Since there is so much of a thread on this show, my 2 cents are this...it was alright, some moments of excellence and a lot of what I would describe as repetative filler. I thought that it was weird that they were playing a live set but were more or less playing some other peoples' trax like 'house of god" without the vocals <;)>. I was sometimes bored which I blamed on their house music pandering of the SF audience, but then they managed to rescue my attention and feet later in their set. Review of minimal in general, what a bunch of sour grapes. Odviously "modern Mnl" is built on a detroit and experimental foundation and sometimes lacks the soul & distinctions of the original sounds. But I think that it is moving forward with the sound. I am happy that people move forward with music. It is also great because artists like rob hood and jeff mills are the establishment of sound and aren't really accessable to be bringing out to play at small gallery spaces. Alcohol and San francisco, the most memorable part of tejada was going to the bathroom where it appeared someone had throwup on the urine soaked floor and it just smelled really bad and you sort of had to hold the walls so you didn't fall down. That is a party, right? I like drunk folks they have no shame and less motor kontrol, so sometimes they need to be shoved, that is punk rock eh? I thought it was great to be in a really packed space, and i actually like drunks over drug victims. If a drunk passes out you just turn them on their side so they don't drown in their vomit, while if a ghb user passes out you call an ambulence. San Francisco is doing all right, better than anytime in the last 5-7 years. There is usually somebody worth seeing every month. Next month Dan bell and lowfish, quit complaining and start dancing. BTW Current 93 shows here were really great and pretentious as hell, but he did alot of stuff related to jhon balance. There was some new Nurse With Wound material that they played to bring on the band that was exquisite and very electronicly driven, drool. I got to talk to steven stapleton for a little while and that was really swell. Supposedly, there are going to be Nurse with Wound current 93 shows here in the spring. tom kat
