Free Slants show & Chinese art gallery show this Friday!

[Simon Young]

The Bamboo Grove, aka Zhu Lin, is throwing a party for the Portaldn Art Musuem's China Design Now exhibit and will be featuring:

- New art paintings by Gabe Weiss
- Photos by Liang Liang
- Kung Fu, Qi Gong, and Acupuncture demos
- Chinese brush and ink lessons
- Explanation of the classic game of "Go"
- and a special one hour concert by THE SLANTS!

It's all FREE and ALL-AGES!
Friday, Nov. 6th at the Bamboo Grove Salon on SE 2nd, between Salom and Taylor
www.bamboogrovesalon.com for more information

[xcthulhux]

i might be going to this.

[Mr Silmero]

Considering I completely missed your Halloween show (Can't believe I forgot that) I will totally be going to this.

[TanisNikana]

You don't actually know if you can go to this, because you missed a critical question.

What time is it?

[xcthulhux]

You don't actually know if you can go to this, because you missed a critical question.

What time is it?

it is currently 10:51

[superjaz]

hence the web site for more information

[TanisNikana]

hence the web site for more information

Website has no worthwhile info.

[Mr Silmero]

from their myspace it seems to be 9 PM

 11/6/2009 9:00 PM at Zhu Lin/Bamboo Grove presents: China Design Now party (all ages)
134 SE Taylor St, Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: Free
The Slants are performing a special set to coincide with the Portland Art Museum’s "China Design Now" exhibit. This special event will feature Chinese art and music...best of all, its free!

[Mr Silmero]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25233340@N04/

photos of the event, about 93 photos I think.

[camname21]

To any who attended, how was it?

[Mr Silmero]

Very small but it was nice, half new songs and half off the original album, nice little personal thing- I played Go against Aron before the concert and "won" (he had to do soundcheck) and we all got splattered with confetti as well.

[Simon Young]

Sorry about not posting the time earlier! I forgot to check "notify me of replies" to follow up.

But yes, it was an intimate setting, we didn't have a lot of time to get the word out. I think it was fun - the art exhibit was really cool, seeing them make a giant Sea Horse out of scrap bolts and parts was amazing.

I LOVED being able to try out our new confetti cannon. That part was amazing.

And being able to play some of our new material for people was cool too. We've been working really hard in the studio and haven't been playing out as much as we'd like.

Tony, what'd you think of the new songs?

[Mr Silmero]

Tony, what'd you think of the new songs?

They are really good, you can easily see the maturity of the band in the new songs.

I'm REALLY digging Slanted Heart and can't wait to hear the studio version of that,
How The Wicked Live is also really good as it has a decent amount of synthesizer action in it which gives a nice throwback to the Gaijin days. Every Chance I Get went through a lyric change which made me shake my head as I thought Aron was just making up stuff like he forgot the line or something, then I realized the lyrics made too much sense to be just a coverup. But the song structure is the same if not for a lack of keyboard action this time around, still good though.

Overall I think the new songs are really well done and if there is any tightening that needs to be done to them I can only hope it would improve them even more.

So I say this as a fan- NEW CD SOON PLEASE.

[Simon Young]

Thew new cd will be coming very soon indeed (and the album will feature more keyboard work than our live versions of those songs as well, they're just in still in the writing stage). Glad you enjoy!