Earthless - live at the Cinefamily, 07.17.08

Last Thursday's live performance by the skull-shatteringly loud San Diego psych band Earthless, as part of the Don't Knock The Rock '08 festival, kicked ass. The cops even came -- we had 6 noise complaints from the band's sound shooting straight out the back patio -- but luckily the cops was very accomodating about the whole situation. Hadrian sez:

It turned out I was wrong when I told the police it won't be much longer until their set's over" I knew the set was supposed to be 45 minutes, but I thought there'd be a break between songs where I could subtly walk up and mention to them to cut the set short -- not knowing there were no songs. This band’s plan was to jam non-stop at peak volume. I waited and waited for the song to end, so I could cut the set short, but unfortunately their set was just too awesome to be interrupted. I really started to sweat. The only thing I could think of to do--which I ended up doing--was to walk up to the side of the stage with a dry erase board and write in all-caps: "COPS. END SOON." Their guitarist visibly laughed when he saw it, and I found out later that he was particularly happy about it all, since the band was having the whole set filmed for posterity. Best of all, it actually worked! Their set ended 5 minutes later, and I managed to get the night over peaceably, without bumming everyone out.

Thanks to Fidelis Fuchs for the photos, and Pimpadelic Wonderland for the great visuals behind the band.