pinebark

While cruising the isles at Liquor Mart friday afternoon, I receive a call from Jay who just spotted Trey Anastasio buying a pair of mesh shorts at the Lenox Target. I find this fascinating, and procede to scoop up two 4-packs of the Gonzo Imperial Porter.

Cut to later on: Tonight's evening with Pinback was to be the last of a steady month's worth of shows at the Fox. Allison was in town for the event, and after a quick bite on the hill we headed over to get my gear set up.

Soon after I raised my stand, another taper came in with a duffel bag full of god knows what. She was a bit frazzled, having left her mics in the car and worrying that she was late, so I let her patch off my rig. Her oversize tote contained all kinds of gear & cables in seperate tupperware containers which she proceeded to open / close, all the while plugging / unplugging various pieces of equipment. After a good 30 minutes of this she was eventually successful in getting her minidisc plugged in. Her 'setting up' ritual was a tad frenetic, and I just had to give her some good humored grief about the amount of effort she just went through to that end. I continued to pull her chain a bit when she asked about my source lineage, giving her a barrgae of unnecessary articulations such as cable diameter and decibul padding, which she feverishly jotted down.

After the opening band was through, she thought Pinback was yet another opener, until I informed her that they were indeed headlining the show. She proceeded to pull out the ticket which they let her through the door with: The Motet, Fox Theatre, Saturday, June 4th. She looked around completely bewildered, and then came to the shocking realization that she was indeed a day early for the hippy stylings of her beloved Motet.

Set:
bloods on fire
the yellow ones
syracuse
non photo blue
concrete seconds
penelope
3x0
seville
tripoli
microtonic wave
offline p.k.
grey machine
loro
fortress
prog
AFK

Encore:
XIY
tres
manchuria
june



-notet, neph-