Deleted Waveform Gatherings at Arlene's Grocery - October 20, 2007

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When I started this blog...I figured it would be easy...upload the photos...write a few words, etc. Well, its been harder than I thought. Plus...real life gets in the way.

Anyway, this was the last night of CMJ...I was tired...I'd heard more bands in one week than I had in years. When Deleted Waveform Gatherings hit the stage I thought...okay, another Rainbow Quartz band (even I get jaded sometimes!) Within seconds of them hitting the stage there's all this action going on in the audience...beautiful Norwegian women with dreadlocks, low cut sweaters lots of cleavage, video cameras...what looks to be a six foot four 250 lb Norwegian football player sticking his digicam within 5 inches of Deleted Waveform Gatherings members faces and flash, flash, flash! By the end of the first song...the roar of hundreds in Norwegian (well, it was probably more like seven, but it sounded like hundreds!) My friend Jim, always the typical New Yorker (Brooklyn to be exact) says "that's easy for you to say!" I think his comment was lost on this crowd. At that point, I knew it didn't matter how tired or jaded I was...I had to get in there and see what was going on. Did I say this band is from Norway? At the end of their set...I was ready to pack up all my stuff...and get on the next Greyhound Bus to Oslo. These people know how to have fun!

Deleted Waveform Gatherings was one of the high points of CMJ for me (I know, I know, I love everyone...but this blog is mine, and it isn't a review site...its just a place for me to share my photos, and express my love for live music). I heard little bits and pieces of so many bands I love...Sell Out era Who, Teenage Fanclub, Small Faces. I hate making comparisons to other groups...but nothing is really original anymore (well, Daisy Chainsaw was, but that was 15 years ago). And this band takes all these sounds and makes it their own.

At the end of their set...I'd usually make a beeline for the band to give them my card, but what the hell...I made a beeline for the most beautiful Norwegian dreadlocked girl I saw (my other reason for wanting to move to Norway). Hi Tonje...here are some photos...can I see the video you took sometime?

Deleted Waveform Gatherings are: ØYVIND HOLM -
vox, guitar, piano, mandolin, soundeffects, perc

HOGNE GALÅEN -
guitar, back. vox

ANBJØRN VIEM -
keyboards, melodica, mandolin, back. violin, vox

ROBERT SKJÆRVIK -
bass

FREDDY BOLSØ -
drums

Look for their CD Complicated View on Rainbow Quartz records (I got mine!)