King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

I hope you enjoyed the show Ken. What a great band. Infest the rats nest is my favorite album by them. They will be in atlanta at the end of the month. 

>>>spacey, loose jams they are known for

Idk, I'd say they're just as known for tight, slightly harder edge, progressive psychedelia and even all kinds of weird random, almost even rootsy stuff.

they're kinda all over all the place, almost even to the point of too many cooks in that kitchen for my taste at times.

With the exception of a track here or there, I still haven't been able to get really into them, but the reviews of their live shows sure tend to b overwhelming positive.

In fact the hype surrounding them seems to only get bigger and I question whether it's truly that deserved as they just seem like one notable part of the the flourishing Aussie neo-psych scene, but I haven't checked out any of those other bands live either so i guess that's mostly conjecture on my part.

glad u went and had a good time, heard the Greek was excellent, just like most everyone usually says about them, lol, maybe one day I will too...

They've been on my list for a while.   Probably time to go check them out.  

Fun band.

Thought we had tix for 11/2 Red Rocks. Turns out they were for the 10/10 show. Who does that?

These tix were rescheduled 5 times since original purchase in 2019.

Saturday in Philly is Sold Out . Tix on secondary market are a bit high.

Have to take a second look. I always thought they were a joke and blew chunks.

They are playing tomorrow night@ Forest Hills stadium here in ol Queens. Any zoners planning on attending? I may go. Hit me up

I like this song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvegxkUYguQ

Didn't they used to have two drummers?

I've missed on seeing them a couple of times, but am interested. They're definitely not the type of group that can be "gotten" from video or audio clips, but they're clearly a rock 'n roll band.

And there's never anything completely wrong with that.

Same could be said about The Mars Volta, a raging band that I love from the times I've seen them live but can't handle on tape. I'm disappointed I had to miss them at the Warfield this week. Hopefully they'll come back around.

I wonder if the brother of the great old-time zoner Wino is still the bass player in Volta?

I miss Wino.

Anyway, didn't King Gizzard used to have two drummers, or am I thinking of someone else?

I like two drummers in a band.

One of my friends just bailed on the King Gizzard show on Wednesday in Atlanta. He asked me to sell his ticket. Any Atlanta heads interested? Face.

Amazing video, but the visuals outdo the audio IMO

https://youtu.be/Njk2YAgNMnE

Agreed, zooey

Here is a link to the archive for the 10-26-22 Atlanta show. This was my first time at this venue, it is somewhat new in the last 2 years. Really nice venue that holds around 2000. The parking was a joke. I ended up parking a couple blocks away and walking. Great show, it was the singers birthday so they were in party mode. This was the 2nd time I have seen them live and they did not disappoint. 

https://archive.org/details/kglw2022-10-26.vwmule/kglw2022-10-26.vwmule....

the Eastern is a pretty great venue.  

JRAD's doing 3 nights there in feb

Thanks for the heads up! I just picked up 2 for Friday. 

Caught the Philly and Baltimore shows. Gotta love this band.
Decades of musical influences flow from their songbook. 

Heard that they may not be back in the US until 2027

Go to the show.

maybe king gizzard could hump the corpse of the lizard wizard in order to provide a more seamless transition for us to become big lizard wizard fans, im sure that would make all of the new zoner fans a bit more comfortable at their shows

makes me with gittmo were here

I agree. This band is the shit. I saw the rock show in Queens 2 weeks ago and I just arrived in Denver today for their Field of Vision festival in Buena Vista this weekend. 3, 3 hour shows this weekend. I can't get enough. This will be my 10th-12th Gizz show since 2022. 

I saw the ct show, was really good 

they have an interesting taping/bootleg policy...

https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/bootlegger

My time in the Gizz-verse has ended for now. I am back at work. What a fun weekend. 9 hours of the Gizz! they announced on Sunday that they have signed a multi year deal there and will be doing it again next summer.  I am bringing a bicycle next year, that is a large property and bike friendly. Here are a few pics I wanted to share. One of my favorite moments was when Jello Biafra came out and the Gizz and played Police Truck by the Dead Kennedy's. 

Wow Jello Gizzard the collab I'd never have expected!

Here is the Police Truck video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16m1p9HyMhA

Jello's no corpse humper.  He left the Dead Kennedys in 1986 and never went back.

HaJeiio on nostalgia and reunions from a 2012 interview with the Tampa Bay Times:

We haven't talked in a dozen years. In their hearts they've become Republicans and I just wouldn't do something like that unless we can bring back the real thing. In a way getting me back into the band would be their worst nightmare, like make them rehearse. When people tell me that I owe it to the fans to regurgitate nothing but old music with the people I used to play with, that's totally the opposite of what punk and Dead Kennedys means to me. The true spirit of the whole thing is to keep going, keep moving and make more new stuff. Nobody was more cynical than the original punks about nostalgia and retro because of all the rage on TV and people started to get nostalgic in goofy ass ways for the sixties and they were thinking, "Yeah, that will never happen to us." That's not what I'm here for, sorry. It's not as if the people who come to the Guantanamo School of Medicine shows wanting nothing but old Dead Kennedys songs don't leave with a smile on their face once they've heard the new songs. It's not like I've forgot how to write this shit.[42]

Seeing the DK s at the 1984 Rock against Reagan show next to the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in D.C. was an eye-opener.

>>Seeing the DK s at the 1984 Rock against Reagan show next to the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in D.C. was an eye-opener.

That's awesome. I started to see punk in 86 but never got to see the Dead Kennedy's. I have seen Jello in a spoken word format a couple times. This was a real treat. We got to the festival early Thursday and heard the sound check of the song.  The campground was full of punk rock that night because of the soundcheck. It was fun.

I think I heard that there were about 50 countries represented over the weekend for the festival.  If you are on the fence you should check them out. They have a massive catalog that is fairly diverse in sound.  

Here are the 3 nights. 

Friday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Qc58w7tT0

Saturday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqL8U3-rZlA

Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFDjey3Adg 

Been trying to dig them for some time but with their volume of output it's hard to keep up. Your posts got me inspired to dig deeper though, so I've been immersed for a couple of days. Pretty high energy, honestly they could learn about set breaks, but holy shit what a fantastic band. Will definitely figure out how to see them stateside soon. Maybe next year in CO? Their live shows online are just outta this world and I am wanting more. And their bootleg policy? They get it. These guys are the future of what us folks really value in the musical landscape.

i'm kinda in E's camp and also have no bandwith for all that anymore

would see them cheap/free and local, guess philly would've been the time lol