Michelle Breslin from Karaoke took a bunch of beautiful photos of Mean Red Spiders, posting them for all the world to see. The texture and strength of the new light grid really comes through, General Chaos are as adept at painting with shadows as they are at painting with light, and the full use of the floods really shines out in these photos.

Wavelength is so lucky to have a lifelong association with General Chaos Visuals. They keep getting better and better swirlier and swirlier. At last week's Wavelength 511, the Mean Red Spiders album release, they were in top form, having installed the light grid that we used to have at Sneaky Dee's; everybody in the front of the stage was well lit for the first time in the Garrison's history. General Chaos' Loaning of the Lights is a big step for everybody, kind of like reaching second base for Wavelength and for Wavelength's unofficial home base at the Garrison. It's been so good to watch all the people in our little community come and go through the years. My old friends have noticed that we haven't had the old Sedated Sundays gang together so often in such a long time. I love this city and my friends.

Mean Red Spiders played a better-than-CD-quality set, Lisa's vocals soared. I forgot all about the old days of the audience shouting to turn up the vocals on the four channel boards of yore.

Thanks everybody for attending this show, it was a rugged Thursday night in the big cold city on the same night I think as the Russian Futurists release, so seeing all the new and old faces together again counted double in my mind and heart. Vanessa's Entire Heart was my favorite kind of beautiful aggravation. I got the sense that her use of feedback as a tool and as a weapon was beautiful to some, frustrating for others — it hit both marks for me and provoked me into paying attention and eventually giving up resistance and accepting her bourbon-y vocals and wild feedback together under the lights.

Willow Rutherford pulled everybody in with a sing-along accordion mystery show of unremembered songs that you feel you've known all along, like that elusive sense of musical déja vu.

Ben Gunning was so professionally together, the only sober people in the building by the end of the party. They brought all the loose ends together. Pure cinnamon. 

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