The ’00s
TagMaraca mania: Sheilbound quartet line-up at the Lime Spider, 2002
This was Sheilbound in their final quartet permutation. I wish I knew the exact date—do you? Please contact me with any details you have.
Baptized as a bondage bottom by Misty Martinez at Pat’s In The Flats
This was THE disruptive, change-your-thinking concert no one—least of all me—ever expected it to be. Photos never before online!
Weird times at the old Grog Shop: A Festival of Seans, one Black Key & Har Mar Superstar
Sean Tillmann, the Black Keys’ Pat Carney, Robert “The Kid Stays In The Picture” Evans, Ron Jeremy—they’re all in this tale of Sean-sanity!
Beckett & Finky Binks’ hot collab, Whales, open for The Moldy Peaches & The Cassettes at Beachland Ballroom
2002 begins and Speak In Tongues is no more. Eeek! The great (and ongoing) diaspora begins. Unfortunately Williamsburg won, and Cleveland lost…
Watch: Razak Solar System’s final show at the old Grog Shop
We’d been through a lot in eighteen months. We were like King Crimson for latchkey kids. Yes for thrash addicts. Now it was time to bow out.
“Speak In Tongues on the Eastside”: Oblongata, Razak Solar System & Beckett take the Grog Shop
Could we create a Speak In Tongues package show and tour it around our hometown? I’m happy to tell you it worked!
White knuckle shroomin’, The Basketball & Speak In Tongues, 1999
It was nearing the close of 1999 and I had yet to party. You know, really party. Magic mushroom therapy had to be the solution!