Article featured in the San Diego Reader By David Stampone Like a lot of musicians, John Goff views a performance by his group Physics as an "event" not just another run-through of material, another day at the office. What sets the North County-based Goff an Co. apart though, is that each Physics show really is unique, an improv session where everybody plugins in and feeds off each other to make the jam happen. That attitude alone makes and Physics gig a fresher, more creative proposition that most concerts offer. Among other things, Goff picked up an appreciation of this approach during a two-year tenure playing drums and bagpipes in S.D.'s neo-tribalist collective Crash Worship. Honing his 'pipe skills with no less traditional an ensemble that that of Balboa Park's House of Scotland, he's also lent some skirting adornment to other arty local acts, including guest stints around town with Three Mile Pilot (he's featured on the first track of TMP's forthcoming second album). As "Johnny Superbad" a while ago, Goff put together a forerunner of sorts for Physics ("...and the Bullet Catchers"), a fluid aggregate of massed guitars and crushing drums bringing to mind Glenn Branca's guitar symphonies, a less rigid Swans/Melvins riffathon, maybe even the later local all-star axe army Orca, a one off put together by Drive Like Jehu's Rick Farr that included other members of the extended Bullet Catchers / Physics family. In fact, the interrelatedness of Physics' players, most all in other bands, makes for both their cohesive, endlessly permutating groove-slams and considerable logistics problems. Goff wonders if Physics can / should go on too much longer past the Saturday's Che' Cafe appearance, since two of the six core musicians - Rob Crow and Travis Nelson of Heavy Vegetable, also playing tomorrow night a Bodie's and Sunday up at Lou's Records - are likely to be further occupied after Headhunter Records launches HV's promising debut, The Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aquakitty and Friends, on Monday. Whatever the future, Goff hopes to make Saturday's show an extra-special musical potluck of "Quantum Physics," with Farr adding his guitar to regular riffers Goff, Crow, Nelson, and Jason Soares, while drummer Denver Lucas (better known as the guitarist in local trio Powerdresser) is joined by the pounding talents of Crask Worship's Simon Cheffins and Three Mile's Tom Zinser, Jfre Coad on Tangerine Dream / Cluster-flavored synth and Matt Lorenz on visuals round out the lineup. PHYSICS, Che' Cafe, Saturday, April 16, 8 pm, 534-2311. $7.