Young shred outfit Polluter was playing when I arrived. Crunchy guitars and manic drumming made for a spastic beat. I congratulated the drummer for not blowing a head gasket with his fierce pace, he was wearing a purple cape which I assumed gave him some kind of drumming super-power.
Boston trio E has been positively reviewed in this blog before. Thalia Zedek on guitar and vocals was in the punk band Come from the 80s and 90s, Jason Sidney Sanford on vocals and homemade guitar, and drummer who played like Kid Millions but looked like an assistant football coach were the trio. Zedek, dressed in black, had the air of a punk godmother who had seen and done much in her decades in the biz. She was the main vocalist, and while the lyrics were difficult to pick up over the din, the songs had a discernible gut-punch feel. My last viewing of E at Bar in New Haven had me attempting to photograph Sanford's "homemade" guitar. He fashioned the axe by welding pieces of small gage wire in the outline of a guitar, with fret board and strings. The poor lighting at Bar and the near invisibility of this instrument made it look like Sanford was playing air guitar. Spaceland proved not much better at getting a snap of this elusive instrument. Chatting with Sanford as he was setting up, I noticed on the inside of his homemade case for his homemade guitar he had his address and the note "this box contains homemade musical instruments and electronic effects". We laughed at the need for the note as a means to suppress any suspecting TSA agent thinking it was a Flying V dirty bomb carrying drone. Sanford's style was jerky movements and monster sound which reminded me of Bowie or Byrne. One song was introduced as "Cannibal Chat Room" which shows you where this trio was coming from.
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