I just stumbled upon one of my old Black Dice 7"s and gave it a spin a few minutes ago. Man, their early stuff up until Cold Hands is still pretty killer. A lot of people don't even know now, but BD layed down some serious Void meets Harry Pussy style jams back in the day.
One of the best shows I've ever seen was Black Dice in Philly at some music fest about 9 years ago...they K I L L E D it. Raging hardcore set that was about 7 minutes long. A garbage can flew over the crowd a few times, some bread got thrown around, some kids got scared shitless.
After the show, a sizeable gang of about 7 "emo" kids (remember early '00 emo kids?? no eyeliner!!!) and lectured them on how their music and stage antics were not welcome in the hardcore scene. Still think that was an amazing moment in music for me. The singer dude said he will do whatever he wants to do, then the emo kids sulked off...gold.
Here's a link to the only youtube clip I could find of earlier Black Dice....this is a bit more in the TMU era of the band, but still captures that original rawness. I have a full VHS of this set and the guitarist totally sounds off on the soundguy at the end for not doing a good job with their vocals...amazing!!!
Wow!!!I love this 7".Of course I love all stuff of BD though.
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