Wednesday, March 10, 1999 at 8pm.
I'm the Misc person in Indra's review and here's mine.
I basically have the same thing to say. All four bands played for the New
York Underground Film Festival so that means they showed skits that New
Yawkers created. Many of them basically had people falling off skateboards
and out of shopping carts, and creating general mayhem. They were really
random and funny, and should have been shown earlier. (Scott was in one of
them by the way...I probably missed it when I went to the Restroom downstairs)
Anyway back to the show.
The first band, a hip hop trio called House of Reps were a surprise to
everyone. The bill originally had three bands. They weren't bad..but I had a
lot of work to do and I wanted to hurry the show along...so I didn't get into
them as much as I could have. I did think the panties wet line was kind of
unneccesary...but what can I do? they're on stage and I'm not.
Next were Rustic Overtones and I kinda liked them (they were also the only
band that were selling merchandise...I was pissed about that). They kind of
reminded me of a love child between Guster and Brother Chameleon. They're last
song needed the assistance of a megaphone. That was a first for me. I thought
that was kinda cool.
I remember it being after 9 and waiting for Girls Against Boys to come on
while watching extreme sports blunders on a screen over the stage.
GVSB came out and opened with "Vogue Thing" which was weird because that's
one of my favorites from Freak*on*ica. They did a variety of material. I'm
sure they would have done more material if it wasn't for the plethora of
technical problems. I might be the only one who was concerned by this, but I
love watching Eli on stage to see if his head will collide with the mic
stand...I'm happy to report that no such thing occurred, unless I missed it.
There was one girl in a tank top (I'm sorry if you're on this list, but it was
damn funny watching you) who seemed to imitate dance moves from Madonna's "Ray
of Light" video during GVSB's set. That's the only way I can put it.
Next were Run DMC and they took forever to come on. I guess you can do that
when you're rap legends. I clocked Jam Master Jay hitting the stage at
11:50pm. Yeah, it was that late. They did such classics as "Mary Mary", "Peter
Piper", "King of Rock", and "Walk This Way". They also did a new song and
really encouraged audience participation. It was really great. I ended up
leaving at 12:30am and they were still going strong. Run gave away his hat to
some kid in the audience which I thought was pretty awesome. When I left, I'm
pretty sure that I saw Eli in the back of the crowd but I was too tired and
pissed off that I had to study for Spanish class to check. Oh well, maybe next
time.
Sorry about the length of this review. I hope it was thorough.
Later
Edwina
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