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The Glass Lands, Williamsburg, NYC, March 20^th, 2010

EQUINOX SHOW

(76m20s)

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CROSSING STREAMS

Today on the EQUINOX, we will return you to the current-day Excepter STREAMS already in progress, however delayed by one-half solar year. We will return to pick up the older STREAMS we missed along the way following the next EQUINOX. More STREAMS surprises coming up in 2011, including limited vinyl and cassette editions and a second volume of compact disc edits. Watch the skies for magic info ...

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Syrup Room, Bushwick, NYC, December 2005

Excepter had already played two shows with The No-Neck Blues Band, one earlier in the year at the Eardrum Festival in Atlanta, GA, and another a few years before at the Hint House (as a JFR-Caitlin Cook duo performing “Forget Me” and playing one tape piece over the PA.) This one felt like a proper reunion with both bands playing full sets and both on the same label at the time (5RC). Kill Rock Stars boss Slim Moon can be heard greeting JFR as he plants the microphone pre-performance. Show promoter, a “pre-interns” Todd P, had hoisted up the speakers and hung the pepper lights only moments before. JFR, freshly initiated into the Secrets of Capitalism, would correctly intuit the way to get paid at the end of the night by staying up later and getting up earlier than everyone else.

NB: This would be the last STREAM to use the “X” decimal naming convention.

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Webster Hall, NYC, Fall 2005

The one and only (?) time Excepter played a show with their eventual label patrons The Animal Collective. There were about a thousand teenagers in attendance. We asked the lighting engineer to turn on the “specials.” Even Dan Hougland stood up. Lala and Hira delivered a giant grey squash onstage which the band proceeded to run through with steak knives. For the final number, JFR changed into his camouflage “tiger” gear and dove into the audience, knocking heads with a young girl in the process. (There are no accidents: JFR would continually run in to her for years afterward as Excepter played her various attended educational institutions.) On the floor, with a bloodied lip, JFR would be refused re-entrance to the stage by security on account of his wristband removal prior to the set. Finally reaching the backstage area through a circuitous series of stairs and hallways lined with the masks of the Old Gods, JFR would be directed to the Manager's Office, where he would be revealed the Secrets of Capitalism and paid five times the promised fee.

Songs: Entrance / The Lock / Web Star / Auto Fuel / The Last Dance

(38m41s)

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Cake Shop, LES, NYC, Fall 2005

Excepter arranged to play first instead of last so JFR's visiting family could catch the show. JFR performed not only in front of his own father, step-mother, brothers, but also two sets of aunts and uncles, plus associated cousins. To top it off, a two-person camera crew was there to capture the band. Self-conscious much? A paranoiac's dream! For its part, the band put on one of the slackest sets in its career, however centered by the miraculous appearance of an unrehearsed, but seemingly fully-formed pop song “If I Were You” which would become the lead track and video for the eventual Alternation album.

Songs: False Start (The Buzzing) / Sad Dancer (Slow Runner) / If I Were You / Come Clean / Give Up / Any and Every

(39m53s)

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North Six, Williamsburg, Fall 2005.

How's the weather out there? I hear the wind is blowing all the barrettes from your hair. You don't need them up here. No one grows beards. They all stay the same shave as yesterday. Opening up for veteran Japanese psych band Yura Yura Teikoku at future home of the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Frank Macias on hand to capture the band on video (search 'lypse' on your tube.) Trickster-scribe Nick Sylvester thought insects had infested Excepter's merch table t-shirts. Parts of this recording ended up on Alternation, a track in the Tank Tapes, and valuable management contracts lost in the ether. Hey man, where'd you get that L.O.T.I.O.N. Anyway?

Songs: Stairwells / Lypse / The Bath Tub / Know Blues 2 / No Pilot / Still Blues

(34m40s)

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Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Fall 2005

Called down to the sixth borough for a gallery show with Wolf Eyes, Prurient, Chris Corsano and a buncha others. Excepter was the only non-blaster on the bill and a bit out-of-place for it. Sound-dude sure was eager for us to cut our set short, calling off times from the monitors halfway through. I guess the Beavis n Butthead crew there for the fist-pumpers didn't really know what to make of our sloppy crystal lights and rainbow Polo get-up. The promoter didn't either and seemed annoyed when we asked to get paid what we were promised at the end of the night. Same promoter would drop us off a bill at the last minute when we would try to come through town again in the spring. JFR wasn't really aware of the size of chip Philly has on its shoulder about New Yorkers, but JWN was well-versed and treated the crowd with tales of his violent first visit to The City of Brotherly Love. Despite it all, our roadie was found the next morning with his arms wrapped around a cheesesteak (wit wiz).

Tracks: Ground Hum / Last Dance / Op Pop (Walking Through the Night) / The Tank / Brother Ph / Why'd You Call?

(33m29s)