I know Carl and Gary might want to see this. It's not a real review, but since the band doesn't seem to tour in the states........and this ties into that theremin thread..... > saw Pere Ubu last night at a pleasantly intimate club in a red light > district of Tokyo--couldn't have been more than 150-200 people there. > Dave > Thomas is very, very large and bald these days (sings barefoot, wears > a > small plastic apron with an extra mic taped haphazardly to it, looks > like a > really angry butcher). Tom Herman was on guitar--guy's got a weird > finger-picking style, and kept a tiny slide on his pinky throughout > the show > (two solid hours of entertainment). Those two were the only original > members, although the current keyboard player still plays one of those > 70s-era Moog-ish EMLs and a theremin--that thing that makes odd > science > fiction movie sounds when you wave your hands around it. > > The playing was tighter and more coherent than I expected. They truly > rocked > on Final Solution--and I had an intense flashback to the spring of > 1988 and > the God Things. > [Matt Benz] (Editor's note: the God Things (named after a Stark Trek quote: "That must be their "God thing" or some such nonsense) was a college cover band I was in. Yes, we did Final Solution. The frat boys loved us.) > Don't know if the earlier, self-consciously arty Michael > Stipe swiped some of Dave's rhetorical asides (asking "Any questions > so > far?" every few songs) or odd facial ticks and hand gestures that he > (Stipe) > used to do before he became a rock star, but there were some striking > similarities. > > That is all. > >
