BRAIN: Will we be smashing with bolts of ungodly vision?

[Steve Swann]

For those of you who couldn't be there last November:

Nosferatu live @ Le Royale NYC November 15 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdf05kfauFg

You can hear that the whole crowd was singing along with it... being
there for it was freaking awesome.  The crowd noise at the end of it
is no exaggeration either, everybody went nuts.

Steve

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, gary shindler <bewlay68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Nosferatu," wow! Did BOC even do that live back in the day? That sounds like a hard one to perform. Lucky you.
> Gary
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> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Steve Swann <swann1066 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> From: Steve Swann <swann1066 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: BRAIN: Will we be smashing with bolts of ungodly vision?
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 10:08 AM
>
> Man, I couldn't even keep track of how many bands and musicians took
> the stage last night???  Al, can you post the setlist and maybe the
> list of bands?  I couldn't even begin to remember it all.
>
> The Bouchard brothers were on stage all night, anchoring every one of
> the bands.  Joe did probably 80% of the singing, the biggest
> exceptions being that Al sang his songs (Cities, D&S, etc), Les Vegas
> sang the Underbelly set, and Dennis fronted for a couple.
>
> I didn't know Les Vegas before this gig, but he immediately got me on
> his side by saying, "I just recently was introduced to this song by
> Joe, but now it's like my favorite song ever..."  He was talking about
> Astronomy (my favorite song ever) so that was a pretty cheap way to
> recruit me as a fan.  ;-)  He's a great singer and frontman, too - he
> took a song that neither I, nor I bet half the people present last
> night, had ever heard before (Dark Age) and *brought down the fucking
> house with it*.  To make a crowd of hardcore old school fans who came
> to hear their favorite classics go berserk over a song they've never
> heard before is an accomplishment, lemme tellya...
>
> There were a huge number of musicians present:
> On drums:
> Al - the one and only
> On bass:
> Dennis Dunaway, man-o-man does that guy rock out on bass.  (In an
> aside where I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not, Joe credited
> Dennis teaching him how to play bass, and after that maybe I was just
> imagining the similarities in their styles... ;-)
> David Hirschberg, who I was happy to see back on stage - I haven't
> seen him since the last (hopefully not final??) Brain Surgeons show
> Andy Hilfiger, who onstage looked eerily like his late and
> much-lamented brother Billy - and who also gets huge credit as the
> organizer of the event
> On guitar:
> Joe, who started out with a 12-string acoustic and I guess must have
> seen worried faces in the crowd or something, because he paused
> between songs to promise "Don't worry, we'll be rocking
> tonight"  ;-)
> and YES THEY DID
> ??? Romero, I didn't catch his first name, a young fella I didn't
> recognize.  Knows his BOC licks, though.
> Les Vegas, on electric-acoustic while singing
> Andy Hilfiger, who jumped on stage with a guitar for like one song -
> if *I* had organized an event like that, I'D DO IT TOO  ;-)
> I missed the name of the guy who was playing with Joe during the
> electric-acoustic set at the beginning, for which I apologize, and I
> think I missed at least one other guitar player along the way as well,
> at one point there were like 5 or 6 people on stage and I didn't
> recognize all of them.
>
> Highlight of the evening for me:
> They played Nosferatu!!!  If I had thought to send in a request
> beforehand, that would have been it it.
>
> They did tons of old classics from BOC, Soft White Underbelly,
> X-Brothers, various old and new Bouchard solo and collaborative
> projects, and some of Dennis' material from his Alice Cooper days.  It
> was great, with one of the most wild, amped-up crowds I've ever been
> in.  Some of them had come across the country for this and the BOC fan
> show tonight, and everybody was making the most of it.  I hope the
> bands had as much fun as we all did - thanks to all the musicians for
> putting on such a great, fan-oriented show, and to Andy Hilfiger again
> for making it happen.  You guys were all great.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Albert Bouchard <albert at cellsum.com>
> wrote:
>> Things are getting better already. Joe and I are doing a Blue
>> Coupe/Underbelly plus guests show in NYC at Le Royale on Saturday Nov 15th
>> (the day before the 2OC "fans only" show in Hoboken). A couple
> rare gems
>> will be guaranteed.
>> Al
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:02 AM, blackblade wrote:
>>
>>> "Saving my patience 'till the fourth of November. I'll
> give you
>>> a present you will always remember..."
>>>
>>> Here's to the
>>> next U.S. president helping us avoid "destruction, oblivion,
>>> holocaust."
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
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