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La Creme:
I'll talk about 'em over time, the great concerts are all pretty good long stories as well:
--Eels - No Strings Attached Tour opening show at the Roxie--
-------The Eels tour previous to this one was the Eels with strings tour, to which old folks flocked like flies to shit. This simile is kinda silly here, seeing as Eels w/Strings was Pluto-far from shit. Point is, E in a suit, a string quartet, 3 or 4 songs out of 30 with any electric instrument, all sums up to friendly for the parents of kids who got their parents into the Eels via "Daisies" or "Blinking Lights".
--------So when E, The Chet, some new drummer (I love the turmoil since Butch has been gone, almost makes up for him leaving), and Big Al from the last tour in a "Security" shirt with no instrument walked on stage in black bomber pilot suits with big facial hair, you could feel a slight tremor shift throught the crowd. Starting with the first ear-shattering crush of the first 4 minutes of improvisational sludge and ending after the second song, "Old Shit/New Shit", every single person over the age of 30 seemed to have filed out to the entrance area, or out of the club altogether. (by the way, for any Eels fans, you know all those little sounds in "Old Shit" that are really buried in the wall of sound? Your ears splitting made those sounds live. The band didn't even need to make em.) The excellent noisefest continued on for a good hour and a half, with lots of great features, like a cover of "Jesus Gonna Be Here" with the king mother fucking Chet singing, and a 15-minute "Not Ready Yet" that totally broke down in the middle in a rad way, and that fast, punky version of "I Like Birds" they've done a lot since the Souljacker touring that never stops being awesome .
-------Afterwards, in the car, talking to my mom and brother and friends who came, but not hearing much, I discovered that the conversations my mom had after leaving for the entry room all centered around people saying these things: "The sound man fucked up, they didn't mean to be this loud." and "I love the Eels but I don't know about this 'new direction' they're going in." I love old people trying to make excuses for how goddamned old they are.
jeph:
1) Hum at the 930 club in DC
2) Broken Social Scene (w/J. Mascis guest appearance for "Almost Crimes") in Northampton, MA
3) Mercury Rev at 930
4) Arcade Fire opening for the Unicorns
5) Mogwai at Pearl St. in Northampton
Mikendher:
My top two are all I can think of right now:
The Spinto Band (with the Lovely Feathers as opener)
Broken Social Scene
FreshJive787:
man, alot of people have seen broken social scene live, i feel so unblessed to not have seen them.
BrittanyMarie:
1. Pixies in Winnipeg (It was supposed to have been the first show in 12 years, then those assholes in Minneapolis snuck in at the last minute. But it was in Manitoba, and I had just turned 18 13 days previous. I keep the stub in my wallet still)
2. Animal Collective in Minneapolis (the trip back was freaky)
3. Of Montreal (I'm pretty sure I am in love with them all)
4. Calvin Johnston (It was his first trip back in ND since the last time he was here, which was when he almost died in a car/van accident. He shook my hand and remembered my name after the show. I suddenly understood why all the chicks fainted when they saw the Beatles. Also there were 23 people there)
5. The Gossip (Another show with like 23 people. THEY WERE SO FUN. Basement dance party! Beth Ditto signed a record for me for my friend who is serving in Afghanistan right now)
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