Wednesday March 11, 2009
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Wednesday March 11, 2009 I recently saw Les Claypools's Oddity Fair at Mont Bleu in Stateline, NV. The lineup was Saul Williams, The Yard Dogs Road Show, and the Oddity Fair. Before the show I found some videos on youtube which got my attention: I was almost out of luck when I showed up without a ticket and the show was sold out. Fortunately there were some tickets released late and I was able to enjoy the show. It was a nice surprise to see a show like this sell out in Tahoe. Maybe Mont Bleu will go back to having more interesting events? I missed Saul Williams. That set must have been really short. The Yard Dogs were like a carny side show with good music and a burlesque sub theme. Sword swallowing style carny acts, weird sub themes some making fun of other music genres, a pretty cool 50s style burlesque show (cool feathers, pasties, nice bodies, good choreography, classy), and some pretty good music including various voices, guitar, bass, drums, and horns. The video about doesn't do it justice. Oddity Faire was a percussionist (xylophone and other like instruments), trap set, cellist, and bassist (Les). On the surface that is 2.5 rhythmic instruments and one 1.5 melodic instruments (splitting the percussionist) but in reality Les pretty much plays lead and some barely bass like instruments (the single string variable tuned hammered bass for instance). I like their stuff but it can be repetitive, spacey, and dark. A pretty intense crowd down front but nothing I couldn't keep up with. Les likes to mess with peoples heads and tease songs of his that are popular. He teased Sea of Cheese and others. I like that kind of stuff and as a Claypool fan I have a hard time imagining how you couldn't at least learn to deal with it but it still seems to get his fans going. His band wore some weird masks at times but in general they were pretty vanilla. At least for what it could have been or what the Yard Dogs just had thrown at us. Les vanilla, heh, maybe not. ( Mar 11 2009, 05:58:06 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments:
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