Hey Everybody, Episode 8 is here, and this month it kicks off with a music video from Chad VanGaalen (Sub Pop).The video, self-drawn and animated by VanGaalen, is for the song “Clinically Dead”, and it features a kaleidoscope of beautiful and mysterious dream-like characters morphing in and out of each other. The song can be found on his Sub Pop debut Infiniheart, and it’s an awesome collection of dark and terse pop songs exploring themes of loss, passion, and longing. These amazing home recordings of haunting minor key melodies, and sung in their fragile yet inviting way, reveal an artist of high caliber. We at Live Eye Tv are very excited to air this video and we hope you will look forward to future work from this talented musician and graphic artist.
Also this month, take a little trip with us to the country, psychedelic style, with The Gris Gris (Birdman Records). This band features the fiery, electro-acoustic guitar impresario Greg Ashley, as well as smoldering organ work from Noel VonHarmonson (who also lends his knob twisting talents to those gods of acid rock Comets on Fire). This band weaves a magical blend of 60’s style country-fried jams with an adventurous sense for musical composition, and they are quickly garnering a loyal following on the Left Coast. Catch the gypsy magic with this performance video that was shot in the summer of ’05 at Neumos in Seattle, Washington.
Up next the new installment of Turk and Jim. Claymation gore at it’s finest from the exiled midwesterner Jason Pace!! A man eating turkey befriends a reluctant fellow named Jim and disaster ensues. This episode finds them out at their favorite rock club to hear legends of the business Goat!!…will Turk control his carnivorous impulses?…will Goat live to record a double album…and will Jim make it to the next episode? “Damn those boys is bad!” Yo, all this and more…
If you were to die and go to Rock and Roll heaven the girls of Josh Taylor’s Friends Forever would meet you at the gates in bikinis with flame throwers attached to their guitars/keyboards-and trust me, you wouldn’t look back! If you haven’t yet experienced the party crashing madness that is Friends Forever this video, shot by our ace reporter Anita Fang on the sidewalk in front of Electric Heavyland in Seattle, is the right place to begin. These ladies rock it heavy and hard and you better duck when the shit gets crazy.
To finish the show we have Mono from Japan. This quartet spins dreamy and haunting slabs of shoegazer beauty piled slowly layer by layer. The music builds delicately and deftly, taking hallucinatory shapes of its own, until it erupts and launches the listener into sonic spheres of gorgeous chaos and musical meltdown. This live performance was captured at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle, and shows Mono to be new masters in a tradition begun by such shoegazer greats as Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine…Thanks for watching and we’ll catch you next month with another great episode of Live Eye Tv.
mr. muscles 10/12/05
- Chad VanGaalen [mov + 26mb]
- LiveEye Intro [mov + 10mb]
- Gris Gris [mov + 17mb]
- Turk and Jim [mov + 16mb]
- Friends Forever [mov + 7mb]
- Mono [mov + 28mb]
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