This post is a long time coming. Basically I slacked on making a video of this show for more than a year after Kinski and the Unnatural Helpers gave me permission to film them. Sure, I have excuses, but who cares? My selfish butt denied you, faithful readers, this wonderful material from two totally outta sight Seattle bands.

Kinski was around the entire time I lived in Seattle — the picture above is one of their first promo pics, which I received when I was the arts editor for the University of Washington’s newspaper, the Daily. Yet, this show was the first time I ever saw them, but I’m so glad I did. They were touring for their fourth album, “Down Below It’s Chaos,” which, in my humble opinion, is their best work to date. Though I still thoroughly enjoy their first album “Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle” and it’s perfect Neu! meets My Bloody Valentine mix, “Down” is just a undeniable rock force from the get-go. The album’s opening track, which they play in the video below, contains one of the best punk riffs I’ve ever heard.

Since I received permission to film the band, the sound guy also let me record the set from the board. Though I hooked up and recorded on nine tracks, it seems like I only recorded two, hence why you can’t really hear the the second guitarist clearly but Chris’s guitar and singing are crystal clear (along with the drums.) I recorded it with Cubase, which is lame and unintuitive. Still, the songs are worth a download… for free!

PS — Thanks so much to James, who worked the second camera (his all the shots that don’t have a mic stand directly in the middle of the shot.)