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Flagpole Magazine
October .9, 1991
808 in the Big City
808 State of Tommy Boy Records,
played last week in Atlanta and Curtis
Whaley, of Lotion and Michael Lachowski,
of Pylori prepared this review after the show
in the car on the way back to Athens.
Curtis: I don’t know... 808 State. Well,
Michael: What do you mean?
C: Well my friend, it was one of the loudest
shows I’ve ever been to before.
M: Well I don’t know about that because I
was wearing the gag-reflex-inducing ear
plugs the entire night. When I have them in,
every now and then I feel that they’re in, and
I just kind of shudder and temporarily gag...
M: So you think it was too loud?
C: Yeah. I think they were kinda of pushing
it with the speakers— I was hearing it cut off.
M: Not during the show.
C: During the disco. Their mixer was fried,
like your’s is. The disco sounded awful,
although it was good music
M: It was great. The music beforehand:
Techno-mama.
C: Techno-mania-beat.
M: More than anyone that loves techno
music could stand.
C: It reaches this peak of mama, or freneti-
cism, and you’re thinking it can’t go any
farther, and it does.
M: Yeah, except for I wish I had all that
guy’s records.
C: Yeah, me too. If it ever lets up, it only lets
up so that when it comes back in it’ll be even
more frenetic.
M: The big problem
with that big old spot
of dance music is that
no one was really
having any fun while it
was going on. It was
loud as shit.
C: Yeah, but we were
sitting there.
M: People were sit
ting in chairs. ... you
know what the EQ was
for the band? Did you
notice it?
C: No, I didn’t look.
M: Okay, the same
graphic EQ that had
been giving out a
graphic slope for
disco, during the
band when I looked
back there it had
these numerals on there: 113, and that
would alternate with 112. It kept doing that
and when they fmsihed playing it slowly
decayed numerically and it went down to
88, and then that Rastafarian dude came
out and started yelling "Make some noise"
C: Do you think he was annoying or not?
Was he annoying as shit?
M: Yeah, he was annoying.
C: They should
have ditched the
Rasta guy.
M: I don’t know if
they should’ve
ditched him. I
thought of him as
being a Rastafar
ian aerobics in
structor and cheer
leader. He was a
cheerleader for the
band because
otherwise there
wouldn’t have
been one world
spoken.
C: I figured maybe
he maybe
should've only
talked in between
the songs. When
he would come in in the middle of a song I
found it annoying because it would reduce
the level of the rest of the song, not that that
was unwelcome.
M: Well let's say what he said over and over
again, like, about 200 times:
C & M: "Atlanta—Georgia—Masquer
ade—Make some noise—808 State—All the
way from London—The musical extrava
ganza—Eree your mind, express you body."
C: We should explain here that the stage
group consisted of
M: some guys
C: 2 guys, 3 guys
M: in the dark
C: completely dark, lasers, lasers going
crazy
M: but nothing to look at except lasers.
C: Yeah, the rest of the stage was mainly
dark, one guy on stage left playing key
boards
M: hunh, pretending to play keyboards
C: Well, that's another thing, I think they
were actually splitting up the melodies.
M: I think they were splitting up the pre
tending to play the melodies.
C: You don’t think that anybody did a
fucking thing on there?
M: No, because I went in the back, and
when I saw Jeff (Halverson, who used to DJ
at Colorbox), he told me it's all on tape, and
I said I believe you, probably it is, but why
shouldn’t it be, because what’s the point of
them attempting to perform it anyway. Even
if it wasn’t on tape it’ll be all on program, and
if it wasn’t all on program they’d be playing
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