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Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, 31 October 1998 (Halloween!)
with the Hangovers and Firewater
Low opened for the Hangovers (who were pretty bad, which is why I'm back
early from the show) and Firewater (who I missed because of the
aforementioned poor showing).
Setlist was something like (order generally right):
And then, something truly amusing happened. In the grand tradition of
Phish's Halloween "dress up like another band" bash, Low finished the last
three songs of their set in the style of the Misfits.
I never thought I'd see the day that Low played a blistering thrash punk
song. Now I have. They *really* cranked up the distortion and wailed. No
joke. I just about fell off my chair laughing. And Alan's guitar solo.
Wow.
Just imagine Alan screaming in quadruple time, "Over the sand! Over the
plan! Over the empire!" and "I can hear 'em, baby!" You get the picture.
Incidently, I asked Zak what the second 'punk-version' song was because I
couldn't understand a single word of it. He didn't know. "Maybe it was
Turn, I'm not sure."
Please, please someone tell me they taped the show tonight - this was truly
one for the archive.
- Richard Lewis
After a satisfying set of mostly newer material (Condescend, Lord),
the band fumbled on stage with their backs turned for a few moments.
They emerged as the Misfits, complete with black t-shirts,
black eyeliner rings and black fin bangs (Alan even had the proper
tattoos drawn on).
Not heeding the shouts for "Green Hell" and "Skulls" they launched
into thrashed up versions of "Words," "Turn" and "Ocean." The
temptation to start a pit was excruciating, but I resisted (hey,
there were still people sitting on the floor). The crowd seemed to
be split between completely mystified and rolling laughing. Quite
the Halloween treat.
--Lisa
I was talking to Alan last night, about the Spaceland show and he told
me a story about the show that I must relate....
He had been reading "Get in the Van" By Henry Rollins (the Blag Flag
book) and he had read the story about the night they played w/ The
Misfits. He said that it took a bit of convincing but he got Mimi and
Zack to do the whole Misfits thing. Earlier that day he got Zack to draw
on the tattoos, and along with those he got him to do the Black Flag
bars. So later on they are in the venue waitng for soundcheck, and Alan
decides to go wash his hair cause he's feeling kind of grungy. So he's
in the bathroom washing his hair and someone comes in and says "Nice
Bars, man", and proceeds to take a piss. Al thanked him and didn't think
anything of it. Then another guy walks in and says "Hey Des." The guy
named Des leaves. Then Al looks up and looks at the guy, and then he
realized: that was Des from Black Flag. They both sarted laughing.
Neat-o huh?
gabriel piller
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- Lord, can you hear me?
- Condescend
- Starfire
- Two Step (?)
- Be There
- Coattails
- Will the Night
- Words
- ????
- Over the Ocean
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