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The Jesus Lizard @ ATP NY 2009 - pics

photos by Ryan Muir

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Make Major Moves: When we’ve talked in the past, I remember you saying that there was no way the Jesus Lizard would ever reunite — mostly because you didn’t think [drummer] Mac [McNeilly] would do it. And you said the same thing about Scratch Acid, and then Scratch Acid did that little reunion in ’06

David Yow: Well, I think that doing the Scratch Acid thing helped me learn to quit saying never, because I used to say never all the time and I think that it’s bitten me in the ass a few times and made me look kinda foolish. I’m not even certain how this came about. I guess [guitarist] Duane [Denison] had played with Mike Patton, and Mike was curating All Tomorrow’s Parties in England and he asked Duane if we could get our shit together to play ATP. So there was e-mail going around and stuff…and Mac said he was into it, but there wasn’t time from the point that Mac said okay until the ATP thing, so we just kinda blew it off. And then Touch & Go started talking about wanting to do these reissues [of the first four Jesus Lizard albums] with all this extra stuff and we thought, “Well, what the fuck? Okay, let’s do some shows.” And originally it was just gonna be like three or four shows and it’s built up into a total of 35 or 40.

The Jesus Lizard headlined the first night of the ATP festival at Kutscher’s in Monticello, NY last night (9/11). More about their set shortly. More pictures from it below…

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