Hodag, Commode Minstrels, Anti-Ear & Rcomplexx

Great show at G3 last night. Hodag's set was mostly new ideas not used in our previous show. Less-synth heavy, but there were still emulated and actual analog synths involved in a pretty significant way. "you can take the boy outta the extended cab, but you can't take the extended cab outta the boy" & "jacob looks like a guy from a horror film!" are just the sorts of things you should've been thinking. "neanderthal hunks of chopped wood ready for the stove" -- that's right too. We're going to have to play out more often to get used to making things translate in the live situation, but pick up a copy of our new CDR to hear how good things can get in Bayview. Best set I've ever heard from the Commode Minstrels. Perhaps it was the addition of a new fourth member on ukulele. Great range of sounds and approaches. Cheesy keyboard vamps, viola guitar solos, boingy sampler tapping and other assorted goofy noises. Spontaneous set redesigns involving Spanish verbs and abstract art. That violist sure has hot legs. Everything came through very clearly, which was impressive considering the amount of people playing fucked up noise generators through a notoriously muddy PA. Anti-Ear did a modular analog synth set like he's been known to do. Delay pedals and vocals were also involved. Rcomplexx started out with an evil doom bass line growing increasingly harsher. Blasts of noise and tape rewind sounds. Set down the bass and sat down at the typewriter for the second half. Played the writing machine acoustically after initial mic'ing attempts results in huge bursts of feedback. Somehow its clicking keys were quite loud enough to cut through and Rcomplex finished the set unphased. Best night of Exp.Folx I can remember. Thanks to Head Boggle for setting it up. I'd have more to say about Anti-Ear's set and music in general if I wasn't fucking around with my broken camera so much, but at least you can get a visual report of the show as well at http://www.flickr.com/photos/74578389@N00/.