Shows/2006-04-29

April 29, 2006
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J Paul Getty Museum
City	Los Angeles, CA
Tour
Event	Aesthetics of Risk
Billing	The Red Krayola Future Pigeon

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Announcement

Getty

2006

Following the conference, at 7:00 p.m., is an evening of alternative music in the Museum Courtyard. L.A. band Future Pigeon performs with DJ Eddie Ruscha at 7:00 p.m.; the Red Krayola take the stage at 8:00 p.m.

Recording

Video

• Part 1
  • Hurricane Fighter Plane
• Part 2
  • Yik Yak (partial)
  • Horses
• Part 3
  • Venus in the Morning (partial)
  • Larking
  • Born in Flames (partial)

Retrospectives

Allen Ravenstine, 2010

[...] I did go out to L.A. about four years ago- Mayo had called me now and then and said 'hey, would you play a gig with me?' And I would always say 'yeah, I don't know if it would work out.' And I really didn't know if I wanted to or not but I'd say that. And then he called me some time and said 'it's coming, it's in April, would you do it?' And I said 'alright, I will request those days (off).' And then I ended up getting the days and then I had no excuse. I got the synthesizers from a store room in Long Island City. And this is how egotistical I was- by the end of the time of me playing, I put those things in their cases and I didn't save squat! Not a single sheet of paper that had anything to do with what I ever did I save because I knew that if I ever wanted to do something with those things again, I knew them inside and out and I could just pick it up and do it. Well, as in The Magnificent Ambersons, I got my comeuppance. I pulled those things out to prepare to go out to L.A. to do that gig and my wife was horrified. She said 'aren't you going to try to rehearse or anything?' I said 'well, you know, I'll get it...' And about a week before I was supposed to go, I brought them home. I was clueless. Panicked! Fortunately, I still have a connection to Robert Wheeler who's the guy who does the synth work now (in Ubu). I called him up and said 'I’m in trouble.' So he sent me some stuff and I figured it out.

I went out to L.A. and I played two shows with Mayo, one at the Getty Museum, which is pretty amazing, right on the side of that hill, with the sound going out toward the Pacific. They asked me to turn my instrument down because I was disturbing people out there. I think they made some joke about how ships in the harbor could hear it. And then we played at Spaceland. And those kids that Mayo had hired to play with him were great musicians. One of them, the guitar player, was a big fan of mine, which was amazing to know that was still existing. And he could play most of what I could do. Pretty amazing. And there were these young women who were singers and they were just wonderful people, fabulous musicians. Mayo is just a furious man- just mad all the time. Did not enjoy hanging around with him. And then I didn't get paid what I was supposed to get paid and it all just made me think 'OK, I know why I don't do this anymore.' So that was really it. So I packed it up and put them back in Long Island City and I thought I would never get them out again. 'So why do you keep them?' I don't know. I had trouble really deciding that I really am done and get rid of them. [...]

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