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Gigs you've been to and your thoughts.
Jyan:
--- Quote from: imagist42 on 23 May 2008, 21:56 ---Really? What are yours? Mine are basically that I hate being anywhere that so many people have such vast freedom to light up just about whatever they want wherever they want, particularly upwind of me. That and the venue ought to open up wider, side-to-side, rather than opening up toward the back in such a narrow manner. Makes for very little room to be anywhere close to the stage or otherwise in sight of the band.
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Oh, see, I don't mind the crowd so much, its the people who work there that tick me off. Every one I talked to was so unhelpful and such dicks, plus the damn venue messed up my press stuff so I couldn't get in to the frickin show.
imagist42:
Ah. Well, my experience with the staff was mostly an idiotic security guard who shuffled through the crowd to break up two drunk guys who were barely curt with each other, hardly about to start a fight, and then not noticing the frat boys taking hits of weed right next to him. Even the worst venues I've been too have been pretty on-the-ball about stopping people who are so obvious about it, but not Stubb's. Otherwise, not much I can say on the staff front.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: the Goat on 24 May 2008, 16:22 ---Did you stick around to see them play or did you leave before the set began?
The reason I ask is because I saw the same tour with Pelican and I have to agree they were not as loud as I was expecting. At that time they were just a trio with a half-stack for the bass and guitars. I had only given a cursory listen to Hex when I saw them and I was expecting fuzzed out drone metal a lá Earth 2.
They sounded nothing like Earth 2. They were playing this sort of slowed down version of electric country. Kind of the same idea as before, but replacing the fuzz with twang. It was really incredible, in my opinion they blew Pelican off the fucking stage, but I think the twangier sound helped mitigate the volume so it didn't feel like my ear drums were being torn out.
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I left before the set began. I'm pretty sure they sounded like they did when you saw them from the reports I heard afterwards, but the twangy sound wouldn't have helped. It's bass volume that gets me rather than the abuse to my eardrums and they had it cranked up enough to shake the room.
suitupletsgo:
as of this afternoon, my sister has purchased herself and I tickets to see Swervedriver on June 6th in Philly. she has been telling me for about 10 years now, that they were one of her favourite live shows. needless to say, I'm very excited.
I'm also seeing Jeremy Enigk on Friday, but no one likes Sunny Day or his solo stuff in these parts, haha.
sean:
Not true, I believe a few people dig Sunny Day Real Estate. I myself enjoy their early material every once in a while.
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