I called in sick yesterday… I woke up and had a killer headache and was sore all over… I just kinda blobbed around sleeping and watching TV (catching up on all the programs that accumulated on the TiVo while it was away). By the afternoon I was feeling OK, though, and decided to go to last night’s Fantomas show (since I had already spent the money on the tickets).
I missed the first act, some laptop warrior who goes by the name “end.”, but what I heard was actually pretty good… Made me wish I didn’t miss it. After that was the ever glorious Melt Banana (a.k.a. The
I had never seen Fantomas live before, through a series of complications and mishaps, but I have been dying to do so because I love their studio albums (and the bootlegs I have accumulated over the years). They were freaking amazing, Dave Lombardo impressed me more than he ever did in Slayer, and Trevor Dunn on bass is a force to be reckoned with… Buzz Osbourne, of the horrible band The Melvins, did a fantastic job too on Guitar, showing that just because a musician is in a shitty band doesn’t mean they are a shitty musician.. Mike Patton was spot on, doing his beatbox-from-another-land routine… Wonderful, wonderful show…