THEE OH SEES!!!

Loujoe

Wow. Great find! What a creative band too. I never heard them till a few months back. Reminds me of a club band I caught a couple shows back in the 90s, johnny skillsaw. The guitarist used a skillsaw on stage for noise effect. They did a crazy cover of I am.the walrus(see below, I just found it!...sounds a bit different then I remember, 'recent' remix) Just outside the box creativity not trying to appeal to anyone specifically. But the few that get it can't get enough. Something like that.

https://youtu.be/mIdXOOjKwTY

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Loujoe said:

Just bragging/showing off my score in case tempo missed it. Only 30ish bucks each!

Where the hell did u find this at?  Peter dammit signed it too!

Loujoe

https://www.secretserpents.com/collections/the-garage
I was lucky. I always check out this site just to look at posters. They just opened 'the garage' section of random stuff. Saw the signed records, was like I think thats the band tempo told me about. Snagged them! 

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Loujoe said:

https://www.secretserpents.com/collections/the-garage
I was lucky. I always check out this site just to look at posters. They just opened 'the garage' section of random stuff. Saw the signed records, was like I think thats the band tempo told me about. Snagged them! 

Cool man!  For posters of Oh Sees my buddy Dan Curran makes them for their NY shows.  He asked the band/Dwyer and he was cool with it.  He gives the band some and he gets to sell them.  I have never asked him to get me a band signed one though...

Loujoe

Nice. artists supporting artists. Will catch them someday.

Tim Simmons

Hey, earlier in the week they put up new variants of 2 of their 3 Levitation sessions. Check out the Levitation site, or your indie retailer. They don’t ship until October, but these live sets are basically a career mishmash, done live with no audience. They sound nice and raw, but fantastically produced. Could not recommend d them more. 

Loujoe

Nice^^.  I think they have tentaive tour dates too. I'm new to this band, but dig their unique sounds. 

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Tim Simmons said:

Hey, earlier in the week they put up new variants of 2 of their 3 Levitation sessions. Check out the Levitation site, or your indie retailer. They don’t ship until October, but these live sets are basically a career mishmash, done live with no audience. They sound nice and raw, but fantastically produced. Could not recommend d them more. 

The first one was killer w Chem Farmer.

Tim Simmons

Totally. Big Sur and sesh 2 are great as well. So many highlights. 

tempo_n_groove

So...  Saw them Thursday and Saturday.

Thursday I had more fun but I liked the setlist flow better on Saturday.

On Saturday the lead man John Dwyer was walking through the merch area and almost everyone didn't even recognize him.  I yelled heyyyy Dwyer!  He smiled at me and patted me on my shoulder.  We have met a few times before but not sure if he remembered me but I was happy to run into him again.

So Thursday capacity was half maybe at the club Warsaw in Brooklyn?  Got a great spot off the rail in front of the stacks.  A few years ago the put in a barrier so you can't stage dive anymore.  It used to be awesome when you could go right up on the stage but anywho, I hung out there for the night.  

Opening band was Bronze from SF.  They were interesting.  A drummer, singer and a tech guy that made guitar and other sounds with electronics in his hands.  Truly wild and enjoyed it.

Oh Sees came on early and banged out 20 or so songs in just over an hour.  They have Chem Farmer in rotation again after dusting that one off in the Levitation sessions so i am very happy w that.

My buddy didn't do the poster as he was told that Dwyer was doing them but we never see his work on the east coast as it sells out before it reaches us...

They have a new guy in charge of their Merch and they had a damn Purple shirt!  I bought that sucker and am, wearing it today.  They also had every album, almost, for sale which was nice considering they always sell out.

Saturday purple shirts and almost all the others were gone.  Sold out of a few records too.  Band started off w new songs from Foul Form then got into the familiar stuff.  The keys player Tomas plays guitar on the new tracks.  The new songs are heavy as hell.  Almost hardcore like?  They have a video for one of them. It's definitely different, lol.  Also I haven't seen Dwyers clear SG the past two tours oh and he has a new outfit for touring.  I guess he retired the striped shirt combo.  For five years in a row he wore the same outfit on tour, lol.

Same as Thursday.  An hour or so and 20 songs, no encore.  More and more people are reoccurring fans and then you have the locals that just go to a local show and are there for the night only, those people are annoying...  Anywho.  great live show as usual.  I got my local deli guy whom is 62 into them.  He is very happy that I turned him onto them.

Take in a show if you can!

Loujoe

Got me into them too. Never caught a show. Someday. Cool band.

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Loujoe said:

Got me into them too. Never caught a show. Someday. Cool band.

Right on!

Loujoe

Only dude I ever saw play a guitar up so high. Psycho Deli ic Garage Hardcore Noise. Put that in your ears and smoke it. I took the dare.

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Loujoe said:

Only dude I ever saw play a guitar up so high. Psycho Deli ic Garage Hardcore Noise. Put that in your ears and smoke it. I took the dare.

I believe @brianlux took issue with that too, lol.  The guitar up so high.  He is the opposite of James Hetfield whom has it lower than anyone I have seen.

Tim Simmons

Man. Sounds like a weekend. 

Yeah, read on the Reddit that these shows were bonkers. 

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Tix go on sale for December show at Brooklyn Made.  Newer club in Williamsburg.

tempo_n_groove

Got tix for Saturday!

tempo_n_groove

These guys are touring again next month so sniffing for a new album!