Wow.  Kim says the live music we heard tonight was the worst he's ever experienced.  I might have seen worse back in 2001 or 2002.  Anyway... a local bar had free Labor Day jazz which seemed like a chill way to end the long weekend.  The first two of the three bands on the bill were OK.  But it was the last band that I will never forget.  First, they started out with a long period of careful tuning of instruments and general pre show sound tweaking.  Then, out of nowhere, the entire bar was slammed in the face with a million decibels of brutally angry sonic disembowelment.  It was like the opening scenes from Platoon.  Some members of the audience nearly fell from their chairs from the shock and others merely held their ears with stunned expressions.  As most sane patrons -- after only a very short appraisal of the wildly different and horrible situation they now found themselves forcibly thrust into -- made a hasty retreat to the relative safety of the streets of the Mission, I inserted my ear plugs and put my camera into video mode and moved closer to the stage.  This is a sampling of what went down:

That disagreeable orchestration of noise was matched only by its ferocious loudness.  This band was certainly not shy about the act that they were committing; they wanted to be absolutely sure that we were acurely aware of every screech and caterwaul.  I'm still too shaken to be able to rationally ascertain if this is indeed the worst music ever created.  It was definitely close to being the loudest.  But if not worst and/or loudest it's very close, and will certainly be discussed for decades to come.

Awesome.  Fantastic.  After the show we had one of the best laughs I've had in some time.  Definitely a summer highlight.