Good lord, I promised myself I'd never watch these videos because it'd just break my heart, but what on earth was wrong with me that I missed the last Deadly Snakes shows in Toronto last year?
"Gore Veil" at the "last" show (Horseshoe Tavern)
3 songs from the actual last show the next night at the Silver Dollar. Occasional camera pans of audience reveal the presence of beloved friend and one-time community radio conconsirator Bobby Lotz. Hey Bob.
This is probably my greatest musical regret. Not missing Fugazi on their last tour-- I loved that band and saw them on tours for In On The Kill-Taker and Red Medicine, but I've never really regretted missing them that last time. I saw the Deadly Snakes a few times too, but largely when they were still the greatest garage punk band in the world, rather than when they became one of the greatest bands in the world, writing absolutely fresh songs about the ubiquitously immortal themes of fear of death and frenzied joy in life. I must have been out of my mind to miss those shows.
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It ain't the Snakes but keep an eye on Quest for Fire, one of the acts to emerge from the Snakes ashes. www.myspace.com/questforfireband
-Bobby
Yeah, I was just telling a couple of friends from Toronto last night that not going to those Deadly Snakes shows last year was one of my biggest musical regrets, too. Why the fuck didn't I go? I guess having seen them about a half dozen times made me take this band for granted, but the fact was, they were the best Canadian band of the last 10 years, easily.
I saw Quest For Fire a couple of weeks ago in Toronto and wasn't too impressed, but they do have potential. It was sort of like Elevator, but way less exciting.
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