more bootlegs

If you can get over the ancient html design eye-sore, this site has quite the selection. Scroll a bit down and look to the right to see the complete archive and then a little further down for the healthy list of artists.

Today I received an email from a friend who told me that they just heard Akron Family for the first time and did not know how they could have been missing out on this experience for so long.

As most of you know, when this band is mentioned my heart swells (not in that aforementioned gay way) because I too remember a time before I had heard or could hear the aura that is AK. The first album I got was the Self-Titled with Angels of Light on a Lex recommendation (Thank you Lex for all of them). I was not ready to hear it though, giving it two tries before tossing it into the cd cabinet. One day I was studying for a final at UCLA and I for some reason (God) popped it into the cd player. It clicked. My brain had evolved enough to comprehend it. By “Future Myth” I was dancing alone in my living room. 4 months later found me with 7 other friends watching the show of our lives within the Troubador. That was it. My life has truly never been the same since that moment. I was transformed. I am not kidding. In most days I can close my eyes and still go back to that 2 1/2 hr session. Ever since then I (actaully we) have been doing 4 shows a month (at least), trying (sometimes successfully) to recapture that feeling that we now know exists. I never knew what life was like to not have a personal thought for 2 1/2 hrs. Sometime people look at me weird when I get all excited about them like Sunday night for example. But that is just 1/16 of the energy which my soul was filled with during that particular performance. 

This interview is about how love is simple and ed is a portal.

During their shows, we are all ed and they are the portal.

Some of you did not get the last bootleg link I put up. Here it is: Daytrotter Akron Family Bootlegs

Lately, I am working hard at my “real job” responsibilities, but I promise to have the site reorganized and reviews of Warpaint and Asobi Seksu up on the site by next week.

So for now, you should download this Akron Family bootleg: Capt. AKAK hearts AK bootlegs. Particularly the first session which is 15 minutes of bliss. It is a mystery as to whether or not these songs will appear on their new album which is currently being recorded. But everyone who saw them play on my birthday should remember these tunes. I am currently listening to it while writing this post and lets just say that the energy that my fingers are relying on to move is not coming from within me, but from the song.

Here is a video of the second bootleg….also recorded the same week in Austin, Tx.

 
No. 7: Akron/Family “They Will Appear, Behold” from Retread Sessions on Vimeo.

~Capt AKAK