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...SHELLAC At 84 Kingston St: October...
...Steve's latest band is Shellac. He playsguitar and sings, Bob Weston plays bass, and ToddTrainer drums. Their sound is sparser, funkier,still aggressive and loud, but significantly morerepetitive, less interesting and lessground-breaking than Big Black. My roommate heard"My Black Ass," the first song on their '94 LPAt Action Park, and asked, "Is this RageAgainst the Machine?" (It only took me a week orso to speak to him again.) Steve has announcedthat all Shellac songs are about either Canada orbaseball. Steve is now 36, and his indiecredibility is fading fast...
...Saturday, October 24, Shellac performedlive at 84 Kingston St., a loft near Chinatown,around 2 p.m.. The show had no publicity. To reachthe show, you had to wait in a line that wound itsway up stairs festooned with graffiti and oddsmells, like how you pass through a themed areawhile you're waiting in line for a ride at anamusement park. Victory at Sea opened. When theybegan to play, my friend said, "Oh no! They havefeelings they'd like to share with us!" And indeedthey did. Or I think they did. Lots of bands thesedays make it difficult to tell...
...then Shellac played. Shellac was good.I had always been under the impression that thevocals were distorted, but that's just the waySteve sounds when he's yelling. Steve jumpedaround a lot and banged his head. Bob Weston's apudgy guy, with curly blond hair. Todd Trainer isthe ugliest man alive--he looks like Splinter fromthe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All of them canplay the hell out of their instruments. Theystarted with "The Guy Who Invented Fire" and thenplayed all the memorable songs from the firstalbum--"A Minute," "Dog and Pony Show," "TheAdmiral"--and many of their less memorable songsfrom their...
...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Jiggle the Creek on Friday, March 24. AIDS Brigade Benefit on Saturday, March 25. Shellac on Wednesday, March 29. Dambuilders on Thursday, March 30. Upstairs: Band of Susans on Thursday, March 23. Mommy & I Are One on Friday, March 24. 360's on Saturday, March...