Jandek
If you don't know already, Jandek makes some crazy dissonant outsider music that touches on freak folk and the general avant garde music. He's released albums since the late 70s under his Corwood label, so nobody really knew his true identity for quite a while. Well, he broke his elusive stint in the early 2000s to play his first show, and one of the attempts to reveal Jandek for his true self ended up to be true. Who is Jandek? Well his birth certificate says Sterling Richard Smith.
Knowing his true identity honestly does nothing for me, because he's just another standard guy, wouldn't be able to pick him out from a crowd. However, if you put his music against others it would be a bold faced lie if you said he sounds like the others. This is the attitude that he brought to the show: extremely dissonant, very strange, supremely disoriented music.
I've been a Janny-D fan for years long, and since he's only been doing shows for about a decade I recognize how rare it is to see him. He's had quite the influence on my playing, something that I actually took real note of after seeing him tbh. Our mind went to the same place at a lot of points when I was listening to him jam out. Now I had listened to him a lot when I redeveloped my style (also known as the period after I discovered jazz and avant-garde music). So I would never miss a minute of a live performance, right?
Well as much as overwhelming will and praying to a god you're skeptical of existing, we ended up around 30 minutes late of the performance, and they started right on time instead of being douchebags and starting a half hour late
. This is the one time I've been sad that the performers I'm about to see aren't dicks.
Jandek's group consisted of three women (gee, I wonder how they got the job, I noticed they were rather cute) and ole Jan-Dee. There was one lady who played violin in a wasted John Cale-esque way that was very pleasing, one who acted like she was on ecstasy, dry humped Jandek (but who wouldn't, tbh), and played guitar, and another that was on the bass for the whole time I was there who rightly kicked the asses of many. Jandek started off on bass, then moved to drums, then on to guitar. He should really stick with the guitar because he was incredible at raping that Stratocaster and I was loving every minute of it. When he was on the drums, the chick that was clearly on a lot of drugs (I mean they all obviously were, but she was blasted and we and she and they and them knew it) took up the guitar.
The music that the group played was fantastic. I would have liked to be more jacked up because my hobby is being the most blasted guy in the crowd, but this was still quite the experience sober. I am kicking myself for missing the first part of the show, if it was only half as great as the part that I saw, it probably would have been one of the better shows of my life. But since I haven't been to many shows and the shows I have been to were supremely epic, Imma give this one a 8/10 and say it was only the second worst concert I've been to. Even though I missed a great part of the show and the guitarist girl could have stepped it up, I still thought it was fantastic though!