Fragments from Day Two of Pure Music Experience Music Fest at Reference

Five dollars admission for two days of music, 29 bands!



I arrived initially at 1 PM, the advertised start time. Edward told me it would be starting at 3. I was grateful for the extra time. I headed back at 3 PM. The first band was Cat Sex with Dylan Mulshine from Charlottesville. Dylan has performed around here under the names of Rhythm Bandit, Teen Dreams, Raw Moans, and probably more. Today he was playing with a drummer.



The second band was Mutwawa, beats and noise made by long-time Richmond music veterans Gary Stevens [Headmolt, Rat Ward] and Jason Hodges [Amoeba Men, Suppression, Bermuda Triangles].



Third was Josh Vliet performing as Symbols and Pencils. A man with an acoustic guitar.



Alvez played some mellow ambient and laptop music and showed projections on the wall.



I left for a few hours, from 6 - 9 PM. When I got back it was time for Distance of Sex, one man [Travis Miller] with keyboards, beats, good stuff.



Nidra was Philip White, the guy running around with the mic, with a drum machine, and his younger brother on guitar.



A solid set from the Bermuda Triangles. Liking the new songs. First show with new drummer, Tony Lynch, who also plays with Caves Caverns.



Les La Britanica rocked the hip hop style.



Lost Tribe was the final act of the night.

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Cafe Diem Open Mic Comedy Night

Part 1/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring Kelly Henderson as the Emcee. Comedy from James Wasilewski, Jesse Jarvis, and Gregory Schmidt.

Part 2/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring Tori Sipe, CB Wilkins, Corey Marshall, and Ray Bullock.

Part 3/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring Dylan Vattelana, Michal Ketner, and James Paulk.

Part 4/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring Pat Dalton, Bill Metzger, Rachel Wooten, and Chris Anders.

Part 5/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring Brian Mann, Jim Seward, and Sebastian Pignato.

Part 6/7 - Cafe Diem Comedy Night - Jan. 31, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Featuring David Marie-Garland, Ron Rogers, 6-9, and Patrick McCarthy.

Flora and Fauna / Cristal / Snakebraid / Positive Land - Live at Couch Heaven

Flora and Fauna - Live at Couch Heaven - Jan. 18, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Cristal - Live at Couch Heaven - Jan. 18, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Snakebraid - Live at Couch Heaven - Jan. 18, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Positive Land - Live at Couch Heaven - Jan. 18, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Total Lunar Eclipse from Richmond, Virginia

Lunar Eclipse - December 21, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia - United States of America from Silver Persinger.

Filmed from the sidewalk in front of my house. This has been sped up by a factor of 8x. 40 minutes condensed to 4 minutes.

Bermuda Triangles Accompany Silent Movie "Poor Mrs. Jones"

Silent Movie Revival: Poor Mrs. Jones! with Bermuda Triangles - Dec. 12, 2010 - Richmond, VA from Silver Persinger.

Meade Skelton / Raw Moans / World History / Herschel Stratego / Paul Ivey vs. The Board of Education

Meade Skelton - Live at Sprout - Dec. 10, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the Meade Skelton MP3,
www.divshare.com/download/13558916-8d0

Raw Moans - Live at Sprout - Dec. 10, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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www.divshare.com/download/13559051-8cb

World History - Live at Sprout - X-mas X-travaganza- Dec. 10, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

I accidentally deleted the video I shot of Herschel and Paul's performances. That really bummed me out. However, I was able to make an audio recording of their performances.

MORE MP3's COMING SOON!

Lorem Ipsum / Orphan / Hex Machine at Strange Matter

Lorem Ipsum - Live at Strange Matter - Dec. 5, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Orphan - Live at Strange Matter - Dec. 5, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Orphan from Brooklyn, New York.

Free download or stream the Orphan MP3,
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Hex Machine - Live at Strange Matter - Dec. 5, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the Hex Machine MP3,
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Herschel Stratego / The Diamond Center @ Sprout

Herschel Stratego - Live at Sprout - Dec. 3, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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The Diamond Center - Live at Sprout - Dec. 3, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Climbers also played this night but I left before they played.

HRM Live at Twisters from 10 Years Ago!

HRM - Live at Twisters - July 13, 2001 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

This is a pretty poor quality video. Filmed in 2001 with a handheld still camera with a maximum recording time of 1 minute, I think I only used a 32 MB memory stick at the time. This video is made up of 30 short clips, many of them were filmed vertically. (Don't know why I did that, I hadn't filmed very much video is my guess.)

Just really putting this up because I "found" this material yesterday while cleaning up my room, and I currently upload videos of bands all the time now as a hobby. I thought it would be cool to share one of the oldest existing recordings of live music that I've made. I don't recall ever having recorded bands back then. I used to take lots of photos back then. Funny that it does reveal a predisposition to filming live music, 9 years ago!

Since the video may be a headache to watch and there's not much to see -- it's dark, low res, and vertically challenged, the MP3 may be a better overview of this material.

Free download or stream the HRM MP3,
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Enjoy music from nearly a decade ago, made in Richmond, Virginia.

Gull / Hex Machine / Easy Action @ The Triple

Gull - Live at The Triple - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Hex Machine - Live at The Triple - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Easy Action - Live at The Triple - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

From Detroit, Michigan.

Caustic Castle with Bobby Donne / SARS / Head Molt / Positiveland @ Ghostprint Gallery

Benefit show for Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall Initiative (www.awalls.org)

Caustic Castle with Bobby Donne - Live at Ghostprint Gallery - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the Caustic Castle w/Bobby Donne MP3,
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Head Molt - Live at Ghostprint Gallery- Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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SARS [Some Awesome Radical Sound] - Live @ Ghostprint Gallery - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the SARS MP3,
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Positiveland - Live @ Ghostprint Gallery - Nov. 20, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Caves Caverns, Diamond Black Hearted Boy/D☺☺M $TAR

Caves Caverns - Live at Strange Matter - Sept. 28, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Diamond Black Hearted Boy/ D☺☺M $TAR - Live at Strange Matter - Sept. 28, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Mutwawa, Dadfag, Human Baggage - Two Bay Area bands play Strange Matter

Mutwawa - Live at Strange Matter - Sept. 9, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Dadfag - Live at Strange Matter - Sept. 9, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Human Baggage - Live at Strange Matter - Sept. 9, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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My First Public Street Performance

The Really, Really Free Market is a monthly event organized by local anarchists where people donate whatever they no longer need, and others are free to pickup what they want for free. For more information about the Free Market or to get involved, visit their facebook page.

The event happened from 1-3 PM but actually continued until 3:30ish. I got set up and started playing a couple of minutes after 2 PM. In all, I ended up playing about one hour, 35 minutes. It was fun. I didn't set up a donation bucket so there was no expectation of donations. I did receive other rewards. I saw one guy tapping his foot, I saw a woman walking down the other side of the street and either smiling or laughing which I think was caused by my playing. It was also interesting how people would ignore me or avoid eye contact. After I finished playing, one person (and possibly more) briefly clapped. Then four of the anarchists came up to me and thanked me for playing.

So it was a success. No police harassment. Also my battery pack lasted the entire performance powering 3 foot pedals and an amplifier. I was happy about that.

Here are the complete unedited recordings:

Part 1 (15 minutes)
A guy asked me if my guitar was in tune, that's when I played an "E" chord. He wanted to borrow my guitar to show me how it was done, I said no thanks.

Part 2 (1 hour)
35 minutes into Part 2, a kid asked to borrow my guitar and he played a bit of a Blink 182 song.

Part 3 (25 minutes)

Also this music is licensed under Creative Commons license. So feel free to use, remix, sample, etc. See the license for restrictions.


Live at Monroe Park - August 28, 2010 by Silver Persinger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Photosynthesizers at Balliceaux x2

Photosynthesizers - Live at Balliceaux - First Set - Aug. 27, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the MP3, www.divshare.com/download/12428806-3d9

Photosynthesizers - Live at Balliceaux - Second Set - Aug. 27, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Meat Cleaver and Hex Machine at Banditos

Meat Cleaver - Live at Bandito's - Aug. 22, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Hex Machine - Live at Banditos - August 22, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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This Moment in Black History, Sports Bar, Sun God and Antlers rock out at Strange Matter

Both TMIBH and Sun God live in Cleveland, Ohio and played with local bands Sports Bar and Antlers. It was one of the members of Antlers last show before moving away.

This Moment in Black History - Live at Strange Matter - Aug. 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Sports Bar - Live at Strange Matter - Aug. 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the MP3, www.divshare.com/download/12295511-376

Sun God - Live at Strange Matter - August 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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Antlers - Live at Strange Matter - August 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the MP3, www.divshare.com/download/12325957-d1b

3rd Annual Jonny Z Festival

A hot and sunny Saturday for remembering Jonny Z, musician, activist, organizer, and artist. I caught 4 out of 6 bands.

Catnip Dreams - Live at Jonny Z Festival - August 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the MP3,
www.divshare.com/download/12282625-3ea

Josh Small - Live at Jonny Z Festival - August 7, 2010 from Silver Persinger.

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www.divshare.com/download/12283894-1e1

Manic Ceramic - Live at Jonny Z Festival - Aug. 7, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

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www.divshare.com/download/12251258-9e3

Photosynthesizers - Live at Jonny Z Festival - August 7, 2010 from Silver Persinger.

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www.divshare.com/download/12285758-eb6

Eryka Badu - Live in Richmond, Virginia

Part 1/3 - Eryka Badu - Live at Kanawha Plaza - August 6, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Part 2/3 - Eryka Badu - Live at Kanawha Plaza - August 6, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Part 3/3 - Eryka Badu - Live at Kanawha Plaza - August 6, 2010 - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger.

Free download or stream the MP3 of the show,
www.divshare.com/download/12249742-ff9

I'm not a really big R & B kind of guy, but I believe this is the best live show I've ever seen. Eryka's voice is precise and flawless, she is graceful and has a very dynamic way of dancing while she sings. I've been describing it to friends as grand and muted. Her movements were also synchronized with the light show. She is a thrill to watch.