Even at their height, they were always what you might charitably call an erratic live band who frequently succeeded onstage more as a result of the swagger they exuded than the actual sound they made: bootleg recordings on the internet have a marked tendency to sharply – and indeed flatly – undercut hazy memories of legendary shows.
He gave me a detailed description, in his office in La Rinconada, of some of the mountain's mineralogical features — its two long, erratic, gold-bearing bands, its gold-rich vertical faults.
The band's erratic movements have no relationship to their live shows, however, which are reliably charged.
As strong, erratic winds pushed a band of flames over the canyon ridgeline, authorities ordered those living in the Brace Canyon Park area and Castleman Estates to "leave immediately" and head to evacuation shelters, according to an alert issued late Friday night by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
I'd seen younger, more erratic and more hyped bands (Young Bloods, Fat White Family) earlier in the day and expected something more staid and predictable.
The erratic coupling with the brass band also clicks into place on the sparsely pastoral The Smallest Church in Sussex, a number whose air of distracted contemplation lends itself to a melancholy trumpet reveille.
Welch sets out autobiographical details with seeming documentary candor, including fragments of her time in college bands and her erratic classroom performance in the years when "We were riding high / Till the eighty-nine quake / Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall".
For a while, the band had been somewhat erratic and its reputation was sinking.
AllMusic has said that in this period his "live performances became increasingly erratic, ... working with terrible backup bands and turning in sloppy, out-of-tune performances" which "tarnished his reputation with younger fans and oldtimers" alike.
The rock band led by the superlatively erratic frontman Axl Rose, right, played a surprise set at theJohn Varvatos store in the East Village.
