Rich Seymour's stochastic statements.

This was a great show. Deerhoof lit up the stage as a three piece. I didn’t know the troubadour was sort of a medium sized club, but it was perfect and nicely intimate. Ceramic Dog (sold as a sort of Marc Ribot project) was killer. I had seen Marc Ribot do random things around NYC, but this was cohesive rock/jazz/punk/techno everything madness. I say techno or disco cause there was definitely a drum machine bit (and a filter on the snare or something?) where they were all singing “party… on the dance floor” It was great. Marc Ribot was playing a Harmony Stratotone like the gold one in the middle of the page. I wish I had been closer during their set, because he just tore it up with that thing. His use of effects was seamless.

During the Deerhoof set there was a mishap when one of the guitar pedals died (I think it was just a boost pedal, some boutique brand) and the guitarist (whose name I don’t have on me at the moment) had to scramble. It was a great show. I was glad to be much closer to the stage for them, cause you can really see how they make a huge joyful noise out of seemingly nothing.