What Shows Have You Been To Lately?

grindy · 01-25-2019, 02:26 AM

Peter Evans is amazing. Saw him for the first time around ten years ago, 3-4 times since then. Always an experience.

**Frownland** · 01-25-2019, 09:46 AM

Oh so you're one of those twats. Let me know when the live stream is ready.

**Frownland** · 01-25-2019, 09:55 AM

You're against encores? That's stupid dude. You don't deserve shows.

**Frownland** · 01-25-2019, 10:03 AM

See less predictable artists or just leave if you don't want to see the encore.

rostasi · 01-25-2019, 10:47 AM

Saw Evans a couple of times at Big Ears last year.
Also, the female projectionist was something I saw
both in Austria a few years back and at Big Ears,
but they were two different women with two very
distinctively different styles. Wondering if there's
an art school push for this kind of visual work now.

Last year:

~~[MERIT]~~ · 01-25-2019, 10:31 PM

I haven't been to a concert in ages. I need to change that. I think my last one was Watsky a few years back.

**Frownland** · 01-28-2019, 08:49 AM

Sangam

3 white dudes playing Western-tinged Indian classical music on cello, sitar, and tablas. Started off a bit safe but it got sick as **** when they opened up a little bit. Tabla player was on fire and high as hell. It was neat.

**Marie Monday** · 01-28-2019, 02:49 PM

So I saw Patti Smith yesterday and it was awesome.
I was surprised how good her voice was, she still sounds beautiful. Anyway her being old was not a serious obstacle; of course the concert moved at a slightly slower pace than average, with Patti sipping tea and making jokes between the songs, but that's fine as long as the performances are still vibrant. She's very lively and witty still, dances around a bit, sings passionately.

At some point someone in the audience fainted (there were many old people in the audience of course) and she was very cool and adequate about it. She took him onto the stage and proceeded to make fun of it ("Things that people do to get on the stage" and later "You might notice I have a cough. Don't worry, I'm not sick, it's not contagious, and if I feel really bad I'll get up on my own stage") There was a pretty playful vibe to the whole concert.

The setlist was surprising, lots of poems and fragments from her written work (which worked pretty well, introducing Because the Night with a fragment from her book Just Kids was a high point) and odes to William Blake and Andrei Tarkowski. She also did some covers, from Neil Young (a straightforward but beautiful cover of After the Gold Rush) to U2 (!?). She didn't play a single song from Horses, which was a pity, but I could appreciate the I'll-do-whatever-the-****-I-want attitude (audience members: *requested songs from Horses* Patti: "I'm not gonna play any of those f*cking songs"). She clearly doesn't just want to do a greatest hits routine, which is cool. Everything she did play was great, except the U2 cover, which came from one of those Songs of Innocence/Experience albums and was meh, but seeing Patti play a U2 song was pretty funny (and disorienting, because she didn't introduce it beforehand so the whole song I was wondering what the **** they were playing).

On the whole I'd say seeing her is still worth it

ziggywas · 01-31-2019, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MariaExpressesHerself

So I saw Patti Smith yesterday and it was awesome.
I was surprised how good her voice was, she still sounds beautiful. Anyway her being old was not a serious obstacle; of course the concert moved at a slightly slower pace than average, with Patti sipping tea and making jokes between the songs, but that's fine as long as the performances are still vibrant. She's very lively and witty still, dances around a bit, sings passionately.

At some point someone in the audience fainted (there were many old people in the audience of course) and she was very cool and adequate about it. She took him onto the stage and proceeded to make fun of it ("Things that people do to get on the stage" and later "You might notice I have a cough. Don't worry, I'm not sick, it's not contagious, and if I feel really bad I'll get up on my own stage") There was a pretty playful vibe to the whole concert.

The setlist was surprising, lots of poems and fragments from her written work (which worked pretty well, introducing Because the Night with a fragment from her book Just Kids was a high point) and odes to William Blake and Andrei Tarkowski. She also did some covers, from Neil Young (a straightforward but beautiful cover of After the Gold Rush) to U2 (!?). She didn't play a single song from Horses, which was a pity, but I could appreciate the I'll-do-whatever-the-****-I-want attitude (audience members: *requested songs from Horses* Patti: "I'm not gonna play any of those f*cking songs"). She clearly doesn't just want to do a greatest hits routine, which is cool. Everything she did play was great, except the U2 cover, which came from one of those Songs of Innocence/Experience albums and was meh, but seeing Patti play a U2 song was pretty funny (and disorienting, because she didn't introduce it beforehand so the whole song I was wondering what the **** they were playing).

On the whole I'd say seeing her is still worth it

good to hear that,
glad you liked it....

windsock · 01-31-2019, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ziggywas

good to hear that,
glad you liked it....

Patti?

01-25-2019, 02:26 AM	#411 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Peter Evans is amazing. Saw him for the first time around ten years ago, 3-4 times since then. Always an experience. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

01-25-2019, 09:46 AM	#412 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Oh so you're one of those twats. Let me know when the live stream is ready. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-25-2019, 09:55 AM	#413 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	You're against encores? That's stupid dude. You don't deserve shows. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-25-2019, 10:03 AM	#414 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	See less predictable artists or just leave if you don't want to see the encore. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-25-2019, 10:47 AM	#415 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Saw Evans a couple of times at Big Ears last year. Also, the female projectionist was something I saw both in Austria a few years back and at Big Ears, but they were two different women with two very distinctively different styles. Wondering if there's an art school push for this kind of visual work now. Last year: Last edited by rostasi; 01-25-2019 at 10:54 AM.

01-25-2019, 10:31 PM	#416 (permalink)
~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,814	I haven't been to a concert in ages. I need to change that. I think my last one was Watsky a few years back.

01-28-2019, 08:49 AM	#417 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Sangam 3 white dudes playing Western-tinged Indian classical music on cello, sitar, and tablas. Started off a bit safe but it got sick as **** when they opened up a little bit. Tabla player was on fire and high as hell. It was neat. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x