Our new "other" band, Lazu Lie, played at the Safari Jamboree last night (Saturday, August 14th),
and it was fun. We were supposed to play on this cool outdoor stage made on a hay bail trailor and decorated with bloody knives, wrenches, saws, and cleavers (plastic we think)...BUT...then it rained about a minute before the Axxxidentals finished their set. So we went inside and played in the basement area. It was hot, sweaty, filled with mosquitos that bit us all night... but the music flowed like the jager-bombs that were flowing down the throats of the audience. A girl sang backups for a few songs unexpectedly. She basically just hit one bending pitch that sounded like a drunken ghost having an orgasm. One way or another, she was into our shit bigtime. ;)
We played some covers including the guard! classique, "(Lemme Take Ya To A) Dirty Place" featuring Jason Crezel on guest vocals. Also, Lazu Lie cracked into an old chesnut... The Approachables song "Big Night Out"...people sang along. Other tracks included new originals from Lazu Lie, "Abstract Girls", "I Don't Want To Know Anything About That", "A Song Is A Spell", "Madrid", plus Childebeast's "Actual Eagles", Nervous Wrecked's's "Circles", and Livestalk's "Porvoise"...
On Friday we checked out The Doors in Chatham, and that was fucking awesome...gotta say! Wasn't sure what to expect, but the concert was so good. Helps that they got a guy who basically channelled Jim, and wasn't super pretentious about it. He had the voice, the moves, the attitude, and most of all, obviously loves The Doors music. Better than the guys we thought might be filling the role that night. And the audience was filled with super-psyched Doors fans...There were a few times we had to do a reality check as it was pretty unbelievable to hear songs like "L.A.Woman", "Moonlight Drive", "Not To Touch The Earth", played with utter conviction. Damn! Note to Doors: put out another album...why not????
On Saturday afternoon before the Lazu Lie show Matthew Davey and G.J. Stabbz played an acoustic show downtown Waterloo at the TABU fest. And we met Leahy and Randy from Trailer Park Boys. That was fun. Leahy made fun of G.J., calling her Anorexia, Bulimia, then Chlamydia...classic. And he sang a duet with Matt's daughter...creepy and cute! That gig went well too I thought. Not the upbeat rock that was being played before and after it, that's for sure...
