Bucci’s Escape from New York: Golden Triangle, S-S-S-Spectres, Falcon and the Snowman, The Assault

Dear friends,

As many of you may well know, a dear dear friend, very dear in my heaving busom,… Bucci, former leader of Austin noise rockerz Enduro, current member of Falcon and the Snowman, renowned play-write, Brooklyn College professor, and, above all, my roommate, is abandoning us in New York for the mistier pastures of Seattle because he wants to get in on the ground floor of an emerging youth culture phenomenon that he says has been “in bloom” all over the woods of the Pacific Northwest….

He calls it “grunge“….

Like other subcultures, the young people who identify with “grunge” can be easily identified by more than merely a common mindset and lexicon, but also by their choice of attire and music, so Bucci says. He continued to explain that “grungers” like himself can be easily identified by long dirty hair, flannel shirts, and ripped jeans. He elaborated that the music of this young subculture is a tongue-and-cheek post-hardcore style characterized by distorted guitars, heavy drumming, and screamed vocals. Then he put down the bong and started on some unintelligible mumbo-jumbo rant about “fuzz” and “wah” and “The Stooges,” “Melvins heavyness,” “catchy riffs and chorsuses like Kiss,” “the dirty Poison 13-style garage blues,” “the depravity of Lubricated Goat,” and so forth.

I have no idea what the heck he’s talking about or why anyone would want to listen to, or for that matter, play, this kind of music, I nonetheless wish him well on his journey even though I want him to just take some responsibility and start working towards a career and quit being so cynical and think about his future instead of just living for the moment. And, most of all, I wish his life included a little more bathing and a little less ironic conversations about serial killersTV commercials of his youth. But he tells me its just a “Generation X” thing and boomers like me just don’t get it – and I don’t,… particularly when he requests that I touch him when he’s sick.

But this is getting way off track. The point is that, to give our main man a proper send-off, New York Night Train and Bucci’s friends have enlisted Brooklyn’s grungiest spot, Glasslands Gallery and rounded up Bucci’s favorite grunge bands and DJs. At his request, there’ll be moshing, stage diving, heroin, and high-ish quality Italian-style coffee. We’ve even changed the weather to a Pacific Northwest overcast for ambience.

Enjoy…

Bucci’s Escape from New York
with performances by:
Golden Triangle(9)
S-S-S-Spectres (10)
Falcon and the Snowman (11)
The Assault (12)
and DJs…
EDELWEISS (AKA Rock Critic Chuck Eddy - 8pm)

Set the Night on Fire
and…
me - between sets

Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave (btw South 1st and South 2nd)
On the beautiful Williamsburg waterfront, Brooklyn