the$inmusicisallmine wrote:

Ty Webb wrote:Roger that!

Hope those comments apply tonight as well. My medication regimen requires careful timing...

I got an email from someone named "Brice" who is involved with the promotion of the show.

"Please treat the venue and the staff with the utmost respect so we can continue doing shows at this historic venue"

I always do. Which is why I go outside to smoke drugs.

Now if they have a "no re-entry policy"? Well, if they have drug users partaking inside in the middle of a rock show, that's they're own goddamn fault, isn't it? What do they think goes on, Scrabble and wheat grass juicing?

Well, the partaking was partook on the street, in the crowd, and in the rafters! I haven't smoked hash through an apple since high school.

Tonight was driller killer. Troy Sanders was Gene Fucking Simmons. Neurosis, as usual, filled that place with sound like an explosionating blow-up dick in your ear. Nice solo bomberz1qr20!

That was a fun time. Good food and nice folks. I have not been to a rock show in a long time. It is so nice that they don't allow smoking anymore.

1). I have never seen so much facial hair in one place. When did New York get taken over by lumberjacks?


2). The sound where I was standing (balcony) was lousy for the first band, OK for Mastodon and very good for Neurosis. I went and stood near the mix position during Mastodon and it sounded slightly better down there.

3). What is it with the fucking cell phones? The people near me were dicking around with their cellphones every 4 minutes - taking crappy pictures, text messaging, web surfing. This one girl next to me must have been a fucking brain surgeon on call, she never put the damned thing away. I think she was just bored - dragged there by her boyfriend. Not much of a female presence at this show. Besides Burun

4). I left a little early - my friend was getting whiney and we were both tired so we cut out about 11:45. I would guess we missed 2 neurosis songs. They were great, and I would like to have stayed, but I had seen a long half hour of the first band, a goog 45 minutes of Mastodon and good 45 minutes of neurosis. My tank was full of metal and I had subjected my poor world music jazzbo pal to enough metal pummeling.

the$inmusicisallmine wrote:That was a fun time. Good food and nice folks. I have not been to a rock show in a long time. It is so nice that they don't allow smoking anymore.

As soon as Neurosis started playing, about 15 people in front of me sparked in unison and sent a cannabis cloud my way. Coupled with all the chemical fumes I inhale all day, it really irritated my nose/throat/eyes and I had to actually pull my scarf over my face for about 15 minutes.

In that very instant, I felt old. And crochety.

I realized rather quickly that I was apparently not the female demographic for this show at all. No facial piercings, non-neon dyed hair, pink argyle socks. Note to self: hire wardrobe consultant, STAT.

The wise decision of investing a couple of Benjamins in those injection-molded earplugs was made apparent at this show.

Surprise of the night was Mastodon's infusion of showbiz. The last time I saw them they were kind of a run of the mill band performance-wise, but last night was a band that had obviously watched a few Temptations shows. Their guitars matched - I'm guessing the suits will come next tour.

Oh, and I was really pleased to see that one of the Mastodon guitarists (the pointy guitarist) plays with his left-hand pinky straight out, as if he were at High Tea.

Since I play in a similar fashion (and have been told it was "weird") I felt vindicated.

I need a another guitar like I need a hole in the head, but that silverburst Flying V is pretty bad ass. A silverburst Explorer with all that high end Gibson cosmetic bullshit would be so fucking cool. It could sound like a wet fart for all I care.

The path to absolute sobriety is paved with two year olds jumping on your bed at 6:30AM screaming the lyrics to Pylon's "Stop It."

burun wrote:
Surprise of the night was Mastodon's infusion of showbiz. The last time I saw them they were kind of a run of the mill band performance-wise, but last night was a band that had obviously watched a few Temptations shows. Their guitars matched - I'm guessing the suits will come next tour.

the fact that they acknowledged the crowd was nice. the tall skinny bass player dude actually looked at the audience occasionally and they actually stopped playing to allow the crowd to respond between songs. and they said "thank you" at the end. that ain't showbiz, that's just being polite and acknowledging the audience. yknow, it wouldn't hurt to say the name of your band once. maybe tell the crowd the name of a song once in a while.

unlike the first band, who never stopped, never spoke, and seemed determined to push people away with volume.

compared to these guys, shellac is like the frikin' vaudeville show.

Troy Sanders is the man and he knows it. Brent Hinds was playing some rad guitars and his voice sounded like he was choking on his dentures. That Mosrite-style guitar was pretty cool, even though it is a First Act(tm). The other guitarist had a CocoRosie mullet.

The first band, all I can say is when I got there I was like "is Neurosis doing a sound check?"

During Neurosis's last song I fucking barged my way through the entire crowd, from the back all the way to the stage, saying "tank tank tank tank" like the Polish Army in that one battle. It worked pretty good and I got to completely lose my shit for their finale.

Vockins syntaxfree07, sorry we never got to meet up. Maybe next time Neurosis plays a Masonic Temple! Burun, thanks for getting me to the train station safe n sound. Hope you got some sleep!

also this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/ ... l?ref=arts

Colonel Panic wrote:That's a great show. All that mechanized stuff with the cheezy techno music playing as consumer goods are being cranked out at a breakneck pace...

Kinda makes me realize how much I have taken all this stuff for granted. It's a little scary, especially the episodes featuring food products.

That show is on around the time I get home from work. It almost always makes me sleepy because, I think, it reminds me of the low budget documentaries I was shown in high school.

Ben