On October 11th many bands had graced the stage of the Glass House which for fan is always a win because it is an up close and personal show. Combichrist had many bands that were playing with them that night and one of them happens to be Davey Suicide. With the new album out they were playing a large selection of songs from World Wide Suicide. With only a half hour set it is the best way to get people to not only hear your new stuff but to get people to become aware of who you are in this large fan base. The band put on a good show. Each member was high energy and despite the little movement they could do on stage, they made sure to take up as much of it as possible. At one point Suicide even got off of the stage and was singing down to the crowd. It was a good way to start off a show for a band that would be all over the stage as well. It was unfortunate to only see them play for such a small set, but it happens that way. At least they sounded great and they had some high energy.
After a few other performer Combichrist came onto the stage and started the set with “ We Were Made to Love You.” This is of course exciting to see what is going to happen with this band. There is so many of them and there are many sounds that come from this music that it is always fascinating to see how it will come to life. As promised we had a very hyper active Andy LaPlague who was running around the stage and making sure to interact with not only his band mates but the people who brought him there, his fans.
Some of the songs that they played were fan requested and by fan requested I mean they literally took a poll of what songs people wanted to hear. I did participate in this and was please to hear “This is my Rifle.” The sound was on point the only thing that was missing for me was the parts from Full Metal Jacket but that is just me being knit picky. One of the band members that always gets over looked is the drummer and I don't want to do that to Joe Letz because HE IS AWESOME TO WATCH. If you ever just want to sit back and watch one band member play forever he is the guy. Whether he is doing it because he is bored or for show it doesn't matter, not only is his sound on point in a highly drumlin based band but he still twirls the sticks, throws it to the crowd, throws them at random band members, or standing on them, it doesn't matter the fact is that he is one of the best drummer sound wise and entertainment wise. It has always been a joy to watch someone play like that.
Aside from the one man show Letz could do on his own, the rest of the band member were on top of it. In fact each band was so on point they sounded better then when I had first seen them a few years back. What I really enjoyed was when the encore came on and LaPlague had one of the drumsticks and he was conducting the band. It was great to see the his art come to life in the way that he wanted it to sound. It was like the mad man was comprising his work and we were lucky enough to see it.
Now for some personal bias shit; I was suppose to have an interview with pretty much all the bands. My video guy was late for the Combichrist interview, I was told it was ok and we could do it later which we didn't do. I wish they would have told me that it was a problem so that I could have just done an audio interview instead. I came all the way from Vegas to interview everyone and everyone bailed. Two of them didn't even answer their text messages. Guys I'm a fan but I'm also incredibly offended that my time was wasted like this. I didn't even get to shower after the bus ride out there so I COULD BE THERE FOR YOUR INTERVIEW. Then I was told one thing and another happened. So I am going to give out one question per a band feel free to email it to me or your publicist.
Combichrist- In our last interview we talked about how Jazz was an influence on the band. Currently I am taking a lit class which is heavily jazzed influenced and for our oral reports I used the interview I did with Andy as an example as the way that music can influence people of all nations and genres. My professor wrote on my slip back (which I got an A on) “ Louis Armstrong; In this presentation you did a very good job of highlighting a couple of the most recognizable features of Armstrong's performance, and including his use of the scat and the trumpet solo. You were able to talk about his use of muted trumpet while playing “Can't We be Friends.” a duet with Ella Fitzgerald. I especially liked the way you connect Armstrong's legacy to an unexpected contemporary band.” How does something like that make you feel? That I was using your music for an oral presentation on a historical member and it was well received for my class.
Davey Suicide- For you music review if you read it I had asked what was the context of “bitch” for your song Filthy Rich. So what are you using it as? In a time where feminism is an up hill battle do you think that it is the time to be using such a cliche fraze?
Darksiderz- There isn't a lot of information on you in fact I had a hard time finding anything so what made you get into this genre of music?
So those are a few of my question. If you would like to conduct your interview to get all of them I am always open for that after my class or before.