(outside the) BOREDOMS 'Boadrum' under the Brooklyn Bridge

historic!

unbelievable disappointment.

the whole frickin' WORLD was on line for this thing by the time i got there at 3.30.

c'est la vie.

though, with the *insane* number of people showing up, wonder if VICE mag/records will think about further franchising VICE out to include a music festival? hmm?

SUROOSH! GAVIN! HURRY THE FUCK UP WILL YA?!

ALSO: anyone got a setlist?

oh, i got there at 5 and it was mobbed...i ended up watching most of it from the bridge and it was awesome.

musically, much better than i expected...a great time.

it was better on the bridge...you got to see every drummer in unison from above.

not mentioned yet in any comments that ive seen here is that at least 4 or 5 kids jumped the fence and rushed in from the volunteer entrance side gate(apparently). we saw that from up on the bridge, about 5 minutes before or just after it started. the cops were chasing them down like they were bank robbers or something. i wonder if those kids got arrested or what happened to them.

those cops were the worst, it wasnt even nypd, it was state or federal park rangers or something like that. they should never hold events in this park again, ever.

and to people saying well what do you expect a free show- big free shows dont have to go down like this, with a lot of people going away with bad taste in your mind. for anyone old enough to remember just think back to free sonic youth at cetral park summerstage on july 4, 1993. but why go back that far you had many many more people at the television show in the park last month.

those cops are hot, i would have blown them to get in. next time don't forget your kneepads

it's a state park and those guys in grey are state police. i watched them arrest one of those kids... dunno what happened to the rest.

BV:

If you are ever in a situation like that again PLEASE post about it. You have many loyal followers out here, some of whom may well be in a position to help you out.

why didn't people just swim over to the park?

So first up, I have a pair of videos up on my blog Pop Tarts Suck Toasted so if you feel like torturing yourself by watching a small sample of the event feel free to do so, but by the amount of cameras and recording going on during the event I can guarantee this will be coming out on DVD or on CD sometime in the near future. Maybe it'll be available as a stocking stuffer for you guys.

That said the line was absolutely insane on Saturday. I arrived at about 3pm from the F train on Jay St. and walked all the way around until I reaced the press line. There was easily 12,000 people on line if not more. If I were one of the people waiting on the line I would have been most upset that the organizers accepted so many RSVP's. They easily could have taken the 4,000 they were allowed and cut it off at that point which would have made people mor reluctant to show up and wait on line. But they were a bit greedy and overzealous in getting web hits for whatever site was hosting the RSVP so they didn't do that and wasted several thousand people's afternoons.

Also, maybe whent they realized this event was going to be so large they could have moved the event to a new, larger location. Yes the setting was pretty picturesque and amazing for everyone thta got in, but I feel bad for anyone who didn't.

One last thing and this might be a bit tougher to swallow, but how many people on line even own a Boredoms album? I mean come on people, most of you have only heard about this band when one of your favorite have name checked them. You just wanted to be there to say you were there.

so basically there was a 20 minute window to arrive if you wanted to get in? The entire admission process was handled wrong long before the NYPD got involved. Let's not scapegoat them.

The city provides the Police for free as a service, and they had nothing to do with the confusion created by moron promoters. It was the promoters who promised people would be admitted on a one in one out basis. Was that coordinated with the city departments they milked for free? Apparently not.

from the NY Times:

"The concert started — can you guess? — around 7:07 p.m., and for nearly two hours the drum corps created oversize rhythms that weren’t as simple as they first seemed."

BV said:

"The Boredoms played...@ 7:07 for about 77 minutes."

Question: Does anyone know exactly how long it lasted? I wasn't really timing it, but I thought that I looked at my watch when it ended and I thought that it was around 8 o'clock, which wouldn't even make it an hour long.

pat, musically, the boredoms suck. im just a sucker for spectacles.

the boredoms show was right up there with branca's hallucination city at world trade center a few years ago.

awesome stuff.

just wanted to add- at 6:30 i saw allison from Awesome Color walking around outside getting water i guess, she was one of the 77 drumers. she was talking to a group of 5 or 6 friends, i was about 10 feet away. and she was saying how she could not do anything to get them in, so you can imagine how hopeless the situation was. I wouldnt pin it all on the organization, part of the blame is those state troopers for sure. i think if it was nyc park rangers or nypd it would have been a little different and more people would have got in. thats just going by how things go down at central park.

I left at 8:30 and they were still playing; still playing when I got to my car 10 minutes later. I am guessing it ended sometime betw. 8:45 and 9.

the show lasted 1 h 42 minutes, it was over at sunset around 8:45. someone recorded the whole show and put it up for download.

It ended at about 9:07pm, give or take a minute or two.

anywhere from 11k-15k, according to a number of reports, rsvped for 4k spots. sorry to hear about being shut out, but maybe the "diehards" should have read that email that went out to all rsvpees the night before, or hisham bharoocha's myspace bulletins-- detailing excessive demand, exactly what time the line began, urging people to show up early, etc. i showed up at 130 and had a great picnic in the park!

anywhere from 11k-15k, according to a number of reports, rsvped for 4k spots. sorry to hear about being shut out, but maybe the "diehards" should have read that email that went out to all rsvpees the night before, or hisham bharoocha's myspace bulletins-- detailing excessive demand, exactly what time the line began, urging people to show up early, etc. i showed up at 130 and had a great picnic in the park!

thanks,everyone. i guess my watch said 9 o'clock and i was just delirious from the fantastic performance. that 1hr and 42 minutes flew.

My friend wandered over to the press line around 4 looking confident. Volunteer asked him if we was "with the press".

"yes" -- VIP bracelet and in instantly. The free beer was awesome!!!

The cops were not dicks. JellyNYC and Vice did not know how to host/control the event and the cops had to intervene. If the promoters continued with their ways, someone could have gotten hurt. The promoters had no idea what to do. The cops needed to step in and provide some authority. Do not blame them, blame the promoters jellynyc and vice.

Anon. at 10:21am: Where is that video download located?

Also, why the heck would someone walk out of the show early? People are dumb.

I don't just blame the po-po but also all of the non-diehards who were lucky enough to get in even though they might not even really like Boredoms and just wanted to be there for an "event." I wasn't in town this weekend but a friend of mine is in BV's first "STILL NOT GETTING IN" photo. Real fans got hosed and that's not fair. That's the one thing that sucks about great outdoor events like this.

I checked my phone about aminute after the finished and it was 8:50, well over 77 minutes but not quite 2 hours.

I met a few people on line that received emails from vice that only had html code but no content. What's up with that?

I considered swimming, but one I figured the cops wouldn't let me in, and two I didn't want to die for this show. The bridge view was a decent alternative.

I checked my phone about a minute after they finished and it was 8:50, well over 77 minutes but not quite 2 hours.

"the show lasted 1 h 42 minutes, it was over at sunset around 8:45."

ah, my bad. Someone told me it was about 77 minutes after the show, and for some reason that stuck in my head even though it makes much more sense that I was outside there for longer than that. fixing. thx.

Also - even for the rare few who managed to get into the park without a VIP bracelet, what did you all do until 7? From outside, the lead in acts sounded like filler. I don't imagine it was that easy to wander around buying sushi and Sappora when you thought you might lose your "seat" to one of the thousands in line.

I don't think wading in the East River is a good idea.

db- can we post that here? i dont want to get that person in trouble.

we saw those crazy fuckers in the canoe from the bridge (that bv took picture of) that was extreme sports right there. we were like "you can do that in the east river?!"

BV,

As one of the lucky 4k that got in (I got there at 1:45 and walked right in to hear the soundcheck, no questions asked, etc. only to get a call from a friend at 3:10 that the lining up had started), it does suck that a lot of people at the show seemed to be there because it was a "cool thing to do", etc.

As someone who RSVP'ed the day the site was announced, it was crazy that as people were being let in, no one asked names/emails of anyone (to double-check the RSVP list). So, it goes to show that even if you RSVP'ed, even if you lined up early as all get out, your spot could have been taken by some douche whose friend called him/her day of and said to meet there early.

The show was still one of the most impressively insane things I've ever seen, even though the synchronized drum circle broke up a whole lot because of non-drum leader ego.

"From outside, the lead in acts sounded like filler"

pretty crappy from the inside too. My wife was saying with all these great musicians in NY actually PRESENT at the show, how did these acts get to open?

As for time-killing it wasn't so bad. We sat down at around 5:15 in our spot. If you have people around you to talk to, it's like a day in the park, tee hee

I'm no "diehard," but my email from the Vice idiots was blank. I hope a satellite falls on their moms. Idiots.

Vice handled the RSVPs, which is where the capacity problem came from - Vice should have shut down RSVPs after 5 or 6 thousand people signed up. Really beautiful event - can't wait to see footage from the bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDFYwJngpU4

to that dude jeff- amazing that of all the posts made so far you are the first to mention they weren't even checking the rsvp list! did not know that. somehow, that pisses me off even more.

there was a film crew on a motorized platform back by the tents, so we might see this on vbs.tv

doubt any actual fans of the band got in cause 100s of comments and still no friggin' setlist.

did they do "acid police"?????

The show was great...a 1 hour 43 minute creation from the BOREDOMS with 74 awesome drummers backing them...I had a great view once inside since I was on the hill by the "stage".

I heard from one of the staff that they received 20,000 RSVPs but were only going to allow in a little over 4,000.

I was #460...I got to the site around 1:45 and the line started forming at around 2:10...There were easily 3-4,000 in line within the first 5-10 minutes.

well how could they check the list? it would have been 50 pages. they would have needed a computer system. that's just obvious. so the whole thing was bullshit. vice didn't have the software or staff for that.

Anon 11:24. VICE enlisted 77 volunteers to assist with the project and show. The only time I saw more than 4 of them the whole time (they were all wearing the yellow shirts with the BOADRUM logo on it), was during soundcheck when they were bringing Starbuck's and bottles of water around.

Oh and one mid-30's dude who was overweight and thus wore his yellow shirt like a neckerchief who helped re-set a cymbal for one of the drummers in the 50's marks.

Something tells me that those 6 dozen volunteers and the State Police could have easily coordinated the check-in/out process.

Maybe they had people RSVP for the sole purpose of getting and idea of how many people they could expect to show up. Seems like an important peice of information, given the circumstances.

Facing a potentially dangerous situation (any gathering of 10k or more people) how can you blame cops for being dicks. Its sort of their job in that situation. If noone was hurt, then they must have done something right. If the only thing that got hurt were people's feelings, well tough titty, deal with it. You got there late.

The idea that a lot of 'fake fans' got in while the 'real fans' didn't is pretty much disproved thanks to that guy who keeps asking for a set list. Too funny.

the view from the brooklyn bridge was okay --amazing aerial view and decently audible drumming, but nothing compared to what it would have been at the park. though this sucked, i feel i was still a part of the event...

would love to see some photos from the bridge folks

Didn't they send out an email to RSVPers that admitted the RSVP response was so overwhelming that the RSVPs were basically meaningless? I mean, duh. It sucks that they didn't adhere to the "one out, one in" policy, but to all the people whining about how nonfans got in while "real fans" didn't, gotta agree with the "tough titties" assessment. If you're such a true fan, then you would have gotten there at 2:00. I, a nonfan, decided a giant drum circle wasn't worth a five-hour wait, so maybe the assembled actually contained more fans than you think. Not to mention the fact that anyone has the right to go see a show, regardless of how fucking dorky they are. Don't be lame. It's a free country.

yeah I agree. I can't say the view from the bridge was good. we just could only see everything in micro size. the noise of cars passing by didn't help. I still wish I was inside. but it was definitely some experience I wouldn't forget whether it's good or bad.

im gonna have to agree with cat 100%..if u were a real fucking fan you would have read the email and realized hey maybe i should get here early..all these people who strolled up at 3 or later were idiots..if the email said (and someone kindly posted the RSVP email on the message boards on this very site) that you can start lining up at 2:30 and they would start letting people in at 4;then get there early..i came before 2:30 strolled inside the park chilled for awhile they then kicked us out and we lined up simple..stop bitching..its the same thing for every free show in the city u get there early..and this whole "fake fan" "real fan" stuff needs to stop because it's just ridic..fan or not it was an event made for everyone to come and enjoy just because werent smart enough to plan accordingly dont take it out on ppl who were gathering way way before did..there were people from like 12 or early just walking around and waiting

bert borum - as far as i know the music was just one piece unique to this performance. so, no set list. there were def. strains of 'vision creation newsun' in there though.

crybaby wankers. I received a hug from a girl in the post-coital minutes after the show ended who had never heard Boredoms before. She was a complete stranger, almost in tears on my shoulder, explaining that her whole world had been turned inside out. I can only imagine that Boredoms would be ecstatic to have more of their "real fans" react like that "fake" one. ps. if you gave a shit, you would have shown up when they said to.

cheers, 12:25

i arrived at 2:45 pm and ended up waiting on line till about 6:15 pm when I was finally let in. when the crowd stood up at the beginning, I moved forward and ended up sitting right next to drummer 52... great performance. I would say yes to an hour and 43 mins... ending at 8:50PM. there are some photos on the last.fm event reviews. http://www.last.fm/event/232669

i brought ear plugs... and i took them out. it was worth it.

i've seen them live over 10 times and i still wouldn't be able to produce a setlist for any of their shows from memory.

does anyone remember when they tried to have this last year @ deitch??

I got there about 6:45, saw the choas, confusion and disorganization at the entrance, saw that little VICE banner, a handful of volunteers with those yellow shirts who all looked like hipsters - and thus - didn't have a clue as to do what to do so they just stood there, and saw the "state-ys" or rangers at said entrance, and thought "this ain't gonna happen" and bolted for the bridge.

I also saw Tunde, the singer from TV on the Radio. First, on the Brooklyn Bridge as I was heading to the park. Then, at the entrance looking as confused as everyone else trying to get in. I was thinking about going up him and saying how much I like his music and how much his band has been an inspiration for my band and my music, which is true, then perhaps befriending him and finding a way in with him but "wrong place, wrong time", and I didn't want to be a leech. Did anyone else see him?

Did anyone else also see Papa Crazyee from Oakley Hall, who used to be Oneida, on the bridge. His former bandmate Kid Millions was one seven drum-leaders and I was surprised Papa Crazyee was not in the park watching him because he still contributes to Oneida's albums even though he's not in band anymore.

And about the cops, "state-ys", rangers ...... they were probably just as pissed off as everyone who counldn't get in because of how JellyNYC and Vice mishandled the situation and they (the authorities) now had to clean up their (the promoters) mess, BUT ...... that doesn't mean they have to be dicks and yell at people and get confrontational with them which is why they ALWAYS get slammed by us as a result of these clusterfucks, and honestly, rightfully so. Knowing that nobody was getting in, they should've told us that by either megaphone, bullhorn, or something but instead, they decided to yell at us to get out of street and didn't realized that we were clogging the streets because no one was doing anything to help our confusion. I mean, they're also human and its our nature to get hostile with someone who instigates it first, but its they're job and duty to deflect our anger and provide solutions for our safety. They DON'T DO THIS, which is why I don't trust them and stay away from them.

I got there about 6:45, saw the choas, confusion and disorganization at the entrance, saw that little VICE banner, a handful of volunteers with those yellow shirts who all looked like hipsters - and thus - didn't have a clue as to do what to do so they just stood there, and saw the "state-ys" or rangers at said entrance, and thought "this ain't gonna happen" and bolted for the bridge.

I also saw Tunde, the singer from TV on the Radio. First, on the Brooklyn Bridge as I was heading to the park. Then, at the entrance looking as confused as everyone else trying to get in. I was thinking about going up him and saying how much I like his music and how much his band has been an inspiration for my band and my music, which is true, then perhaps befriending him and finding a way in with him but "wrong place, wrong time", and I didn't want to be a leech. Did anyone else see him?

Did anyone else also see Papa Crazyee from Oakley Hall, who used to be Oneida, on the bridge. His former bandmate Kid Millions was one seven drum-leaders and I was surprised Papa Crazyee was not in the park watching him because he still contributes to Oneida's albums even though he's not in band anymore.

And about the cops, "state-ys", rangers ...... they were probably just as pissed off as everyone who counldn't get in because of how JellyNYC and Vice mishandled the situation and they (the authorities) now had to clean up their (the promoters) mess, BUT ...... that doesn't mean they have to be dicks and yell at people and get confrontational with them which is why they ALWAYS get slammed by us as a result of these clusterfucks, and honestly, rightfully so. Knowing that nobody was getting in, they should've told us that by either megaphone, bullhorn, or something but instead, they decided to yell at us to get out of street and didn't realized that we were clogging the streets because no one was doing anything to help our confusion. I mean, they're also human and its our nature to get hostile with someone who instigates it first, but its they're job and duty to deflect our anger and provide solutions for our safety. They DON'T DO THIS, which is why I don't trust them and stay away from them.

I guess this is worth repeating again. From VICE's email pre-show:

"the RSVP response has been overwhelming - which means that we CANNOT guarantee admission, except on a first come-first served basis. We cannot overstate this: Not everyone will be allowed in."

sounds like exactly what happened. so why are they the bad guys again? sure, handing out the wristbands right away would have been better, but please, they filled the event with people who were determined to get in by arriving early. earlier than you.

"I received a hug from a girl in the post-coital minutes after the show ended who had never heard Boredoms before. She was a complete stranger, almost in tears on my shoulder, explaining that her whole world had been turned inside out."

it's called cocaino.

"I received a hug from a girl in the post-coital minutes after the show ended who had never heard Boredoms before. She was a complete stranger, almost in tears on my shoulder, explaining that her whole world had been turned inside out."

it's called cocaine.

Lame they didn't let you in. There was TONS of room... it wasn't crowded at ALL in the back.

My full review:
http://scoboco.blogspot.com/2007/07/boredoms-77boadrums-under-brooklyn.html

it's called 'el cocaino' in hispanic and 'cocaine' in inglez.

yeah that would have been grrrreat if the everyone showed up at 2:30 as suggested. that would have been grrrreat planning and everyone would have been happy.

kyp malone at the seaport, now tunde on the bk bridge...it's almost like these guys live in ny or something?!?!?

"it's called cocaine."

or shrooms.

The Vice email should have said:

"Adam Shore loves indulging crazy artists (see movie Dig! for reference) and he got in over his head. He made the mistake of getting connected with these hipster upstart promoters called JellyNYC who really don't know what the fuck they're doing either. In fact, it's a miracle they pulled off their music series last year, and it will be a miracle if someone doesn't die in that pool this Summer. As a result, the RSVP was screwed up, and instead of pretending our computers got hacked, we're going to be honest and tell you we never really knew how to run an RSVP system, it just sounded real official. In light of this retardation, show up as early as you can. Not too early, because the State Park Rangers have already figured out we're amatures, and threatened to pull the plug, so just show up at 2:30 if you RSVP'd even though we don't really know what RSVP stands for. You should just follow those instructions. Speaking of the letters V and P, you might not be shocked to know we have an extended list of people who will cut in front of you. Some of you have received alternate instructions in the form of blank emails, and special computer codes. There could be a riot. We're not sure. We will have over priced beer, and very understated displays from our sponsors, but we can not assure you water or restroom facilities. If you aren't cool enough to be a VIP, or find friends who will allow you to cut in line, or you have to leave the line to take a piss, then you are not our intended audience. Mind you, our intended audience will be partly invisible, so as not to take away from the green space on the lawn, or the coke n' shrooms pit in the corner. Our advice is to find a bridge. It's shaping up to be a great day."

the only really recognizable musical segment, to me at least, was in the last 20 minutes or so, with eye and yoshimi doing the slow call and response, to the effect of 'sunload', which they have done live before, i have recordings of that bit from 2003, which was my second favorite part of the show, the first being when eye banged the trident for the first time. i cant even describe it.

For those complaining about people not receiving the RSVP email, I received mine at 1:15pm on the 7th. When I was already BBQing. Apparently they were sent in REVERSE order to the order you RSVP'd in. Wow.

Wah Wah Wah. Stop complaining. It was free. If you didn't get in you could sit in the nearby park and enjoy the beautiful view of the sun and the bridges. Or you could walk up to the Brooklyn Bridge and enjoy a complete view of the spiral that no one inside could have. Not to get all hippish/John Cage-ish, but the cars whizzing by added to the uniqueness of the situation. Honestly I had more fun showing up at five, sauntering round the neighborhood, and then hearing the music from different areas. Too often our New York mentality of "be right there" ruins enjoyment.

hey Sean Hart and all your ilk -

making the show free doesn't get the organizers off the hook for fucking up and not ORGANIZING!

wtf was up with the RSVP system - seemed so totally pointless and made everything more fucked.

why do places do this? just to get email addresses to sell?

I've been to many many many shows over the years in NYC, laods of them were free and many of them featuring far more famous and in-demand artists than the Boredoms. This was by far THE WORST MANAGED large scale event I have ever witnessed. The promotors should be ashamed of themselves for letting this get where it ended up with so many people angry and frustrated for no reason at all.

Jelly NYC and Vice Records SUCK!

When I see their logos I will now instantly associate them with an entire wasted day.

i had a staff pass and a press pass and the cops told me i couldn't get in until after the show was done. they were enjoying being jerks indeed. the fucked up thing is that i was already in just before they closed off the gate.

i felt even worse for the 5 or so kids that flew in from japan, had credentials, and weren't able to get in. now that is sad.

I thought that the whole point of putting your corporate logo over a free community event was to create good ill associated with your name and product.

If that is the case, then Jelly failed MISERABLY.

I now think of terrible planning, utter ineptitude and extremely unprofessional event coordination when I think of this name.

I've seen country fairs handled more professionally.

I thought that the whole point of putting your corporate logo over a free community event was to create good will associated with your name and product.

If that is the case, then Jelly failed MISERABLY.

I now think of terrible planning, utter ineptitude and extremely unprofessional event coordination when I think of this name.

I've seen country fairs handled more professionally.

"i felt even worse for the 5 or so kids that flew in from japan, had credentials, and weren't able to get in. now that is sad."

Good. Maybe if friends of the bands got screwed then finally heads will roll over at Vice/Jelly.

fucking jackasses. wtf were these promoters thinking?

watching from the bridge was sick.

Anyone else see Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's? I saw him outside of Starbucks around the corner, after the show.

BTW - showed up at 2:45, waited in line, got in. That easy. You snooze you looze nyc! Crazy to think if I got there 15 minutes later i wouldn't have made it. sorry for all the peeps who missed it. it was amazing!

The fucked up thing was, even if you got there early, you may have been screwed. I strolled in at 2:15PM with my mate through the back enterance (thinking it was the only entrance). We chilled out on the lawn and got to see them practice (awesome) for 15 minutes when a volunteer told us that they are clearing the park and we have to get in line "over there..."

Suddenly, where there were no people 20 minutes ago, there were well over a thousand! We sat in line in front of the playground for nearly two hours wondering if, in spite of our punctuality, we had missed a meager 15 minute window on the other side of the fucking park!

Yeah, bad management. It also didn't help that people were cutting in line all over the place. Even when cutters were pointed out to the volunteers, they didn't give a damn. I even saw a group of 4 or 5 people excitedly put on braclets they just bought at a Dwayne Reede, high five each other, then cut and walk right in.

there was a dude from australian that did not get in. he got fucked in the ass.

there was a dude from australian that did not get in. he got fucked in the ass.

I've very little doubt that this event was indeed memorable in wide and varied ways. For one who was remanded to a Midtown office building this past Saturday (full of decidedly non-Boredoms fans)it would appear that attendance was akin to the invasion of Normandy: some people didn't make it off the beach.

However I must say that the pictures have left me somewhat underwhelmed. I suppose it was when I saw the diagram of the drum spiral terminating with the Boredoms at its apex that my imagination was sparked like a cosmic crack pipe...I pictured the audience and musicians sequestered within a completely immersive environmental nautilus. As the performance progressed a shunt would be wedged between the lips of a fiery vortex by the awesome power of synchronized percussion that would sweep all involved to the outermost reaches of the Milky Way while simultaneously freeing a diminutive sliver of the New York housing market.

Instead it would seem that I could have sponsored a similar event without the help of either Vice or JellyNYC. I reckon I could arrange 74 drummers in my aunt and uncle's back yard in Clearwater Florida and set the Japanese foreign exchange students entrusted to their care right in the middle of them.

agreed, you snooze you loose. free concert? nothing is free in life. you pay with disappointment and regret, for not organizing your day better. don't count on promoters to hand you first class treatment. they are just trying to put an idea together and grow their business. that's nature. there's no first class in nyc. ask any mta commuter. we all know that.

"there's no first class in nyc."

oh come on - here in the land of the VIP list?

of course tons of people showed up because it was the cool thing to do, but that doesn't mean they got less from the music than a diehard boredom's fan. I didn't get in, but I sat near Brooklyn Ice Cream Company and could get a sense of what was going on, it was fantastic and I still had a good time. I usually am not so positive about nyc, but that there is such interest and support for an art/sound project like that is fantastic, something of that scale would not happen in many places in this world. Th bitchy about not real fans just seems to me a bunch of people pissy that there noise band that they thought made them so special and unique, is something lots of people are into. I mean if you didn't get in that sucks, but hopefully art and expression is about more than just you. So to hell with that lame insecure elitism, free events are about sharing art, if that got the boredoms some new fans, great maybe they will be able to do more large scale projects in the future, if that's where Eye's vision takes him.

The view and experience from the bridge was charming for a while, but really claustorphobic and uncomfortable. There were large stretches where no audio made it over the rumble of the tail end of a Friday rush hour. The view from above made it look like they were playing child sized drum kits, honestly.

One more thing, I just came from the MC Hammer, MC Lyte, Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh show, where at least 15,000 people filled a football field. The line was more then three times as long as 77 Drum. It was absurd long....but EVERYONE got in, even WITH a Hip Hop appropriate security pat down from Islamic Security provided by a local mosque. Oh, and yeah, this was in one of the last low cost neighborhoods left in Brooklyn that's yet to go through gentrification...meaning the crowd had NYPD out in force. We're not talking condo lofts, we're talking Section8 housing, and this event served the community, so families had something cool to do on a hot Summer night. The whole thing went down without incident. The difference was experienced promoters, community groups, city officials making proclamations, and oh yeah, experienced promoters. It was night and day. What did that sponsorship money go towards, aside from airfare from Japan?

I worked at this and Jelly NYC realized how fucked they were when the park was 2/3rds filled at 11 in the morning for the drum practice.

VBS taped the whole thing and I'm pretty certain it will be a DVD on Vice. I like when I heard Vice people (who are incredibly nice and I don't want them to take any of this personally) telling security to rip cameras out of hands. And then the lady from Jelly Nyc prompted the volunteers to alert security of any cameras because the boredoms were against them for "religious reasons".

The main-main-main point of this is, has anyone noticed that Jelly NYC is >>>>NOT<<<< a non-profit organization and are not credible taste wise at all. Remember that commercial where Jordan downed a sparks and dunked over OOIOO?

Hey guys? Maybe you should pay volunteers a lousy $50 each and not make it so damn righteous to go handing out bracelets to people I know to be big Boredoms fans and my friends? Maybe swap that for a few cases of comp sparks or something?

The single solitary worst part about this was this was the SOLE Boredoms east coast show, probably for this year. How bout this...JELLY SHOULD THROW ANOTHER FREE BOREDOMS SHOW TO APOLOGIZE! DO IT!

I cashed in all my good karma to get into that show... It was worth it...

That's the drawback with these concept showcases. I wanted to see them, even had a convenient place to stay, but had to make money instead, and probably couldn't have gotten in. Last time I saw Boredoms ('99) I was one of maybe 200 people in a club (that's all it would hold), and in those days Boredoms would actually have tours, but now a US visit is maybe 6 cities. Great group, one of the finest on this planet or any other.