Time Of Orchids-The Stone NewYork,Nov. 24

For those who can't make it tomorrow, there's another show next month in NYC.

Much to my chagrin of posting/telling you this Avestin (as I know you're a fan of this type of music, and hell, so am I!)...Time Of Orchids are probably the worst band I've ever seen live...and for me, who can see/appreciate the good in most bands this is an unprecedented statement saying much...I found absolutely nothing redeeming seeing these guys "play".  In my ears, everything that they presented to me as music was a direct antithesis of such....and this isn't coming from someone who's unfamiliar with the territory that other bands and Time Of Orchids get lumped into. 

To me, it looked and sounded like a band who had no clue what they were doing, how to make anything sound remotely consonant/melodic/rhythmic or flat out musical, and almost arrogantly passed it off under the guise of "being weird"...kind of that blurred ratiocination of "are they just being weird and can't play?" to "sure they're weird but they can also play and sound good and CONCRETE at being dissonant/topsy-turvy/whatever"!  They fell into the former...and I felt gave the latter bands a bad bad name.  

I opened up a can of worms over at progressiveears when I stated similar sentiments...but hopefully I don't have to defend myself (bah, just did above, couldn't help it) in saying that I just think they're god awful, and really just not for me...let's just say, cheers if you like them!  And if you HAVEN'T seen them before, let me know what you thought!  Enjoy the night out either way!

I don't think I like them overall I think...