Saturday, August 08, 2009
Three shows in three days: Day 2: "No Deachunter" - Dan Deacon, Deerhunter and No Age
August 5th: Dan Deacon, Deerhunter and No Age round robin @ (on?) Memorial Union Terrace
First things first: this was an outdoors show with what seemed to be an indoor PA system. It could have been literally two or three times the decibels for those of us standing towards the middle, but the show blew my mind anyway. Here's Dan Deacon's first song,
The concept, briefly: all three bands on stage at once [Dan Deacon (1) + No Age (2) + Deerhunter (4) = 7] playing each others songs simultaneously. Judging from the footage early in the tour and from what I saw, by this, the 6th show in the tour, they shifted more towards each band playing their own songs and turned the collaboration into contribution. Each band would play a song or two, then pass off to the next with the other bands coming in mostly only duringt extend guitar-drone-to-a-driving-beat passages. (Check out this awesome collaborative version of Deerhunter's "cryptograms" from earlier in the tour.)
Dan Deacon's shows intimately involve the audience - the chubby, aging and bald guy has a spontaneous charisma that's best explained my moving pictures,
Everything was thrilling to the bone - Deerhunter - "Never Stops"
Here's another review of the show. ZThe next night in Milwaukee, Randy of New Age threw out his shoulder.
// posted by Erik @ 8/08/2009 01:49:00 PM
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