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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Last Night at the Neptune, Baths Made Everyone's Glands Go Nuts

Posted by on Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:25 PM

Baths, aka a kid from the San Fernando Valley named Will Wiesenfeld, played a giddy, sweaty, I-can't-believe-you-came-out-to-see-me sort of set last night at the Neptune to a crowd of very giddy people. He looks sort of like a dorky hedgehog, he's 21, and he makes electronic music that makes your endocrine system go crazy, as Trent Moorman points out in his column this week. Makes all your glands go nuts. Here's a far-away and kind of blurry iPhone photo taken by a lovely young woman named Morgan:

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Looks boring, I know. But it totally wasn't! He's moving around so much it's not boring. It's like watching a drummer. He's doing so many things at once. He's singing and playing one of these, twisting and flipping knobs, constantly pulling back his hands like he's just burned himself and collapsing behind his setup like his knees just gave out—collapsing with the beat.

"Computers!" he said at a particularly beautiful moment. Later, he ran off stage and came back with a towel and took off his glasses and wiped his face and said, "Towels!" And then, "It's about to get really sloppy in here." It got sloppy for at least one audience member, an audience member who also happens to excel in whistling, so much so that Wiesenfeld said, "Someone in this crowd went to college for whistling. That's a lot."

Someone else at the show, who happened to be Trent Moorman, added, "Someone sounds like a fucking orca whale in the crowd. Did you hear him? Jesus."

At the end of the set, some guy jumped onstage to high-five Baths, and then security guys materialized but, instead of escorting the guy off stage, just pushed him back into the crowd. Baths walked off stage and came right back. "I didn't want to wait super long and feel like a dick," he explained. "That whole thing is so weird," he added, about encores. "My encore steez is like 10 seconds."

 

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Masi 1
Sorry to have missed this. Thanks for review.

I was hoping this would have tied into the stereochemistry notes, but the orca will do.
Posted by Masi on December 10, 2011 at 4:05 PM
biffp 2
The Neptune is fantastic. I'm so in love with the new venue. The National were great, and Black Joe Lewis rocked. Love it, but we need a new bar in the neighborhood for before and after.
Posted by biffp on December 10, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Trent Moorman 3
Such a great show. I was surprised how much I liked it. I mean, I knew I would like it, just not that much. "Lovely Bloodflow" was highlight for me. When he pulls the high ends, and bends into muffle-phased/city-wombs on the Akai, he gets amphibian.

Going to be fun to follow Will through the next few years to see where he takes it.

2-- What about Flowers?

Posted by Trent Moorman on December 10, 2011 at 5:29 PM
Simone 4
I wish I hadn't missed this due to a cold but also I still would have missed it as the neptune ads said that the show was on December 3. Obviously the website and a few other places had the correct date but the printed ad got the date wrong.
Posted by Simone on December 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM
biffp 5
Flowers is meh. Could be okay, but it's ridiculous how long you wait for service, drinks, food.
Posted by biffp on December 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM

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