Composer and producer Brendan Canty remembers his favorite concert well. “[It was] just unhinged and surprising, and welcome, and immediately seared into my memory for the rest of my life,” the former Fugazi drummer recalls. “The Mummies played very loud unsophisticated garage rock in Mummy suits. They jumped and humped the instruments and screamed at us. But it really was glorious—and being surrounded by old, jaded bikers in a biker bar in Calgary made it all so surreal. The singer lost his balance on top of his Farfisa organ and fell on his arm and broke it. A biker lady wrapped herself in toilet paper to mock them and stood in front of the stage flipping them off. It warmed my heart.” “It was, shall we say, unscripted,” he adds. Canty contributed this vivid memory to Great Gig Memories ...
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