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First Movement
Glenn Branca Lyrics


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Craig Zacker

I saw this performed in about 1983 in St. Mark's Church in Greenwich Village. Z'ev was a wild man of flailing metal. It was mesmerizing music, but it was also the loudest concert I ever attended. The musicians played homemade horizontally-mounted guitar-like instruments that they struck with mallets. It was impossibly loud. I was imagining what it must be like outside, the warm summer village evening sundered by this pulsating wall of sound emanating from the church and rattling the neighborhood. It really was irresponsibly loud, but I had no earplugs and didn't want to leave. I definitely experienced some permanent hearing loss that evening. It was one of many strange events I attended in those years. Now I live in Pennsylvania, where it's quiet and there are cows, but my ears are still ringing. Thanks, Glenn.

dan coleman

@Uzi1mm hey thank u so much, I'll be in touch!!

Uzi1mm

@dan coleman I messaged you on yahoo with it.
Enjoyed listening to the recording of your band. The no wave thing was before my time, but it's always interesting to hear stuff that came out of there.

dan coleman

@Uzi1mm I'd like to hear that! Not sure we can message on here but I'm dancoleman2 on yahoo. This was my band which was 1/2 Theoretical Girls (Branca's band) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6GGiFDmYU I'm trying to restore lost material from that period.

Uzi1mm

​@dan coleman There is a bootleg of that 2001 performance. It was up on dime a while back. I have it on a drive somewhere.

dan coleman

@Craig Zacker I was also there and now have a house near Honesdale PA so I guess we both headed for the hills. I was in an offshoot of Theoretical Girls so I knew Glenn back in the day. His greatest performance IMHO was Hallucination City at the World Trade Center, 100 guitars, 40 basses and a drummer broken into left and right groups for an intense stereo field effect. Unfortunately there is not even a crappy bootleg of it and he literally threw that score away - he told me this - and rewrote a new version that was pretty awful. And yes it was was an unbelievable period of time in Manhattan.

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William Main

I was also at this preformance in 1983. I remember it very well. Yes, the music was earth shakingly loud, but also clear and distinct. The church setting gave the music a spritual quality. I think the title Peak of the Sacred is a quote from Ludwig Feuerbach "“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree [peak] of sacredness.”

The Acid Drip

Holy Christ that into is fucking annoying I almost skipped this song just because of it.

That said, I fast forwarded it a little and then the real song started to build with so much tension.

Its like something from God Speed You Black Emperor or Isis or Neurosis.

I love the symphonic crashing waves of tension rolling over me. It's wonderfully cathartic experience.

Thanks for sharing this song

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