Triple Door: The remaining members of Sun City Girls (Alan and Richard Bishop) performed a tribute to departed brother, drummer, and scientist, Charles Gocher, who passed away last year after a bout with cancer.

A gangly show it was. The evening started with a forty minute film of Gocher’s video experiments. They are excruciatingly anomalous, hilarious, and schizophrenic sketches of poetry and visual layering. One shows a sex ed. film of a woman’s ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus on a screen. An animal skull with antlers is dangled by a hand over top of it. The shapes line up. The skull matching the uterus and the antlers over the fallopian tubes. Big block letters were on the screen the entire scene which read: EAT MY FUCK.

After the film, Alan and Richard Bishop performed two acoustic sets of Sun City Girls songs honoring Gocher and the band’s twenty-seven year history. They growled and screeched and sipped and summoned. The audience partook and responded. Requests were made. Someone yelled, “Play a Tom Petty song, ‘Free Falling’!”

The Bishops laughed and snarled back, “Someone is fucking requesting a Tom Petty song. Yeah, these are all Tom Petty songs.” At the end of the first set, Alan Bishop opened a decorative box that had been on the table in between them. He arranged something onto a small dish or tray, got up, paced the edge of the stage searching for a place to stand, then blew a powdery substance into the crowd. I think it was Gocher’s ashes.

Here is Mr. Gocher for you now: