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It's festival time! Saw the following, all on one day:

The Pretenders. I've been a fan, if not a fanatical one, of Chrissie Hynde's little new wave band since 1986, but this was the first time I managed to see them live. And the remarkable thing is that while drummer Martin Chambers (the only other remaining original member) looks more and more like an Emmerdale Farm extra, 57-year-old Chrissie Hynde not only has kept her voice perfectly but doesn't look or act a day over... well, OK, 40 or so. They mix in a couple of new songs between classics like "Middle Of The Road", "I'll Stand By You" and "Brass In Pocket", and even if it's early afternoon and the rain is pouring down it works very nicely. :star3:

Seasick Steve is a sight to see. A 69-year-old former bum with a long beard, prison tattoos, a pawnshop guitar ("This guitar is a piece of shit!") and a bottle of Jack Daniels, managing to hold the entire main-stage audience for an hour with his raw punk blues. This is what the White Stripes tried to do, except Steve makes it sound natural. :star4:

Then The Pixies walk on in their street clothes, looking like they just popped down to the store and happened to end up on stage, and blast through a set of should-have-been-hits that most bands would sell their souls for. They may be an unabashed nostalgia act by now - not one new song in 70 minutes, and every song sounds so exactly like the studio version that the entire audience recognizes them on the first chord - but Joey Santiago is still a guitar hero, Frank Black can still shriek like a banshee, and a somewhat lubricated Kim Deal laughs her ass off between every song. :star4:

But Neil Young blows them all away. I've seen him half a dozen times, but I don't think I've ever seen him this on; in recent years his voice has been a bit shaky at times, but in 2009 he's in great shape and when he nails "Don't Let It Bring You Down" for a second song I know we're in for a ride. He stays acoustic for the first half hour, then straps on his 56-year-old Gibson Les Paul and tears the stage up. The set list isn't the most exciting - it's a festival tour, so it's mostly hits like "Hey Hey My My", "Heart of Gold", "Cinnamon Girl", "Rockin' In The Free World", etc - but he's in a great mood, works in a few surprises (a heavily reworked "Pocahontas", for instance), and gets so deeply into songs like "Down By The River" and "F*!#in' Up" that you start wondering if that's healthy for him... scratch that, for us. It's nothing but a pure 2-hour rush. :star5:
 
Saw Apocalyptica yesterday. Since they became famous with Plays Metallica By Four Cellos in the 90s they've lost one cellist, added a drummer, and on some songs even a very average singer, which means that they occasionally sound like just another heavy metal band. But when they're good, they're great; on songs like "Wherever I May Roam" and "Inquisition Symphony" they fuse metal, classical and Scandinavian folk music beautifully, and they're probably the only metal band in the world who can encore with Grieg's "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" without it seeming even the slightest bit out of place.
 
Tool

Saw Tool last month.
The 1998 & the 2001 shows were much better. Lots of Aenima & 10,000 Days. Some Lateralus & Undertow. Never any Opiate (which is always a disappointment for me).
Maynard seemed less engaged with the audience. He stayed at the back of the stage, side-profile silhouette.
Adam Jones & Justin Chancellor at the front & Danny Carey at the back were great but not showy.
I was just happy to see them. But this was no where near one of my favorite shows. Not for Tool, not for any band. It was not a spiritual experience.
:star3: (being generous)
 
RAC42 said:
How was it? I am off to Toronto to see them on Sept. 17
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It was FANTASTIC! You're going to love it and have the time of your life. Best concert ever for production. you will be amazed. The setlist for both nights were great. They changed it around a bit the second night- took out Pride and Bad and added Your Blue Room (Passengers) UTEOTW and They keep leaving TUF at all the shows (My favorite song ever by them)

Where are you sitting? Seats or GA--I had both and I preferred GA only because you are so close to them, even in the back.

HAVE A GREAT TIME!! I know you will
 
Isabell said:
It was FANTASTIC! You're going to love it and have the time of your life. Best concert ever for production. you will be amazed. The setlist for both nights were great. They changed it around a bit the second night- took out Pride and Bad and added Your Blue Room (Passengers) UTEOTW and They keep leaving TUF at all the shows (My favorite song ever by them)

Where are you sitting? Seats or GA--I had both and I preferred GA only because you are so close to them, even in the back.

HAVE A GREAT TIME!! I know you will
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It was a great show, we had seats behind the stage, but they were so close that they were good spots. We were right close to the stairs when they came off at the end and got to see them up close then. The video screen thing was something else, incredible. The show I was at, they took out Pride & Bad and played New Years Day & Mysterious Ways. I was looking forward to Pride, but New Years Day was great.
 
I'm seeing Agalloch in Portland on Halloween weekend. Can't wait to get back up to the northwest.
 
RAC42 said:
It was a great show, we had seats behind the stage, but they were so close that they were good spots. We were right close to the stairs when they came off at the end and got to see them up close then. The video screen thing was something else, incredible. The show I was at, they took out Pride & Bad and played New Years Day & Mysterious Ways. I was looking forward to Pride, but New Years Day was great.
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We didn't get NYD or Myst Ways. My Daughter would have loved to hear MY.

My son, however, was thrilled to get Ultraviolet
 
last concert was Oasis here in Lima Perú

I'm glad I got to see them before they disband

anyway, good concerte, they didnt say anything in spanish but it was ok :D
 
Black Lips last night at Detroit Bar down in OC.


If you're cool enough, you can check em out on YouTube. "Bad Kids" is where you'll get hooked.
But you're probably not cool enough.
 
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