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this group was made up of arto lindsey (the guy "banging on the guitar"), ikue mori and either robin crutchfield (if you saw keys) or one of the members of pere ubu (if you saw a bass). you might not believe it, but you are very lucky to have seen this. whether or not it was appriciatable isn't even worth bickering over as the subsequent contributions to the artform made by each member of dna are very well documented. perhaps you'd be a bit surprised by the much-more-predicitable "ambitious lovers" records made by a.l. in the late-ies. [snip] >I went to a benefit for The Kitchen (in NYC) waaay back in '81-82, [snip] >Well, about 12.30 a band came on that was sort of an anti-band if you >will. >It was DNA. I recall that I thought it was just f%%king awful, no, BEYOND >that. I was appalled at the abuse that the 'guitarist' (quotes in >context) >hailed upon his guitar, just BANGING on it frankly. A wall of noise. >Kind >of like anti-music. It went on for oh, seemed like hours, but must've >been >just 30 minutes. I was so relieved and irritated when they were finished. >I thought of it as a typical example of pretentious New York City >pseudo-art. I wished I wrote a column so I could crap all over these >guys.