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. )
Nitpick for Hec: 9:30. Sorry.
That's what I get for not living there.
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.
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.
I have been to two live shows. Shun me at will.
The last one, however, was Richard Thompson, just last year.
The last one, however, was Richard Thompson, just last year.
Now see that's recent enough and cool enough to stop the shunning.
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.
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.
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.
It seems to me the better or more imaginative musicians are, the more difficult it is for a recording to capture their vitality.
Agreed. It is also just a great way to find new music to listen to.
Speaking of, katefate - here is a Lawrence cable show you can watch in segments about Drakkar Sauna - they do several songs. I apologize in advance for the obnoxious host of the show. (You'll pry want to skip the first half of the first segment).
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