Dosh/Halloween Alaska/Tapes and Tapes A Complete Disaster @ First Avenue 12/29.06

My good friend Ed would like to fill us in on the show that was supposed to
be great but completely crashed in front of a sold out crowd.

Last Friday’s show on First Ave was a complete disappointment.  The
show kicked off with Dosh, the one man instrumental shit-show.  
Dosh uses electronic looping to overlay several channels of music in
the vain attempt to simulate an entire band.  When you do this with a
musician who sucks however, you end up simulating a band where every
member sucks.   It seems these days that bands are becoming more and more
desperate to create a unique sound.  On one hand this is great because
bands are continually innovating new styles of music but on the other,
bands like Dosh continue to emerge and pollute our ears with their
“unique” garbage.  Moving on to Halloween Alaska.  Shit…I think I just
threw up in my mouth a little.  Imagine a packed, sold-out First Avenue
show and fun, excitement, and energy.  Unfortunately for us Halloween
Alaska somehow figured out a way to destroy the fun of this atmosphere by
playing their slow, mind-numbing music.  I truly can’t think of a
better way to describe their music.  Their slow lyrics and weird cord
progressions brought me and the crowd close to a comatose state
wanting, to stick a pencil in my eye just to get some sort of stimulation.  In
the setting that night, all they needed to do was play a few bar chords
and scream “get the fuck up” a few times and we probably would have had
an instant mash-pit but no, we were stuck with a set from Halloween
Alaska…Garbage. I would have had more fun listening to blackcats going
off in my ears.  Mr. Edvard

I got Tapes and Tapes, lets see here... very loud. Thanks to a broken speaker right next to
us, the already awful vocals from the lead singer of tapes made our ears bleed..
It's unfortunate that the biggest local band at the moment is this bad... They have
some decent riffs, but all and all they suck.  I do appreciate that one of my friends
got us into to this show. But this made me think about being very careful about what
bands I see, especially when their local.. Their is a lot of great local music out there
but be very cautious on the shows you attend..