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I'll chime in here with my Laika & The Cosmonauts experience...during one
very brief tour of the west coast area, they played my cd store and a couple
of other so-called paying club gigs. (I ended up paying them more than the
clubs did!!)
Anyway, they put on one heckuva live performance. Even though I tried to
keep the volume down (in a store, busy shopping district during the daytime,
uppity snobbish Palo Alto University Avenue, etc.) they were so damn good
that I let them cut loose without getting us all arrested. Extremely
controlled and powerful in their dynamics and performance. I can still
recall that show in my mind and ears.
Stretch Riedle
At 10:33 AM 10/18/05 -0700, Phil wrote:
>You have more live experience with them than I (twice as much LOL), so
>I will defer to your opinion. That being the case, then they really
>laid back in the Pit. They were great fun, but a long way from
>powerful.
>
>Phil
>
>--- ipongrac <> wrote:
>
>> --- In , Phil Dirt <phildirt@r...>
>> wrote:
>> > I recorded Laika and the Cosmonauts one
>> > Tuesday night at KFJC back in 1994 just after their first
>> performance
>> > at SXSW. Fine musicians - yes, very nice folks - yes, but not a
>> power
>> > band. they were very tight and very consistent.
>>
>> I will respectfully disagree, Phil - at least somewhat. Clearly,
>> L&TC
>> are not Slacktone, but when they DO (or at least did) 'lay into it'
>> they were as powerful as any surf band I've ever seen. Just think of
>>
>> their live versions of "Mission: Impossible" or "Ba-ha-re-bah!"
>> or "Psyko" or even "Fugitive". I've asked Dusty which of the modern
>> surf drummers he admires, and the first guy he said, without much
>> thinking about it, was Janne Haavisto, L&TC drummer. And rightly so
>> -
>> he's an incredibly powerful drummer - when he wants to be. I also
>> love how he (purposefully) speeds up during some intense songs, to
>> drive the band to the absolute edge of their abilities and raise the
>> intensity to the breaking point. Of course, a much bigger part of
>> the
>> L&TC sound, especially nowadays, is slower, more melodic and decidely
>>
>> non-surf music, but that should not detract us from recognizing what
>> an amazing and, yes, even powerful, surf band they once were.
>>
>> Ivan
