Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Gross Out and About La Knots at VAC
Posted by Josh Gross on Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM
- Josh Gross
- La Knots at The VAC
But no one did. Because in addition to the gleeful sounds of inexperience, La Knots also brought the less gleeful problems. Their songs didn't travel far, sticking to the thick wall of fuzz with a four-on-the-floor foundation and experimenting little with rhythm or the spaces between sounds to give them a unique identity—though one song toward the end changed tempo several times and was easily their best for the effort.
The thing that stuck out the most about La Knots was their lack of stage presence. If you were to close your eyes and just listen, you'd expect to see someone swinging a mic stand around their head when you opened them. You'd expect the bass player to fight another member of the band and for the drummer to potentially OD on stage. But that wasn't the case at all. The bass player stood paralyzed, eyes locked on his fretboard and totally unsure of how to wield the bass strapped round his neck. The singer/guitar player seemed content to substitute the mysterious allure of bangs draping his face in place of stage presence. There was a reason the crowd stayed seated and distant from the stage. When truly rocking out, one must be prepared to do as the rhyme says and it didn't seem like La Knots was.
At least not that night.
That said, as the sound would indicate, the band is young and staring down the barrel of a future. So though they may only be terrorizing neighbors right now instead of bouncers and hotel staff, they're on their way.
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That sounds like your jealous to me and I think that is an unprofessional review. Thinking about our drummer O.D.ing? Thats really lame. Also, sorry but we dont terrorize our neighbors because my studio downtown doesnt have any. Anyways, you should do some research before you go out and write a review that makes you come off as a half ass writer. You made up your mind to soon and ruined it. Catch us at a free house show sometime or some other venue.
Thanks but no thanks,
-Tuck Nelson, La Knots
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This is such a half-ass review. The "in-experienced individuals" your talking about have been part of this community long enough that it proves your own lack of knowledge to think of them in such a way. The guitar player/singer, Tuck Nelson, whose name you didn't take the time to find out has produced amazing recordings for some very experienced musicians for what 3 or 4 years now? Using much older and more challenging equipment then anyone else I know of. Demni and him have produced a lot of music and have been part of many projects. I've seen them perform some of the most energetic dance happy shows to ever occur in Boise. With the kind of quality you put out in your own work you'll never attain the kind of respect they are given. So I recommend for your own ego not to bash on them. The community knows what it loves and its the La knots.
To be fair the writing isn't bad and the contrast between the first two paragraphs and the last two is an interesting journey; the problem with it is that it exists in a fantasy world - which is nice but it doesn't help when your trying to lay out the truth of the situation - which wasn't layed out at all. I think a little more information and little less masturbation would work out. Josh Gross, how many times a day do you masturbate? I'm guessing you jerked it at least 4 or 5 times during the course of that review; probably into a mirror.
Just to fill that out a little bit:
maybe if you weren't spending so much time masturbating you could have spent more time talking to the members of La Knots and asking them questions like, oh I don't know
- How long have you been playing shows in Boise?
- Hey, you two look kind of similar, are you related?
Just little shit like that, that would have completely changed everything you chose to write about; which was just mental jizz that is now probably being sprayed to any ignorant individual all over Boise who opens up your column and actually believes it. All press is good press, but at least take some care into your job. Don't just sit at the bar all night drinking whiskey sours and staring at some woman your never going to sleep with, only to go home alone into your one bedroom apartment jerk off four times and then shit something out on your laptop that gets to be seen by everyone. Your not the king in this situation; Lester Bangs died a long time ago and your not his reincarnate; don't be so full of yourself man - your writing about musicians in Boise -write from that platform, not your high chair that you've perched yourself on.
no one in the retorting scene understands 'apostrophe RE', evidently...
so, other than that: you're boring, soon-to-be-fired-creep-dork-B.O.Weekly-random-staff-writer-guy. the kids haaaaate you now, too. you know NOTHING about music in this town, past or present. NOTHING.
and a word ABOUT the music, too -- everyone can tell; but if they know, they already knew.. things are a'thrivin' in this town, folks. keep your ears up.
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