Thu, Oct 22
Black Flag
Four bars drawn by Raymond Pettibon have been tattooed on more forearms than most national flags, and everybody who has one can tell you exactly where they were the first time the second side of that record made sense. Hermosa Beach built this. The band got run out of its own county by police who treated a gig like a riot in progress, which is a large part of why the songs still sound like somebody arguing with a wall. Whatever you think about which lineup counts, the material does not care — played loud in a room this size it is still the most efficient forty minutes in American music. Ventura is the right kind of room for it: a flat floor, a low stage, no seats to defend. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Half the people here saw them the first time and the other half were not born, and the interesting part of the night is watching those two groups recognize each other.
Four bars drawn by Raymond Pettibon have been tattooed on more forearms than most national flags, and everybody who has one can tell you exactly where they were the first time the second side of that record made sense. Hermosa Beach built this. The band got run out of its own county by police who treated a gig like a riot in progress, which is a large part of why the songs still sound like somebody arguing with a wall. Whatever you think about which lineup counts, the material does not care — played loud in a room this size it is still the most efficient forty minutes in American music. Ventura is the right kind of room for it: a flat floor, a low stage, no seats to defend. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Half the people here saw them the first time and the other half were not born, and the interesting part of the night is watching those two groups recognize each other.
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Four bars drawn by Raymond Pettibon have been tattooed on more forearms than most national flags, and everybody who has one can tell you exactly where they were the first time the second side of that record made sense. Hermosa Beach built this. The band got run out of its own county by police who treated a gig like a riot in progress, which is a large part of why the songs still sound like somebody arguing with a wall. Whatever you think about which lineup counts, the material does not care — played loud in a room this size it is still the most efficient forty minutes in American music. Ventura is the right kind of room for it: a flat floor, a low stage, no seats to defend. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Half the people here saw them the first time and the other half were not born, and the interesting part of the night is watching those two groups recognize each other.
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