Autopilot
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, Feb 6 › 9pm › $5
GINGGANG with AUTOPILOT and ELK TEETH
The word is out on a movement being characterized as "gypsy rock", with write-ups in all the straight press and all the makings of a rampant youth culture if the wind blows right.ÊWell the first gypsy rock band I remember hearing was a little outfit called Ginggang, and a few quick personnel changes later they were onstage at Someday for one of our first-ever shows. Armed with the sinuous tenor of Nissa Diamant and the rhapsodic violin of Annamari Navratil, they return on a quiet weekday to ply their mischievous fusion of headbang and heartbreak. Autopilot, another Someday veteran, share in common with their billmates an accordion and a passion for the dark end of Pop Town. Elk Teeth probably don't quite fit in there or on the light side of town, but it's clear that they've been paying close attention as they roam its sprawling expanses.
About the artist
Autopilot was discovered in the late nineties in the southern Pocono wilderness by anthropologist Finen Wiest. Having been held captive by music-enamored bears, the band had been playing for almost two years non-stop, fearing the briefest cessation of music would cause the beasts to grow violent. No, the bears did not hibernate: Wiest rescued the band by taking their place, as his first love had always been the 12-stringed trombone, which, unfortunately, he played terribly. Luckily, it seemed the bears did not have particularly discerning taste in music, which was a slight blow to Autopilot's ego. Their four-and-a-half-hour long tribute to Wiest, The Endangered Human , was said to have made old ladies remember distant childhoods and help reconcile troubled marriages -although all album copies were destroyed in the 2002 Banana Fire, and no one, including the band, can remember how any of it went. They choose not to discuss the incident.
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