Memphis

[rutabowa]

also we went to hang out at this guy Johnny Lowebow's shop, he makes cigarbox guitars and puts on shows to demonstrate them in his shop if you ask him to, the shop is also full of old records, signed Bukowski editions and Orange amplifiers. i ended up talking to him throughout the rest of the weekend he gave me a lot of good advice. http://www.geocities.com/lowebow/

 

[rutabowa]

ohhh and this is King Louie kicking off the whole weekend, i remember alll this:

 

[Sunspots]

this was one of my favourite bands of the weekend:

Sounds like a lot of these bands; drenched in lovely reverb. The fella with the face mask is doing his own thing though.

this is Jay Reatard pissing on stage during his gig, wow he was a total wanker all weekend and the band sounded shit.

Rather living up to his name there.

these guys were AWSOME Davila 666 a puertorican garage band.

I've heard of them somewhere before, ages ago, but I can't remember where.

Johnny Lowebow's shop... http://www.geocities.com/lowebow/

He's either got some mysterious swamp tunings, or it's just really out of tune; I can't quite decide. I suppose, to be fair though, he's drumming at the same time. Anyway, homemade guitars.

ohhh and this is King Louie kicking off the whole weekend, i remember alll this:

Tbh, on the strength of that clip, I think I'd rather forget that one.

All in all, it sounds like a good time; wish I could've been there. Thanks for the front line reporting!

 

[rutabowa]

Tbh, on the strength of that clip, I think I'd rather forget that one.

ha yeah that beginning was pretty bad. he got it together more later. his band the Loose Diamonds were very good tho, like southern boogie. one thing i noticed, virtually every band that played had only one member who could tune a guitar and all the other people would have to hand their instruments to them (or actually mostly not bother doing that).

 

[JWH]

Sounds like you had a really time.