The Adnostic

A friend gave me tickets to the Brian Jonestown Massacre last night for my birthday, so I took my friend Kimi to the Vanguard for a little rock and roll. I invited her mostly because JDate Guy couldn't go, but also because she's my favorite +1.

The venue was relatively new (read - I have never been there before and I drove right past it the first time) and clean and spacious with fuzzy walls. We arrived around 9, missing Innaway, but just in time for Quarter After.

Quarter After was good. Nothing particularly special, but solid song writing and musicianship. Their last song dragged a bit, but it was their last song, you have to let stuff like that slide on a last song.

Then it was time for BJM. FUCKING MUSICIANS!!! Do your fucking JOB! Just because you have a reputation for being an eccentric artist does not mean that you should dick your fans around while you're on stage waiting for the heroin to kick in.

In response to this disaster which I had absolutely no patience for, I have developed a new set of rules. I put a lot of thought into these so listen up and listen well:

1) There should not be a one hour wait in between you and the band that played before you. Get your skinny addicted ass on stage!

2) I know you consider yourself a tortured artist and all, but an instrumental should only last 5 to 10 minutes. TWENTY minutes is TOO LONG!!!

3) I should not have to wait another 10 minutes for you to start your next song while your band mates play the opening measure over and over again like a pack of autistic children. I should not have to watch you saunter around the stage smoking your weed, cracking open a beer, and handing out water bottles. You're a singer right? SING.

I would have more rules, but I was so fed up I left. Kimi, bless her, understood my frustration and said that I would need to experience a good acid trip for something like that to be considered tollerable. That's the kind of advice you get from people who were raised by hipies.

Hey, at least it was free. Thanks Brett and Jodi!