I'm going to pass on this round.
If anyone's interested, here are my reviews of the two Seattle U2 shows:
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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.
Alicia K - Apr 27, 2005 6:30:06 am PDT #8378 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Hayden - Apr 27, 2005 6:46:30 am PDT #8379 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
my days of spending $85 on festivals is over.
I hear ya, but then SXSW comes along...
Sue - Apr 27, 2005 7:05:32 am PDT #8380 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Alicia, your descriptions really make me want to see them again, even though the one U2 concert I saw was a huge disappointment.
Gandalfe - Apr 27, 2005 7:05:39 am PDT #8381 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Tina and Lisa are in.
Alicia K - Apr 27, 2005 7:18:41 am PDT #8382 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Sue, what concert was that?
Sue - Apr 27, 2005 7:28:16 am PDT #8383 of 10003
hip deep in pie
It's was the second time around on the Zoo TV tour, in Vancouver. Unfortunately I got them when they were dripping in irony.
Alicia K - Apr 27, 2005 7:30:16 am PDT #8384 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Heh. I actually liked them dripping in irony. I saw them in Madison, WI on the Zoo TV tour, but oddly enough, I hardly remember the show at all.
But when I go back and watch the concert videos from that tour, I LOVE it. The Zoo Sydney video is incredible.
Popmart was weird and their hearts didn't seem to be in it, and I think they knew they had to get back to basics with the Elevation tour. This one is pretty similar to that tour in terms of "back to basics," but it's got some cool light stuff.
DavidS - Apr 27, 2005 1:12:21 pm PDT #8385 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Neil Gaiman seems to enjoy an interesting life. I need more life like this:
This morning I got up very early and went off to spend the morning in a cafe in Notting Hill with Damon and Jamie, talking Gorillaz, and the nature of story, and why an imaginary cartoon band can have more integrity than some flesh and blood ones, and all that sort of stuff (all while having our photo taken). Enormously pleasant -- I'd not met Damon before, and hadn't seen Jamie since we went to Berlin for the (first? second?) anniversary of the coming down of the Berlin Wall, about fifteen years ago.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2005 4:56:44 pm PDT #8386 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
why an imaginary cartoon band can have more integrity than some flesh and blood ones,
This reminded me -- last night I was talking with some people about "embarassing" music we like, and I said something about Milli Vanilli being awesome, and my friend said, "They weren't even REAL!" But guess what? The music is still real.
Fred Pete - Apr 28, 2005 3:55:15 am PDT #8387 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Another Milli Vanilli fan?
I thought the music was great fun, cotton-candy pop. And, well, I didn't see their videos all that much.