Sono disponibili al ricchissimo archivio fotografico Downtown Music tenuto da Peter Gannushkin le foto dello speciale concerto di capodanno al Tonic di New York, con Cyro Baptista, Kurt 'Submerged' Gluck, Bill Laswell, Guy Licata, Tatsuya Nakamura, Mike Patton, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn.
Lo commenta uno dei presenti, Michael Stack: "The New Year's Day show - originally billed as Painkiller vs. Methods of Defiance - was really quite something different. The original bill (Zorn, Laswell, Guy Licata, DJ Submerged and Patton) were augmented by Otomo Yoshihide, Tatsuya Nakamura, Cyro Baptista and some electronics guy whose name I didn't catch. They were overflowing the Tonic stage (literally, Zorn, Patton and Baptista were on the floor) and positively explosive. They opened with a 50+ minute performance that alternated between Laswell-directed free improv and dub sections. I've never seen Painkiller, but it seemed like Laswell was totally in charge of the show, indicating who should lead each section. The performance was a frenzy - a rhythmic storm was worked up over which a seemingly endless array of explosive leads and solos came forth. Zorn and Patton intwined around each other, Otomo (who I am only somewhat familiar with) was downright brilliant, and the rhythm section was fierce, particularly Baptista, who was all over and occasionally ranting into a megaphone. After a brief duet between Zorn and Patton, the band played another 15 or so of more or less the same sort of stuff.The only complaint is that there was so much going on during the performance that every time you watched what someone was doing you realized you were missing something else - it was a bit overwhelming in a way, but "there was too much amazing stuff" going on is really damning with praise, suffice to say it was an amazing show."