July 30th 1999 City Media Club Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Review by Gabino Travassos "mote magazine"
..Which opened with Staked Plain, a trio of improvisational neo-rockers
who created this wiggly sonic climate that Old Reliable could only seem
incredibly staid in comparison to. Staked Plain's first show in a couple
of years, playing to probably 30 fans and a bunch of people hiding in
the bathroom, started with a possibly improvised vocal jam on the topic
of Alice Cooper and Mini Golf (on a day that was rife with dinosaurs
of rock sightings) and built through some ambitious electronic and
electric musical vaccilating. Chronic, repetitive, improvised, enthusiastic,
awkward, and fascinating describe them loosely, and a full set would
have been interesting. They played avant-rock with the comfort of
friends who know each other well musically, with the eagerness to make
up new rhymes and shock with new sounds and express themselves.
It wasn't danceable and they made Old Reliable seem pretty conservative
comparatively, and it was skating around musicality, almost carelessly.
Do it again.
