Buffistas

Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.

'The Killer In Me'

Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.

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DavidS - Feb 16, 2004 10:43:40 am PST #1038 of 10003

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Best Live Shows:

R.E.M. - 930 Club in DC, 1983
Cramps - 930 Club in DC, 1984
X - Cleveland Agora, 1982
Pylon, Kennel Club in SF, reunion tour, late 80s early 90s?
Hoodoo Gurus - The Channel, Boston, mid 80s
Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys, Rajis LA, mid 80s
PJ Harvey, Slims in SF (small venue), her first tour
Big Star, Fillmore, reunion show with Posies
Little Jack Melody and the Young Turks, Cafe Du Nord, 90s
Stephin Merrit, solo acoustic at Amoeba after 69 Love Songs
Guided By Voices at Bimbos, last fall

First concert? Black Sabbath (original lineup) with Van Halen opening, 1978. Dig my metal cred.

Lyra Jane - Feb 16, 2004 12:20:08 pm PST #1039 of 10003

Up with the sun

I love it when bands play lots of songs I don't know! I get bored hearing the same old songs. As long as the songs are good, I love hearing new material

Unless a song is really good or really bad, it's hard for me to register it as anything but a song I don't know the first time I hear it. Which is fine for a while, but few bands are so good that I want to hear 15 songs I don't know by them in a row while tired and standing in a smoky club. Which is why I've pretty much given up on the "let's just go to the Black Cat and see who's playing" method of concert-going.

(Nitpick for Hec: 9:30. Sorry. )

DavidS - Feb 16, 2004 12:31:14 pm PST #1040 of 10003

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Nitpick for Hec: 9:30. Sorry.

That's what I get for not living there.

meara - Feb 16, 2004 5:03:26 pm PST #1041 of 10003

R.E.M. - 930 Club in DC, 1983

Cramps - 930 Club in DC, 1984

Have I mentioned that the Great Big Drag King show this year (that I'm stage managing) is going to be at the 9:30 Club? That I"m going to get to be on headset there, and go backstage, and so on? I'm SO excited by this....

I'm not generally a big fan of live concerts, just because most artists, I'm not a fan of ALLLLL their work--I like a song here or there, but not a whole evening of them. And especially for big stadium type shows, it seems to not be that different a song/sound from the CD at ALL. A lot of them are so pre-scripted, it bores me. But some bands are fun, and smaller venues. But it's still not something I'm apt to look for and spend my money on, definitely less than a lot of my friends.

msbelle - Feb 16, 2004 5:28:05 pm PST #1042 of 10003

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I like live shows if they give me something that the CD doesn't. Different variations on songs is my favorite. Covers, I love. Crowd interaction is awesome.

Big shows that have no spontenaity (Madonna, I'm looking at you) leave me really cold.

amyparker - Feb 16, 2004 6:08:26 pm PST #1043 of 10003

You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

I have been to two live shows. Shun me at will.

The last one, however, was Richard Thompson, just last year.

DavidS - Feb 17, 2004 5:29:06 am PST #1044 of 10003

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The last one, however, was Richard Thompson, just last year.

Now see that's recent enough and cool enough to stop the shunning.

Lyra Jane - Feb 17, 2004 5:56:46 am PST #1045 of 10003

Up with the sun

That's what I get for not living there.

Oh, I know. And it's more than I know about SF nightclubs. I was just in a nitpicky mood.

Javacat, Gandalfe: CDs will go in the mail shortly.

Alicia K - Feb 17, 2004 7:31:07 am PST #1046 of 10003

Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

I'm weird with live shows: I like to hear stuff I know. Although lately I've been seeing bands I'm unfamiliar with, so I can't expect that. The exception is the bands I love, like U2 and REM, in which I love it all.

This explains my love of going to see cheesy cover bands.

katefate - Feb 17, 2004 8:21:00 am PST #1047 of 10003

Frail my heart apart and play me a little Shady Grove

Live music is mother's milk to me. I like small venues because I groove on watching what musicians are doing. And ogling their instruments.

It seems to me the better or more imaginative musicians are, the more difficult it is for a recording to capture their vitality.

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