07/11/2026
Packed up the Subaru with the Infinty Machine to take a road trip to Musique Electronique to play an Infinity Machine set. Greg is on a vision quest, and aside from the issue of transporting instruments, thought it would be fun to head out on the open road like I did so many times touring in vans with sixfingersatellite and this has definitely tweaked many memories. To think we’d play at least three cities in Ohio alone is wild now, home to heroes like Pere Ubu, Devo, The Pagans, and contemporaries like Brainiac.
You get a real, visceral feel for the complexity and diversity of the USA when you drive across the country vs flying. I remember one time, probably around 1995, Six Finger Sateliite was on tour and we rolled up to a venue somewhere in a weird place in Ohio (if my memory is correct), too early, before anyone was there. Me, J, and Rick (James apt and James Murphy were probably either looking for coffee or records) were sitting on the sidewalk outside the venue in a real run down part of town. We’d often stay near the van to avoid getting robbed. A cop rolled up and rolled down his window, he had a big cop moustache and mirror shade cop sunglasses. This was nothing new for us, and Rick and I knew to let J do the talking. We braced ourselves and the cop said ‘hey, do you guys know what time Six Finger Satellite are playing?’ J responded with something like ‘yes sir, 11:00pm,’ to which the cop responded ‘ok cool, see you then,’ and drove away.
