Noot d' Noot Blogosphere

Hit the Floor, Dusk til Dawn

2011-11-12T17:03:00.003-05:00

Stoked to be playin' with The Breakestra......This very eve!

Noot turns 100

2011-10-14T12:07:00.000-04:00

Noot turns 100 tonight! Read all about it.

The Triangle

2011-10-06T22:11:00.002-04:00

Noot performs twice in the Triangle this weekend. 10 PM in the Dance Tent at Shakori Hills, and Saturday Nite at The Casbah. Join US

Gringos

2011-09-16T10:07:00.000-04:00

3 Noots, a Tapeworm, and a Gringo. 9PM

Yardigans

2011-09-09T22:06:00.002-04:00

More Elevate Schwagg!

Elevate

2011-09-06T21:55:00.000-04:00

Noot performed at the gates of Underground Atlanta, on August 26th for Elevate . Our man Shyne at Shyne Photos was there to document it all.

Leb Lazer

2011-09-02T22:02:00.000-04:00

Way back in 2008, we did a cover of our boy Leb Laze's remix project. It has been unleashed.

Live at The EARL

2011-07-12T17:34:00.003-04:00

We got a new 7" Live at The EARL available from The EARL.

Rinse

2011-06-01T11:40:00.000-04:00

Tonite. Unicron.

A Visual Tour Through the Mind of a Master

2011-05-22T01:12:00.006-04:00

Art and Commerce Collide!!! Lee Perry can be my spokesman anyday!!!

Florida Water

2011-05-19T23:07:00.002-04:00

Dr. Kinje and friends, this Saturday Nite at 529!!!

Secret Stages

2011-05-09T23:49:00.003-04:00

Noot is pleased to make our first trip to the Magic City, home of mentor, Sun Ra. We will be perfoming at the Secret Stages. Join us.

VSOP

2011-05-04T20:07:00.002-04:00

Noot d' noot stays fly with the help of our clothier, The Lady Owl. Head over to her shop for the finest in vintage threads. Her nimble fingers run through the racks of timeless styles like no other's, and she's sure to have you looking like the cat's meow before your next Summertime soiree. Many pieces from The Lady Owl Collection have appeared on our stage, hung around the necks and draped over the shoulders of the band, so you just might be able to harness a little power of Noot d' noot with your purchase. Cheers!

From The Vaults of the Solotionist

2011-04-27T16:26:00.002-04:00

This Friday at The EARL, Mathis Hunter and The Rinse play w/ Adron. Back in 2008, while Noot was working on Cash For Gold, these songs were recorded for the Solutionist label, which closed its doors before a 45 could be pressed. These tunes sat in the hard drive, until now.

Time Release

2011-04-24T23:13:00.003-04:00

The New Mixtape is RIGHT H E R E. Time Release, better put it in your player. Tell all your friends, Girl. F R E E.

Know That Feelin'

2011-04-11T16:42:00.002-04:00

Release

2011-04-11T15:04:00.004-04:00

We will release "Time Release" Mixtape the weekend of April 22/23rd with two performances. Career spanning set lists are in order for this celebration.

The Rinse

2011-03-28T13:31:00.003-04:00

This Saturday at the Highland Inn, Newmerica premiers video for "Know That Feelin,'" from both "From Ever Since" and the upcoming "Time Release" Mixtape. Mathis Hunter debuts new band "The Rinse," which looks a lot like Good Friday Experiment Mach 3 and features The Living Room Rhythm Section. Bean and Mandy have a wedding reception. Dookie and Gnosis play records.

Mixtape

2011-03-15T02:39:00.004-04:00

We've been laying low, crushing up that time release, preparing for the summertime. Won't be long.

IV

2011-03-10T13:37:00.000-05:00

Four years ago this day, we played our first show at the Beep Beep Gallery. Here are some memories from along the way.

Dynamite

2011-02-09T14:53:00.004-05:00

Check out the digital reissue of our first single: Jiggle City. Originally released on Pittsburgh's finest imprint-Solutionist Records, and now out of print. We'll do it with soul at the Star Bar Saturday nite w/ Charles Walker and The Dynamites.

Take A Ride

2011-01-12T02:01:00.007-05:00

Our improv set from 1/1/11 can now be captured off our bandcamp website. Universities, Sisyphyus, and Syphocolous all take a ride on a horse, take a ride on a unicorn, and believe this musical experience is an interview with Barbara Walters.

Pool Party Taco Night

2011-01-10T15:19:00.002-05:00

We'll be at The 'Squerade this Friday with Ruby Velle, A Fight to the Death, and some hot DJ's.

2011 Shift

2011-01-10T15:17:00.003-05:00

Dr. Kinje exhibits his alter ego, "Ben Davis." How high can you count?

Shakori Hills

2011-01-03T16:35:00.005-05:00

2011

2010-12-30T02:20:00.002-05:00

Tying Up Loose Ends

2010-12-30T02:13:00.003-05:00

Shakedown Records makes Creative Loafings's 2010 Best of List with "Soft Opening."

What Even Is That?

2010-12-30T02:00:00.003-05:00

Our buddy, Marcus Lowe, has a new solo effort streaming from the Soundcloud, that sounds real good.

Twenty-'lleben

2010-12-15T21:30:00.003-05:00

Noot will be bringing in the Year at the Earl with friends Gentleman Jesse and his Men and Gringo Star. Tickets can be purchased H E R E. Noot will be opening for Gentleman Jesse and his Men and Gringo Star on Sat January 1. Tickets can be purchased H E R E. Noot will play the hits Friday and wing it on Saturday.

Gringo Star "All Y'all" from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.

Current Lineup

2010-12-09T21:49:00.000-05:00

Look like this.

Feelin'

2010-12-07T00:06:00.007-05:00

Ian Cone and his Newmerica cronies shot what is to be the video for "Know That Feelin'" from our latest, "From Ever Since." Look for a digital EP to drop with this video sometime early in 2011.

This Is Halloween

2010-11-22T23:31:00.007-05:00

Coupla photos from our recent Halloween performance shot by Just Beautiful Electric.

Blown

2010-11-04T19:52:00.003-04:00

We played a show last year with Diplo at the Whirly Ball. These days, he's got a dubstep comp out called "Blow Your Head." That's cool, Noot d' noot likes to see the whole ball of wax get straddled.

2010-11-03T11:51:00.001-04:00

~~The Limited Edition 6 piece Noot d' Noot will be performing next to last at the Next to Last Festival in Athens this Friday the 29th, just be for Edan. ESG will be there Saturday!!~~

Next To Last

2010-10-26T11:07:00.005-04:00

The Limited Edition 6 piece Noot d' Noot will be performing next to last at the Next to Last Festival in Athens this Friday the 29th, just be for Edan. ESG will be there Saturday!!

This Is It

2010-10-26T00:01:00.002-04:00

Party time. After party at El Myr.

Squanto and Friends

2010-10-25T23:48:00.002-04:00

Squanto started a new site that will make you puke jujy fruits. Dig it.

Cool Runner

2010-10-25T23:36:00.001-04:00

Jah Bless Gregory.

A Word From The Drizzler

2010-10-20T20:09:00.002-04:00

From Andre with love. Go read the Book Of Colors.

Squanto gone Digi

2010-10-18T15:33:00.002-04:00

R.I.P. General Johson

2010-10-16T12:11:00.001-04:00

Just got the news from Youngblood, Fly on General Johnson.

Raydio

2010-10-16T03:14:00.003-04:00

Maybe the most out jazz I've ever played when I rocked this joint today with a piano player and about fifteen 6th-8th graders singing. I can't shake it loose. Killer bass line. You can change a dollar bill, but you can't change how I feel.

An Open Letter to Bodymore, Murdaland

2010-10-07T12:21:00.003-04:00

Dear Hamsterdam,

Can you please stop jacking our "From Ever Since" CDR's from Morphius Manufacturing's doorstep. I mean what the fuck are you gonna do with 600 CDR's? Now we gotta go outta town with no copies of our new album. I'll give you a hundred bucks if you'll spare Jah Scorpion from having to burn 300 more copies. GODDAMN.

Noot in NC

2010-10-05T01:38:00.004-04:00

This weekend we'll be bringing the funk up the Blue Ridge Pkwy, with a stopover in Asheville at The Emerald Lounge on Friday Nite Oct 8th w/ Josh Blake's Jukebox, and Saturday Nite Oct 9th at Shakori Hills. ¡Tu Sabes!

My Buddy

2010-09-30T10:50:00.001-04:00

Buddy Rich was born on this day in 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. To celebrate the man I have attached one of the craziest big band numbers you have ever heard and some of his wonderful words of wisdom. Enjoy.

Pilgrimage to High Pass Junction

2010-09-29T08:28:00.000-04:00

Every few months, Belmont "Bananas" Foster and his right hand man Ake throw parties out in the desert outside San Diego under the moniker Borrego Mi Diego. This time it was held on the Mexican border at a place called High Pass Junction, and your favorite tamborine/theremin player Jah Scorpion was able to fly out for the festivities. It is important to note the man in the center of the picture above is T-Bone, the caretaker of the property and a glorious man of wisdom. Check out some of his musings below:

T-Bone's House - and his flags - and his guns (off camera).
Next to the property was an abandoned Zendik squat, Church, VA Hall and sometimes Border Patrol storage facility. I was confronted several times by several of our green friends cruising around on four-wheelers, but never had any trouble.

There is definitely a "Hills Have Eyes" vibe about the place.

On the day of festivities, a lamb was roasted for shawarma.

The general store sold coolers full of Jagermeister, which for some reason they called Jagermeifter. That $119.99 deal looks good to me.

Stuart owned the property, and had many a story to tell.

Some local kids played their first show, singing songs about loving their dog and hating everyone else. Rember those times?The bands played on a rock outcropping, which gave it a heavy sound that carried for miles.
Good times at High Pass Junction.
We even drained the pool for some additional entertainment.
And the lamb was ravaged.

As the sun went down, the party intensified.

The going got weird, but never weird enough.

Thanks Bananas and Ake for their hospitality, and we hope to get out there (or get you out here) very soon.

Ghost Notes

2010-09-23T23:26:00.000-04:00

That Works!

Shariiff do like it?

2010-09-23T23:20:00.001-04:00

Not sure what it all means, but glad to receive it none the less! Thanks CLA-Town!

Echo Party

2010-09-02T14:23:00.002-04:00

And by the way, with the use of the 529 Sound System, this shit is gonna melt minds and hips!

Edan The Dee Jay

2010-09-02T14:12:00.003-04:00

Next public appearance will be Nite 1 of Edan's 2 Nite stand at 529. A screening of Edan's new movie/album "Echo Party" will be followed by a Noot live experience and then transform into a Dee Jay Set by Edan himself. Dig it.

Days of Fruture Passed

2010-08-29T21:41:00.003-04:00

Was checking out Burnes' dismantled P-90's and bric-a-brac when I stumbled across this shoe-boxed memory of the Good Doctor and David Daniell at 255 Trinity. Its almost like they've been doing this From Ever Since. Credit the photo to Burnes'es Mom.

Fastidious Olive Snatchers

2010-08-26T16:40:00.006-04:00

Its that time of the month again. Time indeed for a Noot d' Noot DJ set at the illustrious Sauced. Good tunes to compliment proper libations. 10pm Fri Nite. 753 Edgewood.

A Day in the Life

2010-08-24T00:12:00.002-04:00

Stopped by to pay this guy a visit along El Camino Real in Coffeeville, Swalabama. Seen?

Yin and Yang

2010-08-16T23:35:00.004-04:00

And then there were 8. Come check us out w/ AmDex and Clandestined, and The Ruination. 18 and up, $8, and all brought to you by Speakeasy. We'll throw some free cuts on the Bandcamp sometime this week.

Stella B's

2010-08-16T23:29:00.003-04:00

Farmer Cunningham, how does your garden grow? Check him out H E R E. Truly livin' the life.

Flannery O'Connor or Jimmy Carter?

2010-08-16T23:21:00.002-04:00

Just stumbled across this decidedly Southern review of Soft Opening. Hope to get a bandcamp up for it soon enough, but it still plays on myspace for now.

Lake Monster

2010-08-10T23:55:00.004-04:00

Sent a postcard. Apparently, he and fam are doing fine and grooving to the Soft Opening. He also mentioned the new Noot d' Noot Band Camp Site is a great new way to listen to Noot d' Noot online.

L'Été

2010-08-05T09:48:00.003-04:00

Dookie Platter's Okra & Tomatoes

This summertime dish is best served with a late-night dinner, when you can let the kitchen get good and hot.

Ingredients:

Olive oil (lotta folks use bacon drippings, lotta folks might not eat that way)
1 medium onion
6-8 tomatoes
8-10 large okras, sliced up
Some salt
Black and Red pepper
'Bout half a fresh jalapeño or cayenne pepper, seeds and veins removed, minced
Pinch of brown sugar (you could use white if you wanted)
2 cups cooked rice

Start by boiling some water. Drop the tomatoes in the boiling water. Once the skin starts to fall off, scoop the 'maters out. Cut off the tops and peel the rest of the skin off.

Next, put your oil or grease into a well-seasoned cast iron skillet. You can borrow one of mine if you ain't got one. Peel and dice up your onion while that grease gets hot, and throw it in the skillet when you're finished.

Let that onion sweat in the grease, and then throw in your tomatoes. Put as much salt as you like on top and mash up the tomatoes in the skillet. Add the jalapeño now, too. Drop the okra slices in, and top that with about a teaspoon each of black and red pepper. Maybe more, maybe less, depending how you feel. Pinch in that sugar, but don't go crazy with it.

Now mix that whole thing up and make sure it's stewin' good at a medium heat. Cover it up for a while, wait 'til everything's good and soft, and don't let it dry up. Pour in a little bit of tomato juice in case of emergency.

After a while, lay some rice on each plate and scoop some of this here okra and tomatoes on top. Stick a wedge of cornbread right next to that, so it soaks up some of that juice. Serves 2-4.

Auf Wiederdiva

2010-08-01T22:48:00.004-04:00

We will surely miss the Circuit Diva, but we wish her well on her future endeavors. Blessings.

Scribner's

2010-08-01T22:44:00.003-04:00

Did a recent Creative Loafing Air Loaf in regards to the writing and recording of From Ever Since.

Isotope Teleportation and Transmolecularization

2010-07-23T12:18:00.003-04:00

Know we've posted this before, but it documents one of the most important visits to Earth from all time. There really is no better way to prepare yourself From Ever Since.

Voice of Saturn

2010-07-23T12:13:00.001-04:00

Baron Saturday is headed to NYC so he can make more of these. You can wish him well Tonite.

Namesake

2010-07-22T19:25:00.000-04:00

Its the Feel. What is is What is.

A Little Goes A Long Way

2010-07-22T19:20:00.006-04:00

Just a comb in the grease

will make the do stay tight

a little bread and water

you won't get hungry til night

it's supposed to take two

and shawty doing it with one

I put holes in your armor

and I ain't got a gun

Hey Hey a little goes a long way

Need more than a little

but not too much

pushed to excess

but not feelin' right in my gut

did more with what they had

old hits still ringing true

it worked for them

and it can sure work for you, tell it to me now

Hey Hey a little goes a long way

You can find me on the up

ain't never coming down

you can pat me on the back

can't break my crown

late to bed late to rise

don't need another try

little girl in the stockings

gonna make you howl and cry wonder why say

Hey Hey a little goes a long way

Machete

2010-07-22T18:35:00.003-04:00

For lyrics and info, please refer to the Artist's Website.

The Traveller

2010-07-22T18:25:00.007-04:00

Well, I been down and I been up

where I'm going now that's the question

Well, I been down but I'm not playing around

I got some places I gotta be, I got somewhere I gotta see

You can call me a Traveller

Chug-a-lug

I come from a place down south

and I'm constantly trying to get out

I seen so many things that looks allright

and I'm counting stars each and every night

You can call me a Traveller

Chug-a-lug

Well I don't know where I'm gonna end up

and I'm not saying it matters much

I got to be free, free to be me

I know its slow, on the chug-a-lug here I go

You can call me a Traveller

Chug-a-lug

The Tribe's Hatchet

2010-07-22T18:17:00.005-04:00

Snakeskin space boots, the hen is home to roost

the silver lining in the jump suit, new recruit

get caught, bantu knot it don't cost a lot

the only chloroform that's store bought, sure shot

real good time

in your prime

the last child

stay awhile

black and mild

He was 33, think they called him B

keep me pressing repeat

never let me sleep, cologne on the sleeve

sure was a sight to see

I got a beat, a feat I gotta reach

never take a back seat

he worked it out made me scream and shout

he made me E Ahh E

I'm feelin' grateful

so I share my love with you

Super Double Buzz

2010-07-22T18:08:00.003-04:00

Super Double Buzz keep your heart off the dollar

he ain't got a leash but you know he got a collar

candy paint full of stank make me wanna holler

if it ain't about the love, don't even bother

If you've got a problem first look inside to solve 'em

If you've got a problem don't expect for me to solve 'em

If you've got a problem first look inside to solve 'em

If you've got a problem don't expect for me to solve 'em

Super Double Buzz keep your heart off the dollar

he ain't got a leash but you know he got a collar

If we all work together we can come up out of squalor

If it ain't about the love, don't even bother

If you've got a problem first look inside to solve 'em

If you've got a problem don't expect for me to solve 'em

If you've got a problem first look inside to solve 'em

If you've got a problem don't expect for me to solve 'em

And the water keep runnin' runnin' runnin' runnin'

and the water don't stop

Know That Feelin'

2010-07-22T17:46:00.004-04:00

Know that feelin' when you're on that high

When creativity gets the best of you

and you think and you work and create

the sublime and then you show and prove

and you take that flight, universal sight

and you work and you work and you work

til its right, it feels good

you know it feels good

exactly how it should

Know that feelin' when you're on that high

My skin is creepy crawly

my heart can't stand still

my feet got a mind of their own

I just gotta keep it real

I got a feelin' that I can shake

I got a feelin' that won't be moved

Know that feelin'

when you're on that high

everything just shines

do you draw the line

when its all the time

need a reason why

but it passed you by

if you look to the sky

take wing and fly

You know it feels good

exactly how it should

I got a feelin' that I can't shake

I got a feelin' that won't be moved

Jack Move

2010-07-22T17:38:00.006-04:00

Times are hard and jobs are few

people round here are ruff and rude

doesn't matter if you're broke or paid

when man comes around here you're gonna pay

he'll pull a

Jack move in a caper

Things gettin' shady, I'll see you later

Oooooh they want your money and your culture too

thieve all your seeds so you can't bear fruit

If that ain't enough, they'll jack your privacy

ain't leavin' you with much

try and tell them that you want it back

they look at you like you ain't been jacked

that's how you know the caper's been pulled

they're tryna play you for a motha fuckin fool

cuz its a

Jack move in a caper

things getting shady, I'll see you later

Light As A Feather

2010-07-22T16:33:00.003-04:00

Can't waste my time, just got this one life

I'm fly, I'm grind, you should have got in line

Not trying to check your time, or decide your plight

I just know what's right for me and i had to decide

I don't wanna let you go, but I'd rather see us grow

No hating, I'm not mad, you should have checked what you had

Been thru enough to know when its time to bust a move

I got to be out, and there ain't know 'bout a doubt

Ooooooh won't you come on down

If its Light as a feather i might keep it around

We've tried, its true and even though baby, I love you

Feels wrong to pretend, instead of good livin'

Soul reflections, like vacations, ya dig?

I want a love and I want it real big

and I won't give in, no damn fiction

I been thru enough to know when its time for us to move

I got to be out, and there ain't no 'bout a doubt

Oooooh won't you come on down

If its light as a feather I might keep it around

Up top, down low, left right, bounce and flow

Take It Off

2010-07-22T16:22:00.005-04:00

Stressed out, feeling just

blood is rising, come the pits

cool enough, so you thought

can't be taught, can't be bought

You're on dry wall, round the mix

I guess you're waiting for a little fix

gonna give you what you want

put it on, your cool is a stunt, so

Put on your cool, you can't afford to take it off

Your face is cracking baby, you better fix it quick

your mask is breaking baby, you can't put up with it

you better do it, you better do it fast

you don't want to be left last in class

you better do it, you better do it right

you don't want to be left alone tonight, so

Put on your cool, you can't afford to take it off

Balm Yard

2010-07-22T16:16:00.002-04:00

The West Side's on Fire, Let it burn, burn, burn

Where you taking me?

To the West Side

How we gonna get there?

We gone ride

Why we goin there?

Its on Fire

When we gonna get there?

2, 3, 4, 5

The West Side's on Fire, Let it burn, burn, burn

West side is on fire and we're gonna let it burn

We ain't got no water so its cause for concern

Better get it hot, so you can take a turn

West Side is on fire and we're gonna let it burn

Let it burn, burn, burn

Prologue

2010-07-22T15:59:00.004-04:00

Man, woman, man
From Ever Since
Our being, our existence has been From Ever Since

Whether we are winged, feathered, scaled, furred, whatever
We have been upon this planet From Ever Since

Every Single Piece Of Life
From Ever Since

Stomp and Loafer

2010-07-20T23:24:00.003-04:00

Coupla reviews of the record: Stomp and Stammer and Creative Loafing.

Since From Ever Since

2010-07-20T02:48:00.004-04:00

Looks like we're only gonna have the first 50 of 300 LP's for the show, but we'll have plenty of CD's. Travis Thatcher is moving to New York, Circuit Diva to St. Louis, which means this Friday, you have a lot of firsts and lasts hacked with The Tribe's Hatchet. 3am Vodka/Mentalfist Records throw their Machete as well. Speakeasy or you might want a ticket.

Dry Ink In A Caper

2010-07-19T22:43:00.002-04:00

Q and A with TC and Me.

Sauced

2010-07-13T22:32:00.002-04:00

We'll be at Sauced on Friday nite to give the test press of "From Ever Since" a proper spin as well as plenty of other funky hors d'oeuvres that will wash down nicely with a Dixie Cup or a Mickey's Grenade. How's 10 pm sound? 753 Edgewood Ave.

RIP Sugar Minott

2010-07-12T10:52:00.003-04:00

I remember grabbing this album from Hoodlum's in Tempe, AZ, having learned about it from an Easy Star records e-mail (they used to spam me with info on what sounded like the dopest parties in NYC). Never got to see Sugar live, but I always wondered if Goodie Mob knew they shared a track title.

(reposted from Dookie Platter's Polyrhythmiques blog)

Kenn Two Four

2010-07-08T01:39:00.005-04:00

Kenn Two Four did some design on the record as well. Kenn's been helping out since he took me around metro Atlanta tryna find an amp back in '94.

Jakob Lebaron Dwight

2010-07-08T01:29:00.004-04:00

Our old friend, Jakob Lebaron Dwight

designed the cover for "From Ever Since."

JLP

2010-07-08T01:26:00.004-04:00

We met Jerrod Landon Porter on tour and he did typography, layout. and revised the Shakedown Records logo.

Morgan Cooper

2010-07-08T01:21:00.003-04:00

Morgan Cooper was the photographer for all the art regarding "From Ever Since."

From Ever Since

2010-06-29T22:50:00.008-04:00

July 23rd at the EARL, Noot d' Noot unleashes its 3rd album in 2 years, "From Ever Since." Engineered by Ed Rawls on 2" reels at The Living Room, the record is packed with many staples from the band's live sets such as "Balm Yard" and "Jack Move." Working in The Living Room allowed for a more focused studio effort, with all tracking being done between Feb 20-26th, Apr 1-7, and some other lost dates throughout April, with mixing taking place on May 9th-13, 17th and 18th 2010.

List Of Aux Sends:

1. Plate

2. Echoplex

3. RE-101

4. Leslie

5. Fairchild Spring Reverb

6. RE-201

7. Memory Man

8. Moog Analog Delay/Moog Freq Box/ Moog Low Pass Filter/ Mutron Phasor

Track Listing:

1. From Ever Since (Prologue)

2. Balm Yard

3. Take It Off

4. Light As A Feather

5. Jack Move

6. Know That Feelin'

Side 2

1. Super Double Buzz

2. The Tribes Hatchet

3. The Traveller

4. Machete

5. A Little Goes A Long Way

Homicidal Regicidal

2010-06-27T19:42:00.012-04:00

If you ever wondered about the music James Joyce and I, along with Gray Kiser and Greg King made in 1996, Beyond Failure is now featuring a detailed eyewitness account. An excerpt from Gray's chapter below:

My first show with the band was on New Years Eve at the I Defy house playing with a bunch of other bands who I don't remember, but Inkwell headlined, and there seemed to be lots of folks from Florida there, so maybe Reversal Of Man played or something. Didn't matter. That show marked a decided shift for the band, as we would now file the music down to a dull, blunt instrument of assault. The fast parts were to be more intense, the heavy parts more suffocating, the noise factor more piercing, and the lyrics more combative.

Everything was to be administered at the highest volume available, and with maximum prejudice. If the music wasn't going to be enough, we would literally hit you in the face with a dead animal. Literally. That show had it all, fire, blood, interpretive dance, flying squirrels...everything.

One final anecdote, and probably a fitting epitaph for the band; we were playing in Gainseville (again with the fucking Florida, what's with that place?) on the partially aborted Regicide/Hal al Shedad tour, when the stocky guy from Hot Water Music, who's name I forget (further proof my memory is terrible), but who was a really nice guy, and our host for the evening to boot, started doing what we as a band wanted people to do at our shows, and that is get loose and go off. He may or may not have been pretty hammered, but that didn't matter, what did matter was that his good time began infringing on good time of someone else there, and the two decided exchange words whilst slam-dancing around to a Regicide soundtrack. At some point in the exchange, the Hot Water Music guy figured his point had not been adequately made, so he felt the need to reinforce it by pounding it into the other dude's face over and over. It really was a good beating, poetic in it's efficiency, but never sparing on the brutality of it's message.

So as this is happening, the other audience member s begin the ritual of pretending they are going to break it up, gathering in a loose circle around the action and more or less hooting and hollering. The band played on. One audience member actually tried to grab the microphone from me mid song which was met with a swift push back and the band played on. As an artiste, I could not allow this one person to ruin the enjoyment of the show for others in attendance (regardless if they were currently on the loosing end of a savage ass kicking). This person then approaches a second time, and screams in my ear, "you have to stop this!" implying that the band was responsible for policing the activities of this establishments (presumably) paying clientele. I grabbed his shirt, got as close as possible, and yelled back into his ear, "don't you get it, this is what we want!", and the band played on.

InstaCool

2010-06-22T12:19:00.007-04:00

Noot d' noot's own Mathis Hunter aka Bimbi S. Garraux damn near reassembled the Good Friday Experiment (paging Dr. Pahnke) for another performance of works from his solo venture, Soft Opening. The band plays July 2nd at the historic Highland Inn, alongside The N.E.C. Rubiaceae-fueled visions certain to startle the iliac crest on down into submission. Just another Friday night uprising against the Casimir effect.

When In Montreal Pt. 2

2010-06-16T23:51:00.011-04:00

Damn. Knew this would happen. Its all becoming a distant memory now. What's next? Fri, Ches-a-rena, Cheswick, PA, which is not quite Pittsburgh. A giant skating ring converted into a Ultimate Fighting Arena, and sometimes a place for shows. Lots of security folk that grew up on some hockey. Weird Shit.

Saturday Nite, South Street in Philly at TLA. Prolly my favorite show of the tour. Philly is a nice hybrid of ATL and NYC. Its got all the thangs I can dig about the big Atlantic cities without having the be ye olde apple. Which was where we headed next, w/o Of Montreal. You should try entering the Holland Tunnel on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Its about like a bebe shooting down the birth canal.

The Lower East side offered us a cold dose of reality. I can guestimate there were 20 -30 patrons at the Cake Shop who got to witness Jah Scorp ravage thru several back line amps during our first number in hopes of finding one that could make a slight impression of bass vibrations. Still, it was good to see a lot of old friends and to play w/ Jim Mchugh's new ensemble, Gay Africa, who are now known as Night Jazz. On drums was the cat from White Hills, Lee, who incidentally is a bad brotha on the skins. When Lee told me that Noot had taken James Brown and successfully crossbred him w/ Hawkwind, I nearly teared up.
Monday and back in the South. Charlottesville, TJ's stompin' grounds. Played a club of his namesake, The Jefferson. Had a cool underground tunnel to take you from front of house to the greenroom. You could hear everyone stomping the floor as you passed thru. Good show, good crowd. Shortest drive of the tour was to Richmond, so we went ahead and got ourselves there.

One of the real cool thangs about this tour and Of Montreal in general is that the shows are all ages, or at the least 14 and up. As this picture shows, the kids are allright. I remember what it was like to see shows when I was this age, and man it was a lot of fun. We definitely fed off that energy and I hope we can find a way to play more all ages shows now that we're back at home.

We stayed in this shithole hotel in Richmond for 2 nights cuz we got rooms for $35 a night. I don't really have a picture to do it justice. The National was rad, definitely the coolest green room on the East Coast if not the country. Cafeteria, hot tub, sauna, pool tables, and 10-12 giant plasmas. Sleepy called it 'Livin the Life.'

Last show on the tour was Chapel Hill and outta nowhere, this dude shows up. It was great timing, cuz by this point we had a lot of people coming down with a gnar gnar recycled air virus and the troops were weak. Dookie saved the day. Of course, after the last show you gotta drive home, no matter how far. Pulled up to The Living Room with the sunlight fully upon us. 8:15 AM I would estimate. Things haven't looked quite like this since.

Fly On, Starchild

2010-06-16T23:36:00.001-04:00

Fly on, brother. It was little more than a year ago that I saw a 50-something year old man in a diaper deliver a sanctified testimony about the Cosmic Slop and now he is gone. Truly one of the great singers in a tribe of great singers, not to mention the ability to turn a guitar into a rubber banded banjo. The music lives on.

Cons

2010-06-14T22:57:00.002-04:00

Chuck Taylor wanted to know how Noot does it.

Good Times Tonight

2010-06-10T12:21:00.002-04:00

Dookie Platters opens it up at The Sound Table tonight, before Cosmo Baker and Kon & Amir take you higher. Judi Chicago and Joi get it rowdy on the stage next door. Plus art from artists, including Baxter Crane who created a gorgeous Zombie Dinosaur, which I in turn gave to my wife.

Eulogium

2010-06-09T03:26:00.005-04:00

The record is mixed, the record is sequenced, the record is mastered. The record is headed to Baltimore to be cut. Doing all this listening, I feel sure Jerry Wexler's tombstone spells it out for us all. Two words: More Bass.

Extreme Gambling: The Die is Cast

2010-06-08T01:01:00.003-04:00

Shakedown Records product placement. Not unlike cupping the underbreast, bra.

Skins Alone

2010-06-08T00:52:00.000-04:00

¿Donde?

When In Montreal Pt. 1

2010-06-06T01:18:00.017-04:00

Fri Nite: 9PM, May 21. The time chosen to meet at The Living Room and pack "Midnight Steel," the stand in for Good Friday Experiment's once mighty steed, "Blue Steel," who has sat idly in the driveway since an electrical meltdown back in the fall. The time chosen to gather the 9 musicians that were to make up Noot d' Noot for a 2 week tour supporting of Montreal. Down 1 from our 10 piece line up since Dookie Platters was to be wed 2 days after our return, the remaining 9 Noots agreed to meet on Friday night to insure a timely arrival in New Orleans for the Saturday night show. First call came in about 8:30 from Electro Siren aka Karima indicating she would not be home from work till around 11PM.

Even the most punctual folks were running behind schedule when I got my first contact with the percussion section. It was from B. Cruzan, the timbale player, and he was to inform me that Skins Malone, conga player extraordinaire, 1st chair of percussion, and OG Noot, was OUT. Not going. After all the work the band has put in over the last 3 years, at our most flourishing moment yet, dude tags out. He delivered this message to Cruzan, and has not been heard of since. 10pm. 8 Noots left, 4 at the studio.

Cruzan had to make some quick decisions: should he be the timbale player or the conga player? He hadn't practiced as the conga player, but thought it more crucial to the operation. In the end, he became some kind of combination of the two. He went back to his house and McGuyvered a new percussion station together and I went to get him. By the time I got to The Living Room with B and Circuit Diva, it was about 12am. The 7 of us headed over to Kirkwood to get the last passenger, Karima. Just as we were about to get on I-20 at 12:48am, she realized she had left her phone. Might as well make it 1am.

So we drove thru the nite to the outskirts of Mobile, AL and put a serious dent in the drive. Upon waking, the challenge of 8 adults trying to make group decisions became a very cruel reality. The first battle of the "Metabolism Wars" took place at Waffle House when 2 all star breakfasts were moved from plates into plastic containers and consumed in Midnight Steel. Suffice to say, who was going to eat what and when was definitely the most complex and sensitive issue of the entire journey. Forget about what songs you're gonna play or how well the show went. Folks gotta eat. The basic breakdown was the punker "Get In The Van" mentality versus the "I don't know what you think this is, but I'm not going anywhere until I have a meal." I'm not going to break down who fell on what side and who said what to who, because no one remembered any of it by the time we got to our destinations, and certainly no one remembers it now.

Anyways we were at the Howlin' Wolf by 2ish and meeting up with the of Montreal cats. In true rock n' roll style, Kevin was rehearsing with new drummer Clayton for the first time because he had been in LA mixing the new record all the way up until the tour. We had plenty of time to kill and headed off to the French Quarter. We didn't make it a block before getting our first drank.

Needless to say that swamp weather and an entire day of drinking took its toll well before the sun went down. Is it the weather that makes people get so faded? Maybe its the only way to combat that environment.

I don't know if it was because it was my first time seeing of Montreal or the crowd, or the heat, or what, but the New Orleans show stands out in my mind's eye as the most psychedelic of the tour. The way of Montreal set up their screens that night in a concave pattern made their visuals that much more otherworldly. Not to mention all the kids out in front of the club just gone. Not for the rest of the tour was the drug usage that rampant, and I think that is more a reflection on New Orleans than of Montreal. From inside the van, we watched this kid on the sidewalk, who couldn't have been more than 17, rip a blotter page and put the tabs in some tin foil and then gobble one himself. I remember as we were getting ready to leave, this car full of girls pull up on the sidewalk right in front of the club and then jump out of the car and proceed to dance circles around it with some craaaazy ass dance music blaring that sounded like it was from another planet. Literally a dancin' in the streets dance party! No other city in America comes anywhere near as beautifully strange as NOLA.

Sadly, we had to leave the Dancin' in the streets party because the next show was Austin and that's a pretty healthy drive. Got our 1st ticket about 45 minutes after leaving NOLA. Don't really remember where we stopped for the night, but the ticket had not slowed Jah Scorpion's roll just yet and by the next afternoon we had another one. Hit some bad traffic and tried to access the access road to the side of the highway just in time for a sheriff to block us off and start screaming at us. Amazingly, he told us to get back on the highway, avoiding a 3rd ticket. Got to Austin a little tense and just in time to soundcheck before the doors opened. Played at The Mohawk, which is a rad club in a rad music town. And there's nothing like some Austin breakfast tacos.

Onwards to Dallas, which is not so bad a drive. B Cruzan was still working out how to consolidate the drum parts to one player, and I remember us taking some risks in the set list. This was not our finest performance, but it made us really figure out what we needed to do for the rest of the shows. By Tulsa, we had a set figured out that we pretty much stuck with. We had left a drum trigger back in Atlanta, and The Late BP Helium went out and purchased one for us. This cat got us on the tour, looked after us the whole time, and even made suggestions as to make the set flow properly. He's what you call Good People, and we are very grateful to him.

Cain's Ballroom was one of my favorite clubs we played because the place has open since 1924 and is home to Bob Wills. This one cat had been working there since he got out of high school and was telling us about when the Sex Pistols came thru, David Lee Roth era Van Halen, and Cliff Burton era Metallica.

To get to rock my Rickenbacker bass on the same stage where Cliff rocked his, now that's something. The crowd response in Tulsa was really insane. All in all, a solid show.

The 9th Street Summerfest in Columbia, MO was next. It was a huge turnout, as an entire street was blocked off to allow for the outdoor stage. Good show. And then on to Buster's in Lexington, KY which was a great show, as we were joined by BP Helium performing as "Mecha-Dookie Platters."

Dream Sanitation got a pretty good repertoire going with Priceline and haggled us hotel rooms for the prices we were willing to pay. Probably the nicest hotel we got to stay in was in downtown Lexington, most notable because it was not a chain. A one of a kind place that had its own charm.

As we approached this 4 story hotel, I noticed open blinds in the corner on the top floor. It was late, I was tired, and of Montreal has an overwhelming amount of heads on sticks floating around their production. But what I saw certainly seemed to be a floating Yoko Ono head whipping around like some sort of witch or a startled stallion in the window. The closer I looked, the more flesh I began to notice surrounding this head. Suddenly, it dawned on all of us that now we were at a show, and this Yoko character in the window was the star!!!

It would have been rude not to watch, so we took in the slaying for a minute while Crab Louie offered a "thumbs up" to which Yoko reciprocated her own positive gesture. I went on inside but apparently a few minutes later, Yoko's counterpart wanted to get a part in the show, which sent everyone running for cover.

By now, we are up to the following Friday in our recap, more than halfway thru the journey. This is where we shall draw the line on Pt. 1.

Occasions

2010-06-05T01:48:00.001-04:00

From the Granada Theatre In Dallas

And The National in Richmond

Back In the A

2010-06-04T11:15:00.003-04:00

Our Spacecraft reinterred the 285 troposphere about 7:45am Thurs morning bearing an extra passenger, Mr. Dookie Platters, who flew into Raleigh to play the last date and raise the morale of an exhausted 8 piece Noot just in time. Everyone was at home and in bed by 9am, with exception of our driver, Mr. Jah Scorpion, who went directly to teleworking and who flew out to Springfield, MO for a lab study early this morning. This is what you might call overachievement in efficiency and we tip our hat to the man who drove all but 1.8 miles in a 13 day 4350 mile journey. Now that we our safely on the ground and possess the intangible "free time," maybe we can begin to tell our tale.......

Cannibals In The Mist, Halfway Thru the Trip

2010-05-27T23:58:00.004-04:00

Lexington, Kentucky. 'bout halfway thru the trip, 4 encounters with the law, 2 tickets, 1 member down, 7 shows down, close to 2000 miles, and feeling good. Couldn't be a nicer, more accommodating band to be out here with. We were joined by BP Helium this evening as a stand-in stunt double known as "Mecha-Dookie Platters."

All the drives have been pretty epic so far, but we are about to hit the coast again, so hopefully more time to check in with blogs n' such. Then we can fill you in on some stories such as leaving Denny's and having an offer made on Effectiv to a cat who "just got out of prison, and wants to be your friend....and if you need 'em I got some Cannibals in the Mist." More later.

Backwudz

2010-05-02T16:26:00.004-04:00

Noot at the 73rd annual Dogwood Festival filmed by our folks at Creative House Media. Piedmont Park's best dancer can be found in the 3rd video at about 3:18.

Set List:

Balm Yard

Super Double Buzz

Neighborhood Clucker

Up Top, Down Low

Take It Off

El Pichon

2010-05-02T16:20:00.003-04:00

Another Alex Adan original. New Year's Eve cover of Soul Makossa featuring El Pichon of Ile Tambor.

Recompas

2010-04-19T14:47:00.002-04:00

From our Saturday Nite Show. He makes his own intruments!

recompas live part 1 4/17/10 from Travis Thatcher on Vimeo.

recompas live part 2 4/17/10 from Travis Thatcher on Vimeo.