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90 Day Men, Beans, Tortoise
90 Day Men, Beans, Tortoise

Show Date: 2004-04-22
Venue : Bowery Ballroom
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90 Day Men held its own for a while with shoe-gazer songs filled out by big-time pedal-hopping guitar and keyboard fills, but a proggy 15-minute jam session tested my attention span. Thus, a trip to the bar, an unsuccessful modeling of a Beans T-shirt (why do concert tees always have to be so huge?), and being accosted by a lady just dying to know "how to get back stage for Tortoise." Sorry missy.

To the delight of some and the confusion of many, enter Beans. Ex-Antipop Consortium emcee, author of two great solo records, and sensitive guy from a different planet (as well as White Plains, N.Y.), Beans acknowledged his own unpopularity with Tortoise enthusiasts, shouted out to Yo La Tengo, and danced around spastically to his self-programmed beats, which he accessed by pressing play on a Discman. The formula doesn't leave much room for spontaneity -- the songs from Tomorrow Right Now and Now Soon Someday mimicked the album versions faithfully -- but it was impossible to leave without a new appreciation for Beans' rapid rapping, delivered so fast and so furious that he was left gasping for breath after each tune.

Surprisingly, he performed an Antipop oldie (their breakup was messy) to the delight of all five people in the audience who raised their hands when asked if they knew APC. A capella versions were plentiful. He performed "Databreaker" sans beats, emphasizing the awkward silence in the song before he chants "Databreaker" with increasing volume. And the gateway-drug-themed poem "Booga Sugar" mesmerized the crowd, especially the kid blazing a joint on my right. One new song was performed a capella, the other was the most futuristically militant I've ever heard him.

Tortoise was -- well, Tortoise -- a crew of dudes sweating it up to busy beats laid down by up to four percussionists and two laptops in front of a video screen flashing trippy, Stan Brakhage-like colors and shapes. The set was heavy on tunes from It's All Around You, the new album. The live Tortoise experience is not so different from the live Stereolab experience, really, and not only because the 'Lab also rocks the trippy video-screen gimmick.

It's somewhat unbelievable initially that humans are making the cold, precisely perfect sounds that Tortoise makes, melding them nicely in a cool funk jam. But jams are jams, and they tend to get boring. The heads were bobbing early, by the end of the set they were nodding a bit -- as Beans' former APC partner M. Sayiid would say, "Rock shows -- heads dipping low like potholes."

- 2004-04-22
 
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