Sunday night my friends The Coathangers played Santos Party House and they are awesome and adorable and they had a little kid play a song with them and that was totally sweet. They even have a rad new split 7″ out that you can listen to. But my love for The Coathangers has been well documented. So this write up is going to feature one of the most awesome bands ever to exist on the planet earth… Guitar Wolf!

After The Coathangers were totally fucking awesome Guitar Wolf took the stage. Okay, that’s not exactly true… before they went on the played like 6 music videos in a row. You need to understand that Guitar Wolf are not like other bands… they are from Japan. As far as I can tell everything in Japan is completely insane and fantastic. Okay, wait. We need to back up for a second.

We need to talk about how in 2001 my friend got a bootleg of a movie called Wild Zero. This movie wasn’t out in the US yet and the subtitles were clearly done by someone who has very little understanding of the English language. It was about zombies and aliens and rock and roll and gun runners and transgendered love, lots of explosions and a Japanese rock and roll band named Guitar Wolf. It’s the weirdest most amazing movie I have ever seen. Seriously, it is my favorite move. The first time I saw it my friend was watching it and I watched from the middle and watched it over again. It didn’t make any sense but every minute of it was fucking amazing.  Years later it made it to the states and you can buy it everywhere so you should do that immediately. I even wrote about it in 2008 for this very site.

Anyway, when I found out Guitar Wolf were playing I of course had to go. So after they played a series of music videos they went on and rocked everyone’s face off. Their music is really loud rock and roll. It’s kinda Ramones influenced but way way harder and way way weirder. At some point the front man (Who is also named Guitar Wolf) thumb wrestled several members of the audience and then brought someone on stage to play the guitar while he crowd surfed. They did SEVERAL encores. The last of which was just Guitar Wolf by himself after most of the crowd had left thinking they were over after two encores. I would say that their set time was actually shorter than their three encores. The 2nd encore involved them building a giant human pyramid and playing on top of it. Fucking amazing.

I was so excited to see both of these band and they 100% did not disappoint. My hearing is still fucked up but I have “a wallet on my ass with a rock and roll license”.

Click here to see all the pictures of Guitar Wolf and the Coathangers at Santos Party House!

 

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