Need a spiritual awakening? Try this Clone Defects live set, at the Gold Dollar in 2000

By Mike McGonigal on Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:48 am

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Need a spiritual awakening? Try this Clone Defects live set, at the Gold Dollar in 2000

The band in 1998. Photo from Clone Defects Facebook page.

It's Monday, and you need a reason to live. Time marches forward, and onward, and it's all enough to give a person a huge headache.

Head cheese

Over on the Clone Defects Facebook page (come on, you check that at least once daily, don't you?), they recently posted live footage from 17 years ago, at the Gold Dollar. The band is captured in fine, frenetic form.

"The Clone Defects: Gold Dollar, Detroit, MI, May 16, 2000, filmed by Paul Unger," the description reads.

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This video was originally posted seven years ago by Unger/August Media, who've been doing pro quality shoots of live music in Detroit for twenty-plus years, and sharing archives of other cool stuff — check out that Oblivians set from the Third Man pressing plant opening if you haven't already.

Poster Artist: Tim Lampinen

Need a spiritual awakening? Try this Clone Defects live set, at the Gold Dollar in 2000 (2)

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Mike McGonigal

Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...

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