Howdy. How's it going out there? I am pretty swell today, in spite of my baseball playoffs withdrawal. I need a good set of opening rounds and semifinals and a championship series soon. I've decided all regular seasons are a useless, time-consuming distraction in our lives. I mean c'mon; you're telling me I need to watch a hundred games of whatever sport just to see who might have "home" advantage in the playoffs and get a chance to play the worst-seeded team in their respective division? Those are the stakes? I can't think of anything less riveting than this. Except for maybe the opening of this blog post...
One of my favourite bands ever, one of the best live bands in history, and one of the scariest bands to ever form, are all the same band: The Jesus Lizard. Before they broke up in 1999, I got to see Austin/Chicago's the Jesus Lizard a number of times and one of the first interviews I ever conducted (for my university's school paper) was with their endlessly amusing and musically brilliant vocalist, David Yow (remember when I went on tour with Human Highway and the Magic in March and I ran into Yow on the streets of Austin during SXSW and interviewed him? Any one?). So myself, and many, many others, were very excited to hear that the band were reuniting with their original line-up in tact for a 2009 tour that coincides with the re-release of all of their Touch and Go albums. They've played Vancouver already but are playing Toronto and Montreal this week and I'm going to the Toronto show (with Guelph's Brides opening up!!!). Needless to say, I'm very excited to welcome the Jesus Lizard's wondrous drummer Mac McNeilly to the show today to ask him all about this. Please listen!
Mac McNeilly of The Jesus Lizard
What bands from yesteryear would you most like to see reunite and play live again? What's the point of the regular season? What local musical events over the next while are you most excited about?
