People have been stopping me in the street and asking me ” When are Devin Gary & Ross playing out again?” Well, the answer is that we will be playing Shea Stadium in Brooklyn on the 7th of September with Phil C Yeh and Burning Star Core. We are not on the site calendar yet, but swinging a bunch of axes on deck.
http://sheastadiumbk.blogspot.com/
Eno- Baby’s On Fire- Here Come the Warm Jets
Beefheart and the Magic Band- Click Clack- Spotlight Kid
The Mothers of Invention- Jelly Roll Gumdrop- Ruben and the Jets
Cream- Tales of Brave Ulysses- Disraeli Gears
Pere Ubu- Thriller- Dub Housing
The Rolling Stones- Flight 505- Aftermath
The Jefferson Airplane- Coming Back to Me- Surrealistic Pillow
The Beach Boys- She’s Going Bald- Smiley Smile
Ornette Coleman- What Reason Could I Give?- Science Fiction
Todd Dockstader- Scene of the Crime- Bijou
I think that I can speak for the both of us and not be demure and say that Devin Flynn and I are stoked about the swell review of our record “Devin and Gary Go Outside” penned by CHIZZLY ST. CLAW on the TINYMIXTAPE blog, even though there is the ‘Gary and David’ typo. It doesn’t matter. Thanks very much!
I would just like to say to CHIZZLY that we are DEVIN GARY & ROSS, now, and working on a new psychedelic record and that now we are a lot more swirlier than before, when it was only Devin and me, because three people swirling is a third more swirly than two and just maybe more than the sum of the swirl and that I hope that you will be stoked when you eventually hear it!
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Gary-Panter-Devin-Flynn-Gary-David-Go-Outside
In early POP ART books, Peter Saul’s work is most often represented by a painting of oranges, cut in half, running around firing guns indiscriminately in the company of money, rendered in bright oil paint colors and slashes. He says that he was trying to paint like De Kooning.
De Kooning had been ruling the world of painting for half a decade already, way back then, with his lavish calligraphic arm-long gorgeous linear sweeps and lovely color overlays– with his big fat ABSTRACT paintings. He had out bravura’d Picasso, a major road block in the way of painter’s ambitions since the first decades of the 20th century. Plus, De Kooning had re-introduced figuration into the newly established church of abstraction and the nudes were ugly and insulting to women. De Kooning parked his paintwagon in the middle of the art highway and there was a traffic jam. Everyone was honking the horn.
So Peter Saul gets out of his fucking ice-cream wagon and out flails and outsmears and out color-composes De Kooning and not only kicks DeKooning’s ass in the abstraction domain, but opens a Pandora’s box, a Fibber McGee’s closet, of obscene, slanderous, jaw-dropping satirical pictorial indictments of humanity. Guns, ducks, nudes, soldiers, jet fighters, bombs, pirates, stagecoaches, Roman centurions, swans, cupckes, exploding subway cars, bridges twisting like licorish whips, Chairman Mao, Hitler, Andy Warhol and Stalin slugging it out. He not only insulted women he insults everyone on planet earth–all of humanity. Everything we hold dear. Yet, we are not hurt. This critical alchemy might serve as a lesson for all sensitivities. Or not.
Peter is a nice guy, but he is not going to protect you from yourself, or me either. If you don’t know his work you are in for an electrocution of your sense of what is funny and profound. It’s not for everybody. Peter could care less. He has his own ice-cream truck, metaphorically speaking, and he is one of the best painters in the world and folks know it.
Thursday August 19, 7 PM Gary Panter and PETER SAUL in conversation with Keith Mayerson Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members, Manhattan
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