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August 22, 2009 - Saturday 
Animal Collective keep the freak flag flying.
By Jonathan Valania
Add Comment Add Comment|Comments: 0|Posted Oct. 26, 2005
Alex Fine
Back in college-which was longer ago than I care to admit, so let's just say some time after the earth cooled but before the Internet-I lived in an old Victorian house that the college owned and subdivided into separate apartments.
It was a gathering house for all the freaks and geeks who didn't quite blend in with the frat-boy-cheerleader-chug-a-lug-date-rape ethos of the main campus. Across the hall my neighbors had set up a de facto commune-some of the guys living there weren't even enrolled-of 24/7 hacky-sack drum-circling and druggy bird-dogging. They all had sophomoric nicknames-Andy Crack, Stinker, Wild Bill, Bleep-and they all looked like they lived underwater.
Almost nobody knew how to play an instrument, but these guys were gonna start a band. "Whatever you say, Hippie Pants," I thought to myself. They were gonna call themselves the Gooney Birds after the sheet of primo blotter they'd scored at a recent Dead show. While I went to classes, these guys woodshedded day and night, nourished only by an Evian bottle filled to the brim with liquid LSD.
By the end of the semester the bottle was empty and these guys were making some of the most jaw-droppingly mesmerizing folk-based psych I'd ever heard. They sounded like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey looks. Fuck me, I thought. It's like they mutated a couple steps up the food chain.
I can't help but think something similar happened to the men of Animal Collective during their formative years. They've known each other since high school. They all have sophomoric nicknames: Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Geologist, Deaken. They never show their faces in photographs, preferring to don lurid Halloween masks. From the sound of things, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they too had a private stock of that Evian elixir when they first took up instruments.
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Wet Dentist

 
awesome; i saw the Gooney Birds a few times (and i was at a 4th of July Dead show in Maine where that specific brand of acid was everywhere!).  but when the Gooneys became the Crack Babies i believed that they were the most phenomenal live band EVER.  i was a total CRACK HEAD, and saw them as many times as i could.  FOR SURE!

 
Posted by Wet Dentist on September 1, 2009 - Tuesday - 2:01 PM
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