It was 7 years ago when Bloodclot bought me my first Tortoise album, A Million Now Living Will Never Die. We proceed to cruise the Pacific Coast Highway at approximately 60 miles per hour along the Huntington/Newport Coast. The opening sang off this album is roughly 25 minutes long and was the only song listened to for this particular drive. My life was expanded into an entirely different universe since then. I had no idea music like this existed; electronic in a way but way more organic in nature. The music which is at the heart of the post-rock genre. Over the course of the next two years, I became obsessed with all post rock bands: Tortoise, Slint, Isotope 217, Godspeed!, Trans Am, etc. I have more than 20 albums in which John McEntire plays drums/produced. Frequently, I would play a Tortoise album in my car and end up getting lost on my way home from falling into the K hole that is their sound frequency.

About two years ago, me and about 6 of you were able to see Tortoise live for the first time at the El Rey. I am very excited to be afforded the pleasure of seeing them again for the tour of their new album, Beacons of Ancestorship, due out June 23rd.

Two Drummers plus Jeff Parker on Guitar……lots of energy and fun. And also you know Johnny Mc is the greatest drummer ever in my humble opinion.

Ten Tickets @ $29 a piece.

1. Capt AKAK
2. Capt Shabbin
3. Willum
4. mRoyed
5. Hello Kitty
6. ebee
7. Angel
8. WB Records Friend
9. MartotheLyn
10. ??

Life has meaning again for me. The mantra of the day most days is to live in the moment, but my philosophy is one of enjoying the moment while being excited about what the future holds. For me, having an Akron/Family concert on schedule for the near future is something that propels me through the doldrums of work. The El Rey is big step up for the psychedelic, freak folk indie rock band known as AK. If you have not been to one their epic performance I hope you will take an evening to experience a force of energy unlike any other.

Here is the closer from their last time the TSS crew ventured to see them at the Steve Allen Theater.

Akron Family – “Woody Guthrie’s America” from Capt. AKAK on Vimeo.

I have six tickets. $24 dollars a piece.

1. Capt AKAK
2. Mroyed
3. JP
4. Karen
5. Capt Shabbin
6. KB

Other Peepz:

1. Sean
2. Amanda
3. ALHP
4. Chabs
5. Ebee
6. Amelia
7. J WYA
8. Matt
9. Timstrument
10. Michele I
11. Courtney C.

To buy more tickets go here: Ticketmaster Portal

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

Best minute-fifty of your life (other than sex with me)

Ok. So I am exhausted. But I had to post this up here. I hope everyone is enjoying this little gathering of the musical minds so far. I am meeting with a programmer friend on Thursday night to continue to conceptualize the layout and overall interactivity of the website.

Now to the Meat and Potatoes. The collective minds of McEntire, Prewitt, Prekop, and Claridge also known as The Sea and Cake are coming back to town. For those of you who were not in attendence two years ago for their last troubadour appearance, I feel sorry for you. It was the old soldier Alexis Remillard’s last concert before moving to Pennsylvannia (jesus christ I owe that man so much). I first heard Sea and Cake with Lex during one of our “drives” after the wednesday night meeting. The meeting would end and a few of us would dash out to the car, driving off with no apparent destination, listening with the utmost silence. I miss those days like the first time I chased the dragon.

Well, that album was the The Biz: song two Leeora changed it all for me with a sweet lead into The Kiss; Consequently, seeing The Sea and Cake for the first time two years was a really big deal. But it definitely does not make this any less of a big thing, particularly when we all get to go and experience it together as one.

I got 13 tickets at $23 after tax, tip and ticketmaster ass rape fees.

1. Bobby (aka Capt AKAK)
2. Bruce (aka Stone junkie)
3. Jeff (aka Alcopolik)
4. Kai (aka woman who does not know how to use internet explorer)
5. Erik B
6. Matt (aka Mroyed)
7. Luisa (aka ALHP)
8. Mr. Harrison
9. Melody (aka Chabby)
10. Shab’s GF
11. Justin Shabbaz (aka the guy I am going to kill if he does not visit this site)
12. Megan (aka “my” NewMonkey)
13. Chuck (aka CoolFatGuy)

I love you guys.

~Capt AKAK

PS. I honestly had a spiritual experience during the first show, while seeing John McEntire play drums, I realized that God gave us all talents and if we use these talents then God will in fact flow through us and we will be a conduit of energy flowing into all of us. It was like he was not even there playing, but some great force was hitting the drums with perfect crestendos in unmatched Synchronism. Wierd I know, but that is the god’s honest truth.