victo fest - friday - braxton has intense press conference in hotel - afterspending 20minutes on each question where he goes way off on tri-axioms and jazz historymetatheoretics. coley asks last question: "is it true you cleaned out the wolfeyes merchtable at a swedish festival last year?" -- braxton leaps up and says wolf eyesare the newuniverse and he decided right then and there to move to stockholm and become acook sohe could be closer to this music. then he learns they are from michigan and hisworldviewis shifted and he realizes that there is hope for america with new angels of artexistinghere like wolf eyes. he claims his friends now refer to him as anthony "wolfeyes" braxton.no shit. so wolfs and hair po show up and we hit the hotel bar hard and braxtonappearsafter his duo gig with fred frith and connects with wolfs and nate asks braxtonif he wouldlike to smoke a joint. "I would be honored to smoke marijuana with the wolfeyes". Again,no shit. Next day braxton is at gig (3 pm) and nate asks braxton if he wants tojam w/ thewolfs and braxton says yes, just let me know when and nate says play the wholegig dude.So after more weed blowing they hit the stage. the audience is all seated atround tables ina huge theatre called the Colisee. Hair police already decimated this crowd,they wereawesome. But now we're tripping. this is too unreal. Braxton swoops in and outof thejams, at one point doing killer long sax tone duets w/ olson. Nate announcesstabbed inthe face. and then olson asks braxton what jam they should do next. "BlackVomit" sezBraxton. seriously, no shit. unbelievable sickness.
― brock (brock), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
ANTHONY "WOLF EYES" BRAXTON
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― brock (brock), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)
"That's right, Iggy and the Stooges were every bit as good as Archie Shepp, and John Coltrane could have played with the Velvet Underground. (I more or less proved this contention the other night when I went on WPIX-FM in Manhattan and simultaneously played 'Race Mixing' by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks on one turntable and the short version of 'Nonaah' by Roscoe Mitchell on another, saying 'Get ready all you tape hounds, because we have here a vintage unreleased take of Roscoe jamming with Lydia Lunch and the Jerks at the last Montreux Festival,' and most people apparently believed it.)"-- Lester Bangs, 1980
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)