Shows/1999-10-09

October 9, 1999
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Empty Bottle
City	Chicago, IL
Tour
Event
Billing	The Red Krayola David Grubbs Joan of Arc

Announcement

Chicago Reader

October 7, 1999

Monica Kendrick

Red Krayola head Mayo Thompson’s been an icon of the avant-garde rock set for more than 30 years, orchestrating masterful freak-outs in the late 60s, joining Pere Ubu in the 70s, producing records for the Raincoats, the Fall, and Cabaret Voltaire in the 80s, and ferreting out the cream of the post-rock crop to complement his deliciously skewed poetics in the 90s. That said, on his recent records for Drag City, including the new Fingerpainting, he’s alternately sounded recharged and propped up: the restless, sometimes inspired sonic kitchen-sinkdom gives him plenty of room to rest on his laurels. The 12-person lineup on the record includes guitarist Tom Watson, who’s not on this tour but passes through the same night with Mike Watt (see below); the roster for these shows includes David Grubbs, vocalist Sandy Yang, John McEntire on acoustic drums, and Watt’s old mate George Hurley on electric drums. At the Empty Bottle, Grubbs (in a solo set) and Joan of Arc open.

Recording

Full show on YouTube

Set list

• Bad Medicine
• There There Betty Betty
• Vile Vile Grass
• Mother
• In My Baby's Ruth
• Free Form Freak-Out
• An Old Man's Dream
• Come on Down
• Venus in the Morning
• Pessimisty
• Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I
• I'm So Blasé
• Luster
• Hurricane Fighter Plane
• Wives in Orbit
• The Mistakes of Trotsky
• Farewell to Arms
• Horses
• Keep All Your Friends

References

The Red Krayola Shows
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Live recordings