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Sunday December 21st 2003 02:05 AM PST

The Nick Luca Trio got the shaft! I showed up and Chris told me that they had been double booked with another group, and they were not going to play the lounge as before. Instead they were going to be snuck into the mix with the other shit going on in an another room there. So long story short, after a 6 hour drive, they only got to play a 30 minute set. And then the "artistic" musicians took over the room.

So i have a little bit to say about artists and artistic musicians. If you're into performance artwork of any kind, and your friends tell you that you're good... Either A) you're good and your friends have good taste, or B) your friends are lying to you and you SUCK. Now... i'm going to save all you people that suck a whole lot of time. (not meaning that you suck a whole lot of time. Instead that i am going to save you time, those of you who suck) You can tell you suck when only your friends show up and that the people who are already there (that are not your friends) LEAVE. Am i making any sense? Cause this guy who took the stage after Nick Luca, REALLY SUCKED.

Now the only thing he had going for him was that he had two Macs. He set them up and as Chris said, "looked like he was sitting doing his homework" He had a old G3 portable, which everybody knows has a built in microphone in the top of the monitor. But the design was a little weird, so every time you touch the monitor it would affect the microphone input. This guy sat there rubbing the monitor and feeding the input of the microphone into another effects processor then fed it into the other mac. Well after all that fuckin work all it sounded like was feedback. Really loud feedback. Then also on the other mac he was playing with reason. So the entire performance was feedback and techno beats. Needless to say we left and sat in the bar and had more drinks in peace.