31 January 2011

Boredoms 77 Boa Drum (DVD)

(My Rating: 3/5)

On July 7th, 2007 at 7:07 PM, Japanese group Boredoms, orchestrated a performance by 77 drummers at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, NY. The drummers included Andrew W.K., Brian Chippendale from Lightning Bolt, Lizzi Bougatsos from Gang Gang Dance, and many other leading lights of avant garde rock. The performance is recorded as this documentary movie DVD.

This 80 plus minutes documentary in fact is quite boring stuffs. Although there were some great drummers from legendary No Neck Blue Band, Gang Gang Damce, Lighting Bolt, etc. and also Bordoms of course to be part of the show, they were only eventually becoming some stars in a galaxy. You will never notice them anyway in the show. As also the performance was so organized, well-prepared and structured, there would be no individuality for each drummer, even amongst those big names…..at last, the show is just becoming something like a secondary school music society’s student show fair if you are not an indie fan and by chance walk through the Brooklyn Bridge and see the performance….even worse is that directing and editing of the show is also not too cool while picture resolution is not good enough…..makes this a really flat and boring film watching experience!!        


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