A suit in Taiwan?

Corbett | February 27, 2004 9:55 AM

Tonight we're playing outside the club for the first time. The guys are pretty psyched. Turtle's doing some fancy function at the 101 for a new club, and asked if I wanted to put together a jazzy thing for all the cool people. DJ SL is spinning as well. Maybe we can fiddle around as well. I haven't played out with a band in a looooonnnnngggg time, so this will be fun. I told Dazz, our drummer, that he needed to wear a suit, and he's like, "A suit in Taiwan??" So he's got to come up with the gear. Reminds me of my first gig when I had to go out and buy a suit.

In other news...
Last night another sax player stopped by for the Living Room jam. Klaus Bru is from Germany, and played great. I heard him do some out stuff with laptops and a mixer, so knew he would be ok with some weird stuff, so we opened the night with some authentically weird stuff. I started putting down some avante stuff on the Echoplex in odd time signatures, Klaus started playing some wild German soprano, then Arnaud took out his clarinet and started into some French klezmer, and finally Dennis got his tenor out and started honking like a Canadian duck. We did this for nearly 20 minutes, moving from vamp to vamp.

I think the audience was thinking "Jesus god, what is this bizarre concoction of sound?" Hopefully five years from now one of them will be driving his car, stopped at a red light, hear someone honk, then suddenly remember that night in the Living Room when those four foreigners were tooting away on instruments with weird loops and harmonies. They'll smile, thinking back 5 years and say, "Hey, that was a great show."

This is always one goal in music for me: To wake people up, so they say things like, "Hey, that was a great show." If only I had like a web counter thingie that tallied up when people thought this thought, so I could check up if people ever remembered a show or were influenced in some way by something I've played. That would be cool.

Category: Music