Boredoms 88BOADRUM Los Angeles 88-drummer Line-up
PHOTO: Last year’s 77BOADRUM in NYC. No photo available for 88BOADRUM, which will feature 14% more drummers, as it has not yet happened. (Credit: Vice)
This Friday’s 88BOADRUM event at the La Brea Tar Pits is “sold out”—but don’t worry if you forgot to pick up your free tickets. With this many drummers playing at once, you’ll be able to hear it for blocks around. Let’s only hope that the curators at nearby LACMA haven’t taken the Ming vases out of storage after last week’s earthquake.
Looking down the line-up, in amongst the drummer from the obvious bands for this type of thing (Mika Miko, the Fucking Champs, Samhain), you might notice some odd men and women out: Tennessee Thomas from the Like, Patty Schemel from Hole, the drummer from Jawbreaker, and even some session dude from Link Wray’s recordings! I guess Hisham Bharoocha (ex-Lightning Bolt), the “artistic director” for the LA event alongside the Boredoms themselves, just found every eligible drummer with skills that he could, then slapped them together in time to have eighty-eight drummers all playing tomorrow, on 8/8/08, at 8:08 p.m. And if the list is strained, well, they have another 88 drummers in Brooklyn doing the same thing.
Given the flakiness of musicians in general, I would not be at all surprised to find that someone from the list flakes out at the last minute, leaving the event with a very bad numerological stamp that some lucky drummer in the audience might have to fill!
Here’s the L.A. line-up:
- Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle)
- Zach Hill (Hella)
- Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat)
- Kid Millions (Oneida)
- Dave Nuss (No-Neck Blues Band, Under Satan’s Sun)
- Christopher Powell (Icy Demons, Man Man)
- Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear)
- Warren Huegel (Tussle)
- Dustin Donaldson (I Am Spoonbender, Link Wray, Thought Industry)
- Derek James (Entrance)
- Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, All Smiles, The Black Heart Procession)
- Tim Soete (The Fucking Champs)
- Michael Tapper (We Are Scientists)
- Adam Pfahler (Jawbreaker)
- Claude Collins-Stracensky
- Sara Lund (Unwound)
- Matthew Hartman (Sic Alps)
- Chris Moore (Negative Approach)
- Abby Ball
- Ryan Huber
- Geoff Soule (FUCK, Tara Jane O’neil)
- John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees)
- Shahin Motia (Oneida, Ex Models, Knyfe Hyts)
- Alexis Garapulos (Arp, Expanding Headband)
- Katelyn Hall (Mika Miko)
- David Janik (Company)
- Michael Henrickson (Evolutionary Jass Band)
- Tom Recchion
- Michael Bulington
- Trent Moorman (Head Like a Kite, The Saturday Knights)
- Brian Dwyer (Papertrigger)
- Damon Eliza Palermo (Mi Ami)
- Michael Catano
- Vice Cooler (xbxrx, Hawnay Troof)
- Andy Connors (ex-A Minor Forest, Lumen)
- Weasel Walter (xbxrx)
- Adam Baz (Evangelista, Ohioan, Nightwonds)
- Dave Aron (Koi Pond)
- Pete Vogl (Koi Pond)
- Robin Easton
- Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)
- Gregory Rogove (Priestbird)
- Jonathan Holland (Tussle)
- Brendan Fowler (BARR, Car Clutch)
- Adam Autry
- Anthony Petrovic (Ezeetiger, The Drums)
- Rob Barber (High Places)
- Dan Rowan (Foot Village)
- Grace Lee (Foot Village)
- Jason Adam Baker (Necking)
- Andrew Neuhues
- Sandra Vu (Midnight Movies)
- Than Luu (Black Gold, M. Ward, Adam Franklin)
- Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas)
- Brian Miller (Foot Village)
- Ryan Pritts (Paik, Bolmongani)
- Gabie Strong
- Jessica Espeleta
- Patty Schemel (Hole, Juliette Lewis, Pink)
- Roy Tatum (Wives)
- London May (Samhain, Dag Nasty)
- Wendy Shuey
- Paul Quattrone (!!!, Modey Lemon, Midnite Snake)
- Josh Taylor (Foot Village, Friends Forever)
- Sarah Anderson (Lucky Dragons)
- James Jolliff (Brother Reade)
- Brian Girgus (lowercase, Track Star)
- Yoshi Nakamoto (The Aislers Set)
- Nora Brank
- Chris Hathwell (Moving Units)
- Kevin Stuart (Crystal Antlers)
- Damian Edwards (Crystal Antlers)
- Bianca Sparta (Erase Errata)
- Michael La Franchi (Giant Drag, Let’s Go Sailing)
- Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
- Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus)
- Diva Dompe (Black Black)
- Tennessee Thomas (The Like)
- Erin Garcia (Brother Reade)
- Steven McCarty (Dead Meadow)
- Joachim Cooder
- Mike Sord Gard (M. Sord)
- Aaron Sperske (Beachwood Sparks)
- Sara Diaz
- Wendy Farina
- Greg Fox (Pink Mountain, Family of Love)
- David Horvitz (Black Flag, Crass, Germs, Dag Nasty)
