The Librarians
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For the Australian television series, see The Librarians
The Librarians were a power pop band from Berkeley, California who formed in 1999 by Damon Larson and Ryan Gan. They released one album, The Pathetic Aesthetic, in 2002, which received 4/5 stars from All music guide.
The group was famous mostly for their raucous live act:
But (Ryan) Gan, the anti-frontperson frontperson of the Librarians, isn't even fazed. Though on the record, Gan's job is limited to backup vocals and tambourine for vocalist-guitarist Damon Larson, he explodes into his full potential onstage with spastic tambourine beating and poster-worthy one-hand-on-the-hip-the-other-thrust-skyward poses. His performance is truly horrifying in its cheesiness, and yet it's unnervingly mesmerizing. It's a kind of innocence-lost scenario: everyone reaches the same guilty conclusion, "Christ, why don't more bands do this?" [1]
Interestingly enough, Ryan Gan received his Master's in Library and Information Science in 2006 and is now employed as a librarian.
[edit] External links
- Music Video for The Librarians song "You and this Bottle" on Youtube.com
- Band page at Pandacide Records
- AMG's entry for the band
- Book 'em - The Librarians Rock the Stacks in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Storming the Stacks - When was last time you saw a Librarian shake his ass? at Metroactive.com.