Legendary Japanese psychedelic band Acid Mothers Temple play Bend Saturday

Published 11:00 am Monday, September 30, 2024

To give you an idea of what to expect from the band Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. on Saturday at Silver Moon Brewing, let’s look at the titles of their most played songs on Spotify:

“E.S.P. (Experimental Spooky Peace)”

“Disco Pink Lady Lemonade — Live” (This one is more than 14 minutes long.)

“4000000000000000 Love Hotel” (That’s a lot of Love Hotel!)

“Star Child vs. Third Bad Stone”

If you guessed “noisy, psychedelic, way-out-there rock band from Japan,” you’d be correct! More precisely, they are a legendary noisy, psychedelic, way-out-there rock band from Japan, formed in the mid-1990s by guitarist Kawabata Makoto, who totally rules.

“I don’t want to use these words ‘make’ or ‘compose’ for my music, ‘cos I’ve been just like a radio tuner,” he told the website 15 Questions. “I can hear music from my cosmos, so I just try to play this music without any of my personality getting in the way. I hear music in my dreams, and of course music in my cosmos.”

Speaking of the cosmos, it will bring Acid Mothers Temple to Bend this weekend. That’s amazing.

Acid Mothers Temple, with Spirit Mother and The Kronk Men: 8 p.m., doors open 7 p.m. Saturday, $20, Silver Moon Brewing, 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend, silvermoonbrewing.com.

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