Been to any good concerts lately?

[nyc999]

Saw Beck last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Great music venue...great concert. His band is really talented, and he had a DJ from Japan that spun DVDs on a big screen along with the beat.

Also saw Coldplay recently, pretty good, but nothing compared to last night.

Interested to hear others recent concert experiences...

[theweatherman]

Saw Streetlight Manifesto last night in DC

[TheMainEvent]

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he had a DJ from Japan that spun DVDs on a big screen along with the beat.


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Please explain further, I am interested.

[chuddo]

saw built to spill two nights ago. good show, but not as good as other bts shows i have been too.

some of the new stuff from their upcoming album sounded solid though.

as usual doug marsch was completely ridiculous on guitar.

im going to see holopaw tomorrow night.

[nyc999]

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he had a DJ from Japan that spun DVDs on a big screen along with the beat.


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Please explain further, I am interested.

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Tough to explain...there were just a lot of images on the screen all being woven into each other. The images included buildings and signs, as well as just patterns of different colors. I don't know the technical details, but I think he had 6 - 8 DVD players going with all of these different images, and would spin them (don't know how) and the images projected and moved to the beat. For instance, a dark sound would have dark colors, energetic songs bright colors, etc. It was a show in itself.

[MightyMouse]

Going to see Matisyahu in Burlington, VT the 22nd. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ZZzzZZzzZZzz.

[IndieMatty]

Tons. Last night I saw Sufjan Stevens do an 'unplugged' performance at Symphony Space - Thalia Theatre, probably 120-150 people, basically a very small movie theatre. Extremely powerful stuff, where he played mostly Seven Swans stuff and a few of the slower Illinois/Michigan songs.

Also seen Minus The Bear/These Arms are Snakes lately and they always rock your [censored] sucks off.

[CrazyEyez]

I'll go totally anti-indie music and say that I saw the Foo/Weezer show. It was the first time I'd seen Foo - Grohl is a rock star. They blew the roof off. I went in thinking I liked Weezer more, but FF was 10x better. (Not that Weezer was bad.)
Fantastic show.

[Boris]

Saw the Dry Branch Fire Squad last weekend at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. Great, great bluegrass band. Also saw Rodney Crowell (so-so performance) and the Knitters(sweet show. the band is much better live.).

[twankerr]

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Saw Beck last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Great music venue...great concert. His band is really talented, and he had a DJ from Japan that spun DVDs on a big screen along with the beat.

Also saw Coldplay recently, pretty good, but nothing compared to last night.

Interested to hear others recent concert experiences...

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saw the same beck show here in minneapolis @ roy wilkins. i agree that it was pretty good.

[WillMagic]

Saw Coldplay six weeks ago at Shoreline. First real concert I've ever been to. My cousin from Kansas was in town for a few days, and had an extra ticket, so really, how could this possibly go wrong? Free tickets to Coldplay?

Here's how.

We didn't have real seating. We had lawn seating. I'm told we need to show up 3!!! hours early to have any hope of securing seats where we could even see the band. Otherwise, we'd have to watch the LIVE concert that WE WERE attending on a projector screen. We got there three hours early and proceeded in a 30-minute long ordeal to park in the middle of some massive dirt lot in the middle of the bay. We then walked for 20 minutes to get into the amphitheatre, to find that no, we would not actually be able to see the band from our seats, but we would have sycophants from Make Trade Fair come and badger us about WalMart and the poor, poor coffee farmers. This actually provided some entertainment, as there is nothing more fun than flustering a Fair Trader.

Sycophant: Hi, would you like to sign the BIG NOISE petition?

Me: What would you be making this BIG NOISE about?

Sycophant: Oh, we'd just be raising awareness, you know, making noise about poverty, showing the world leaders that people care about poverty.

Me: You care about poverty...wow. Original. So what policies would you have the world leaders enact?

Sycophant: Uh...

Me: Well, how about CAFTA? Are you in favor of that?

Sycophant: What now?

That kept me occupied for about fifteen minutes...unfortunately there were still an hour and forty-five minutes till Coldplay came on. And then the sun went down. And it was super-cold. So cold... I waited in line for half an hour to pay $65 for a Coldplay hoodie that I would never wear in public in order to avoid scorn. While in line another, more intelligent sycophant from Make Trade Fair jumped me. I dispensed with him, thinking that maybe this concert was like Mario Bros. and at the end I'd have to defeat Chris Martin in the boss's lair.

I got back to my seat in time to catch the beginning of the opening band's act. Woo-hoo! Music.

Too bad they were AWFUL. Imagine a Staind-Creed hybrid, but more monotonous and with less range. I tried to listen to my Ipod instead, but this being Shoreline there was no way my earbuds could outpace the massive speakers in front of me.

So after an hour of this shitfest, Coldplay finally comes on. And they were very good. I mean, wow. What a great music video. I'm so glad I got to wait for three hours in cold weather in order to watch that music video.

And then sit for another half an hour in the dirt parking lot, waiting to get out.

So, short answer to your question, no.

Will

[balkii]

I saw the Oregon Symphony do Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Beethoven's 7th. It was excellent.

[TheBlueMonster]

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Saw Beck

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I saw him a few years ago during the Sea Change tour. What an amazing show.

[mike l.]

dungen
acid mother's temple

the latter was the best show i saw this year i think.

[billymonk]

Yes,

I saw Dwight Yoakam two Thursdays ago. It was obviously incredible and arguably the best concert I've ever been to.

[willie]

saw coldplay a few weeks ago at madison square garden

scored tickets 2 days before, got my gf to drive down 150 miles, went to our seats (100 level, listened to the opening act)

just before coldplay came on, i put my sniper scope on and scored some seats to the side of the stage, w/ a full view of the band, the same seats that were 200 apiece on ebay the day before.....whoever had the seats never came and i really enjoyed the show w/ my girlfriend.



my morning jacket friday in philly.

[Piiop]

I saw System of a Down with the Mars Volta two weeks ago at Nationwide arena here in Columbus. It was incredibly awesome.

[fnord_too]

Damn this thread to hell. I'm married with children, the next concert I'm likely to see is the [censored] wiggles. (Sadly, I now know most of there songs and catch myself singing them sometimes when not trying to amuse the bambinas. What have I become??? Ok, get a grip, put some Cassandra Complex on and pretend your still salvagable fnord.)

[BWebb]

Saw Bloc Party at the Warfield in San Fran two weeks ago. The concert was awesome. I love their music but wasn't sure how some of the slower songs would be live, but it was fantastic. Also, the Kills opened for them and they were pretty interesting.

[GoCubsGo]

Goddamn you. I wanted to see that Beck concert here in Chicago but it was all sold out by the time I found out about it. I just got into Beck like a month ago at the suggestion of a 2+2er. Maybe it was you. His music is some of the best I've heard, but there is so much trash to filter through.

[nyc999]

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Goddamn you. I wanted to see that Beck concert here in Chicago but it was all sold out by the time I found out about it. I just got into Beck like a month ago at the suggestion of a 2+2er. Maybe it was you. His music is some of the best I've heard, but there is so much trash to filter through.

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Wasn't me but I would highly recommend him. He played guitar, banjo, harmonica, drums, accordian, kitchen utensils (drum jam) and the turntable at various stages of the show. Maybe 1 or 2 songs the crowd really wasn't into...not too bad for a 2+ hour show.

[Skip Brutale]

I saw Mars Volta. They played nonstop for 4 hours combining every song.

[bwana devil]

saw beck on 06/19/04 (just looked the date up on his website) for the first time at liberty lunch in austin. place held around 500 people. he had just released his first album at that point.

i remember getting there before the show started and it was a bit crowded in front but i walked almost right up to the stage. just as beck started to play i realized why.

i was standing right where the mosh pits formed at shows. this was in the hey day of mosh pits. i couldnt freaking believe it. moshing at beck?!?! "loser" is the hardest thing on mellow gold. the rest is hippie stoner music. damn sheep.

bwana

[snowden719]

saw the decemberists on thursday and their show was very solid.

I'm not exactly a Motley Crue fan, but I got free tickets to the Cincinnati concert so I went. This thing was all kinds of awesome. The whole band was way on their game, I was really impressed both with Tommy Lee's drumming and The lead guitarist's playing. They had half-naked chicks spinning on ribbons, explosions, it was awesome, it was rock and roll.

[BobboFitos]

going to see matisyahu next week

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[pokerjoker]

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[Soul Daddy]

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saw built to spill two nights ago.

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I didn't enjoy that show very much. I think the 3 terrible opening bands had completely sapped me by the time BTS arrived.

Saw New Pornographers at Southgate House on Friday. Now that was a concert.

[zephed]

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Saw Beck last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Great music venue...great concert. His band is really talented, and he had a DJ from Japan that spun DVDs on a big screen along with the beat.

Also saw Coldplay recently, pretty good, but nothing compared to last night.

Interested to hear others recent concert experiences...

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Saw the White Stripes play at the Greek Theatre. Awesome show. They are really tight onstage. Great slide playing. Meg White is in her own little world onstage, fun to watch.

They have their equipment set up so Meg is at one edge of the stage facing sideways and Jack's mic set up right in front. It helps them to stay in sync because they go off course quite a bit and use visual cues to change the rhythm.

He made fun of the LA crowd by doing the encore after the first set which was about 5 songs long. Guess we're not as loud as other places. Lots of people there trying too hard to look cool. Go away 80's, I hate your music and huge ugly sunglasses. The older crowd was out in full force, which was a surprise.

Beck came on stage and played one of his songs, and then played bass on The Denial Twist.

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Went to the Long Beach Blues Festival (at my school), it was mostly R&B. Another guy (Guitar Johnny, or something) thought the blues = long uninteresting guitar solos. Lots of noodling, no quality phrasing. Bobby Blue Bland played, he does this funny thing with his voice/throat, kinda cool. I forgot if I liked his music, too long ago.

Black Crowes closed the show. Pretty good overall, they could get rid of a guitarist or something else. A little muddy at times.

Got baked in the hot sun.

[Tuco]

Saw Death Cab for Cutie on Tuesday at the Commodore ballroom in Vancouver.

Really enjoyed the show. Been a fan for a year or so and this was the first time I got a chance to see them.

New album growing on me...

Next up:

Dora the Explorer LIVE! Cant wait to see the real swiper.

Tuco.

[rmarotti]

Decembrists

[protocol]

Coheed, 1st tour date in AC.

[David04]

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