Deerhoof turned out to be WAY experimental. The couple songs I know were
the only ones I liked of their set (they seem to be the only ones that have
vocals and are commercially approachable, too), and we ended up leaving
early. I was impressed by how they made a couple guitars, a bass and a
minimalistic drum kit sound experimental, without synthsizers or other
miscellaneous instruments.
Benjy Ferree was good enough, but seemed like
a one-trick pony. All his songs sounded the same. He looked like a
middle-aged nerd, and for a while, he and I suppose his wife invited 2 kids
to play on stage with them. The kids did well. I learned later that Benjy is
local, and it seems the kids are not his own. He used the star-treck sounding
instrument (ther-something), which I'd never seen live before.
The
Dees and E.D. Sedgwick weren't great, but Eric and I both thought there
was something interesting about them. I'm going to listen to them again and
see if they are better recorded. The are very creative in their lyrics. There
was a song about a serial killer that they should submit to Dexter. I liked
the vocal contrast. Sortof like the guy from the B-52s and a soulful black
woman as backup.
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