Best: Flaming Lips at the Aragon in Chicago on New Year’s Eve 2003/2004. They played with The White Stripes and Blanche, who were both great that night, but The Flaming Lips stole the show. Since it was a big New Year’s party everybody in the crowd was really into it and partying hard. At midnight, The Flaming Lips and The White Stripes did an awesome version of “Seven Nation Army” together.
Worst: Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band at Great Woods in suburban Massachusetts in 1992. This venue is one of those big outdoor pavilion places that have terrible sound. We had lawn seats and it was freezing out and the band, no surprise, sucked. We spent the whole time walking back and forth across the mostly empty wasteland of the lawn trying to stay warm.
|