned. Wasn't that loud tho tbf. I was slightly concerned before they came onstage cos I've had pretty bad tinnitus for a couple of years but it was fine really.

I would love to see guitar wolf live.

After Seiji did that thing where he drags someone on stage and makes them make noise on his guitar for a few minutes while he poses around for a bit, his guitar cut out for a minute and I shouted Jet Love (or is it Jett Love, never quite sure) and they played it as the encore. Probably a coincidence but it was fun at the time.

Which reminds me, back in 2004 it was some kid he got on stage to thrash his guitar and the kid cut his finger and bled all over the guitar, and about 10 years later I met this guy with a Guitar Wolf jacket and I told him that story and he claimed that was him. He was the right age, I chose to believe him

I saw guitar wolf once, and peed next to the singer, not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but close

needs must in times like these

Took a road trip to Memphis in the mid-'90s with a few friends. We stopped in a pizza place for lunch and saw a flyer advertising Guitar Wolf there that night. Seemed like an odd place for a show but when we returned the tables and chairs had been cleared out and a small stage was set up. It was a ridiculous amount of fun. One of the guys I was there with is a vintage clothing dealer and he was going nuts trying to figure out if the band were wearing authentic classic Levis or if they were exceptionally well-done reproductions.

it was an absolute racket and at no point was a guitar tuned

this rules

i love my memories of Guitar Wolf. it must have been 10+ years since i saw them. pretty cool they are still rockin. two things i remember most:

1) the opener, where they all come out to guitar noise and stand around for a minute or so combing their hair back like they are in a 50s hot rod movie

2) them playing non-stop and just thrashing the entire time. i remember it being late into the night and many people had left and they were still on stage playing like it was a crowd of 1000

someday i have to see the movie they made. there was a clip from it on Atomic TV i saw in the late 90s that forever blew my mind (pretty sure this is before i discovered The Cramps)

I wish I would have seen Guitar Wolf live. Spinning the Golden Black comp right now and it whips so much ass.

Garage rock is probably the most overdone, over populated, toss a stone in any mid-sized city and hit a garage rock bass player ass genre, but good god damn when it is done right it is the best thing ever.

The loudest band I ever heard.

I had the pleasure of seeing them back in the pre-COVID era. They were fantastic. Guitar Wolf (singular) played a solo encore that went on and on and on. I hope to have even half as much stamina as him when I am as old as he was then

Saw them a couple years ago and it was a ton of fun, still outrageously loud. Set was probably a 2:1 ratio of extended wall-of-noise jet engine feedback jams vs traditional "songs", with him occasionally screaming to be heard over the squall about the power of rock & roll and being happy. So good.

last 2 times they played where I live I was already going to other gigs, so I haven't seen them since 2018. tbh I haven't been paying attention and they've released 3 albums since the last one I listened to. maybe Guitar Wolf is what's missing from my life. I will try to see them next time they come over

as mentioned above do try to catch the guitar wolf film Wild Zero if you can... it's pretty... wild. excerpts from synopsis:

Ace returns to the gas station and rescues Tobio from a group of zombies. They flee to an abandoned building, and once inside, share a kiss. Tobio then reveals to Ace that she is transgender, causing him to scream and run into another room. There, he sees a vision of Guitar Wolf, who tells him that "love has no borders, nationalities, or genders". Ace then realizes that zombies have entered the building, and blows the whistle Guitar Wolf gave him. Guitar Wolf hears the whistle, and the band heads to his location. Ace begins killing zombies with a crowbar, while Tobio finds her way outside and sees an alien spacecraft in the sky.....

...The alien mothership passes above Guitar Wolf and Yamazaki. Guitar Wolf stands atop a building, unsheaths his guitar—his fretboard being the handle of a sword—and uses the blade to cut through the mothership. The mothership explodes, and the zombies are all neutralized. Ace confesses his love for Tobio, and they kiss. After sunrise, Guitar Wolf gifts Ace a comb, and the band rides off into the distance. Ace says he never again went to a Guitar Wolf show, but that he learned "love has no borders, nationalities, or genders", and that he will remain with Tobio.

In the mid/late ‘90s I took a NY > Memphis road trip with some friends to see Graceland and the National Civil Rights Museum. We were eating lunch at like a pizza place or diner in Memphis and saw flyers for Guitar Wolf at the restaurant that night. Couldn’t really see how they were going to put on a show there but we came back later and all the tables and chairs were pushed up against the walls and a small stage set up. Fantastic show. One of my friends wasn’t particularly into garage rock but had a business selling vintage clothing on a Japanese auction site and was obsessed with their outfits. He kept pointing out these little details on their jeans, trying to determine if they were genuine vintage or really good modern reproductions.