![]() THE NIGHT OF TABOO BENDERS! a benefit for the radical webstation www.luver.com A night of cultural terrorism and subversion with legendary hard/deep core reality messers deep in the bowels of the underground where www.luver.com webcasts 24/7! It was an historic show! Slaughterhouse, Oakland, CA Saturday, June 26, 2004 Hep Si New Earth Creeps The Feederz Fluff Grrl Frank Moore's Cherotic All Star Band |
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Well, two weeks
later, and I’m finally recovered enough
to write about the amazing show at the Slaughterhouse. John the Baker
is a master at creating communities of loving, committed people in
the context of running illegal hardcore punk spaces. The Slaughterhouse
is the ultimate of this…it matches perfectly what The Cherotic
All-Stars are all about. And I ain’t saying that just because
John sweetened the benefit pot for www.luver.com with his
own money! The Slaughterhouse is secret…no address on the poster.
It was the bowels of the underground in the heart of Oakland’s
old market district…a location to kill for! It is just a warehouse,
unmarked. You had to squeeze under the half-closed metal door, passing
by the fire-breathing JTB. That metal door will be locked up tight
before the show gets going. You walked through a winding maze of
halls dark filled with boxes and sofas, walls encrusted with occult
punk graffiti. Welcome to untamed freedom. But every punk demon there
was so nice, warm…scary! The maze opened into a big performance
room. There is a big “green” room where the bands [etc.]
hung out for hours…blood going down the drain in the cement
floor under the harsh light. Later that blood will be mine when,
during The Feederz’s set, a guy broke through the blocking
of me by Stacey and Kirsten and caused a bleeder booboo and we beat
a retreat from the mosh pit into the bands’ room for some babying. |
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