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Another Cowboy Trilogy

part one

Timo Ellis & Friends: Pterodactyl, Bird of Doom

Timo Ellis and Duma Love

 

I missed Timo's show last time. I went to see Yuka Honda at the same place, Tonic, but couldn't make it to Timo's show. so I was happy to see him playing his own music.

I saw Timo coming out after sound-checking, and he recognized me( I saw Timo at Yuka's show and he was very very very nice), and said hi. Timo told me that Yuka would be at the show. So Yuka was a special guest!!! I was happy that I was able to catch Yuka joining that night's show. I was really curious what kind of music Timo would be playing and how it would be.

 

Un Cuerpo Exquisito opened at first. The flyer of the Tonic said that it's Marguerite Salaveria's "emo-libido"project which I hadn't heard of before. They were very fun and seemed to be really enjoying themselves. The singer girl even did a little strip show at the end.( don't be sad about missing that. the audience only could see her back with her teletubies panty.) and then changed to a black dress, so that she could use her thighs and her shoulders to play. A little bit shocking( just because of her teletubies) but fun show.

Next, Adam Green whose name was not on the flyer(so I thought he was the guy from Dopo Yume at first) appeared and did three part of his thing. He read poems( or stories?) and sang his songs and he was pretty fun, too.

Dopo Yume( the flyer introduced his show as "Jordan Galland's pop/hip hop confections") appeared on the stage with Timo on guitar and Yuka on piano. They got their videos projected on the back, and surprisingly, I was able to see Sean in one of the videos. He kept licking a big lolli-pop and it was so cute, it made me smile...Jordan Galland of Dopo Yume was funny. His voice and music kind of reminded me of Sean's. After the show, I asked Yuka where Sean is spinning on the next day, and she told me she already wrote the info down all over the places( I dodnt understand what she meant by that, but after I got home, I found Yuka's message, literally, all over the places at the Cibo Matto Message Board).

FInally, Timo and his band, Pterodactyl, Bird of Doom (with Duma Love, David Muller, Japa Keenon)came up on the stage. They also got a super mario video game projected on the wall. This time, Yuka was sitting as an audience. Duma was singing like crying and screaming. Timo played his guitar very passionately, so he broke several strings of his guitar(wow. he played with three or four strings for a while until the song they were playing ended). Their music was really loud and explosively heavy-metal with hard rock kind of thing, and I enjoyed their show so much. As I remember, they played their music without stopping to the end, except for when Timo had to get other guitar because of the broken strings. Anyway, I had never listened to that hard-heavy metal in my life and it was very very cool.

So now I know why Yuka and Miho say Timo is one of the metal heads in the Cibo Matto(with Sean). With other artists' shows before Timo's and Yuka's suprising appearance(well, to me) and Timo and Duma's awesome job, I went home happily and God, Timo was so good and I read that Timo will be playing his own stuff someday at Cibo Matto tour somewhere. I cannot wait for his own album to come out!

*my part two of another cowboy trilogy will be available in two days, so please come back in Sep,21. Thank you.

*Part Two : "Sean Lennon at the SPA"

 

 

 

Timo with Jordan of Dopo Yume

 

Duma Love

Jordan Galland of Dopo Yume with his video(Sean Lennon licking a big lolli-pop)

all photos by Sujin Lee, 2000

 

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