2013-07-14

Hopped up on Quaaludes!

Quaaludes in action at El Rio
Morgan (g), Suzy (d), Aimee (v), Megan (b)



I'm back!  Did you miss me?  Rather than go into a bunch of excuses, most of them lame, a few of them not, I'll just get right into it. 

One of my faves for two thousand thirteen so far has been this
local punk group.  I've seen Quaalude Megan before as part of shoegazers Permanent Collection, but not any of the others, so didn't know what to expect when I got the word to drop by local Mission watering hole the Knockout to see them.  Boy, was I knocked out, spellbound by Aimee's soaring, whooping vocals, and the mixture of fast jams and post-punk throbbers.

I love these (non-)guys so much, I took the liberty of taking one
of their songs and assembling my version of it, mainly to make it last longer than the original sub-two minute version. 

You can grab a copy of it here exclusively in lossless FLAC:

Quaaludes - Know Wada Mean [Frank N. Christ mix]

We'll see how long it takes for East Bay Ray and Klaus Fluoride to send me a C&D, haha...in the meantime, I'll just get right into the audiovisuals.  If you want to find out more, y'all are quite capable of of finding their Radio Valencia interview or even their NBC Bay Area writeup (but I'll assist anyway).

Here's my recording of them from El Rio from June 18th, 2013.
Done with Sony ECM-MS907s into Olympus LS-5.

Setlist

soundchecking
Blood On The Ice
Call You Up
Mistake
Hate Mail
Monsters
Iso
Stiff Little Single
Know Wada Mean
I Don't Care

Quaaludes - 2013-06-18 - El Rio - San Francisco CA
(FLACs in a zipfile)

Photoset from El Rio (Flickr)

And here's a vid of the group at Pink String in Oakland in May.
(I prepared this from footage shot by Azuza Kimchi)


Tracks

intro 
Blood On The Ice
Know Wada Mean
Hate Mail
Monsters
I So 
Stiff Little Single
Call U Up 
I Don't Care

(intro/Blood/I So not videoed)

Quaaludes - 2013-05-10 - Pink String - Oakland CA
(FLACs in a zipfile, capture done with Olympus LS-5's built-ins)

Photoset (Flickr)

Lastly, here's what I think was their third ever show, at the Knockout on Tax Day.  Video filmed by yours truly, and I wasn't even the only one there documenting this...



Tracks


Blood On The Ice
Call You Up
Mistake
Hate Mail
Monsters
Stiff Little Single
Gin
Know Wada Mean

(FLACs in a zipfile, capture done with the
Olympus LS-5's built-ins)

Both video versions featured my audio capture blended with the digicam capture, and I think sound somewhat better for it.

If you dig them like I do, it's imperative that you pay a visit to their Bandcamp site and listen to the tracks on their 'She's Weird Like Us' EP and their Live at the Stork Club set and support the band by 
buying stuff from them, going to see them live, and buying their merch and releases.  This is how it happens.