Spacerock article

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Steve wrote:

> Am I the only one on the list who saw Kyuss live?  It was kind of an 
> accident - a friend and I went to see L7, and Kyuss opened for them. 
> They were touring their new "Blues for the Red Sun" album, and had some 
> of those little carboard promotional cards for it.  I almost tossed mine 
> out cause I had never heard of Kyuss (and didn't even get the dweeby D&D 
> reference, amazingly enough).  :)

 	You may be the only one *left*; I heard Tim Fulcher tell of seeing 
them in the Garaga in Highbury once. He claimed the floor shook. But your 
report has me wondering, what on earth was L7's connection to that 
particular crowd? Kathryn, my ex, was (is) a big L7 fan, and once when she 
saw them a band of unknowns called Wool were supporting. Now pretty much 
everyone in Kyus had been in a band with someone from Wool at some point 
in their history and several have gone on to do so again (Wool's vocalist 
was Pete Stahl of Goatsnake and Orquestra del Desierto). All the same 
bunch of people who fuelled early QotSA, the Desert Sessions and Brant 
Bjork's various solo projects. How did L7 fall in with them? I wonder if 
the story's fit to be told...

 	<snip>

> Tried to buy their albums right after, but this was years before the Web 
> and couldn't find anything in my glorious home town of Buffalo. 
> Finally found Blues for the Red Sun at (are ready for this?) in a Radio 
> Shack on the NC outer banks that had about 50 CDs for sale in a bin, one 
> of which was an album that I had sought unsuccessfully in some of the 
> largest record stores in the world...  ;-)

 	The first time I saw a Kyuss album I bought it--that Viking 
drug lord music pusher had done his work well--and the guy at the counter 
looked at me, looked at me again and said, "Is this for you?" Something of 
a proud moment for me :-)

> And then of course not long after that I found Welcome to Sky Valley, 
> which might possibly be my favorite album ever...

 	I was trying to think how I'd answer if someone asked me what the 
best album I owned was, and that one definitely came to mind. But so do 
about forty others... Yours,
 			     Jon

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       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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