Alice Chapter 3

Running through the crowds at the Fat White Family show at (Le) Poisson Rouge in
NYC, I saw 6 foot tall something long blonde long hair... James Hurst…I was drunk
but he was worse. I gave him a hug and said, “dude what are you doing here?” “I
just moved to New York today” he said. I told him NYC just became a better place.
I found out later that his band GOLD was here from LA recording for 2 months.
The first show of theirs that I attended was at Berlin. That’s when I discovered how
extremely original their sound is. It has a certain dark romance to it. But what about
their personal style, you ask? The boys have incredible taste in shoes, which is just
icing on the cake. A few days, 12 midnight on a Tuesday to be exact, I met them at a
Brooklyn rehearsal studio and watched them rehearse. The Tokyo room they called
it, because of the size and how everything is stacked. Gilbert Trejo, lead guitarist says
this about his band: “Gold is the standard we set for ourselves for our songs”
... Phil Spector gold star studios...
The names of the songs I find poetic: Best, Ruby, Mary, How to Fade, Always ..
Nelson, the singer says .. “It’s dark romanticism .. Bands don’t do that anymore..”
Seth the drummer asked for Chapstick and we offered him lipstick. “Perfect! I had
hot pink on earlier”. He pointed out his rat tail as the others described him as a 30’s
dandy .. “He’s a getting his rattail braided”.
Being among these four is like watching comets collide…Young blood... Inspired…..
They are lovely, humble and shining. And they are playing our first show at Ludlow
House, the new Soho house that just opened in the Lower East Side of NYC! See you
there!