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Daryl P. Brothers brings tears to a clowns - Halloween 2004

Lou Reed would classify him a rock and roll animal.

Our “Cousin” Daryl P. Brothers is a well known WNY music-o-phile/sometimes AV photo contributor/all around good guy who spends an inordanent amount of nights either out at local music shacks or traveling miles and across borders to take in live music.

Like the James Brown of concert attendence, he is the hardest working man in show-going. It’s earned him a reputation as a rock zelig.

Every show it seems, he’s THERE. Somehow he ends up in the front of the stage, too. He has a hundreds of stories from the front lines of the rock music fight.

Back at the annual SXSW 2007, while out in the crowd at Stubbs BBQ for an immolating performance by the reunited Stooges, I glanced at the Igster and there was my friend Daryl up there on stage with him!

Notice the well-traveled AP photo where Daryl is on the far right giving the patented “rock point.”

and YouTube clip where Daryl P appears about 2 minutes in:

Iggy “Stooge” Pop on stage with Daryl Brothers (in striped shirt) at SXSW 2007

Last weekend, he again left his imprint after attending the heralded New York edition of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.

Speaking to him Sunday from the Catskills hideaway (a place Brothers declared as, “Just like something out of The Shining.”) that hosted the boutique festival, he reported a massive first two nights catching sets that  included Built to Spill performing Perfect From Now On and the Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II as well asgetting taken for big bucks by Shellac mainman and noted engineer/producer Steve Albini in a high stakes poker game.

That Sunday night was the big dance, however, with sets from Mercury Rev and the mighty My Bloody Valentine.

By the next day it was clear that rock zelig Daryl P had not let us down.

As the indie blogosphere was a rush of reviews from All Tomorrow’s Parties, one of the best - Brooklyn Vegan - not only carried a full on hosanna of My Bloody Valentine’s uplifting if aurally crushing set but it had great photos of Kevin Sheilds and company. Then scanning through them, we quickly noticed a familiar face in a bootleg Van Halen shirt.

from BrooklynVegan.com - Daryl P. Brothers at left during My Bloody Valentine's set at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival

I’ve said it before and I wil say it again: Daryl P. Brothers is a sick dude!