I feel so lucky.
I FUCKIN SAW SEBADOH LAST NIGHT, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD EATITUPEATITUPEATITUPEATITUP
Yeah I only found out about it like, less than an hour before the show actually started... just casually browsing the local Toronto newspaper and noticed the page on Horseshoe Tavern shows - there in big letters, "Sebadoh" with openers Raising the Fawn. Anyhoo. I walked there in about 5 minutes and it was sold out :( I stood around for some reason, I don't know why. Maybe hoping the bouncer dude there would pity me enough to let me in. Maybe waiting for a scalper :P Actually, the bouncer dude said if I wanted to get in I could just wait around for awhile until someone came who maybe had an extra ticket. Totally condoning scalping :P So I waited. A ton of people came expecting to just go in and buy tickets but the guy was like "sorry dudes it's sold out" and he had to tell about a hundred people this. So yeah some random dude comes up for a moment, old and stuff probably wanting to just drink, I mean what are old people doing going to a punk rock show anyhow??? That pissed me off. All these old people going to see Sebadoh and none of them has an extra ticket for a young person like me who's the one supposed to go to punk rock shows, someone who's not even legally allowed to go into a bar for another year (heeheehee... :P the legal age for drinking is 19 in Canada). Um. So yeah the random dude didn't have a ticket and I've been standing there about half an hour and he's just come up and then some people come up who have an extra ticket and so they go to *him* and sell it to *him*. I mean, what the fuck????
Alright enough ranting about that. The point is, eventually someone *did* have an extra ticket and I paid them 15 bucks and I GOT IN. Boy I'm hella-lucky the dude wasn't checking ID. I mean I'd called Dan Soto already and he told me that I *had* to see this show so I figured I was on a mission and even if I really wasn't legally allowed in there, I should go anyhow. It's not like I'm going to drink booze anyhow.
I felt like I was gonna die I mean my heart was just racing with excitement that I'd actually gotten into this show and that I was gonna see one of my favourite bands EVER on probably one of their last tours EVER (since they're now broken up and all) well in any case the opening band was just EXCELLENT. One of the best opening bands I've ever seen, ranking right up there next to the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (and Bloodred Sunset :D ) They were called Raising the Fawn and I bought their new CD based solely on that performance. Really really *really* good lead singer. They're Canadian. Figures.
So after their last song, which was like a 15-minute long indie-prog jam in the vein of like, early Sonic Youth or something (in other words, totally excellent) I went to buy the CD. And the dude there seemed cool, only I didn't fucking realize until Sebadoh actually got onstage later that he was Jason Loewenstein. The other dude from Sebadoh who's not Lou Barlow and who's not Eric Gaffney (who decided not to go on tour with them) and just forget about Bob Fay. But he sold me a Sebadoh t-shirt and the RTF CD and he gave me a big thank you and everything I guess because I bought $30 of stuff but now I feel really awesome because it was *Jason Loewenstein* who had thanked me so heartily. I wish now that I'd tried to get him into a conversation about The Residents or something. He digs that kind of music. Come to think of it, considering I used to be such a Lou Barlow fan before, I think it's weird that I think I actually prefer Jason now. And I wish I'd remembered what he looks like. You don't see many pictures of him in magazines or anything, it's always Lou, Lou, Lou. I wish I'd recognized him.
Oh a guy also commented on my Mission of Burma shirt and I told him I saw them live and he was pretty impressed :D
Aw man... Sebadoh. With Lou Barlow on acoustic guitar/classical guitar and Jason Loewenstein on distorted bass and a drum machine. So fucking SWEET. And I was close too!!!!! The Tavern is really a pretty small place. They did "On Fire," they did "Soul and Fire," they did "Flame," all those songs about fire. All of which are really sweet. They did "Nothing Like You," which is like, my fave Loewenstein song. Dammmn!!! I would have liked to tell him I liked his solo album. There was this girl in the crowd screaming about it and I was about to be like "AT SIXES AND SEVENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" because that's the name of the album. It's pretty great. I screamed for them to "PLAY THE RESIDENTS!" a couple times but I don't think Jason heard. They did "Freed Pig," they did "Magnet's Coil," they did "Rebound," I sort of wished they'd done more off of Sebadoh III but I just read an article saying Lou wasn't going to play any Eric Gaffney songs in fear of Eric getting more angry at him and there's a lot of Eric songs on that album. But I wish they'd at least done uh... "Kath" or "Kathleen" I forget which one... is the name of a Lou song on that album that I really like. I wish they'd played it.
All in all, really fuckin sweet show. I love you, Jason and Lou. I gotta go. I'm meeting Kate in about 40 minutes.
Yeah I only found out about it like, less than an hour before the show actually started... just casually browsing the local Toronto newspaper and noticed the page on Horseshoe Tavern shows - there in big letters, "Sebadoh" with openers Raising the Fawn. Anyhoo. I walked there in about 5 minutes and it was sold out :( I stood around for some reason, I don't know why. Maybe hoping the bouncer dude there would pity me enough to let me in. Maybe waiting for a scalper :P Actually, the bouncer dude said if I wanted to get in I could just wait around for awhile until someone came who maybe had an extra ticket. Totally condoning scalping :P So I waited. A ton of people came expecting to just go in and buy tickets but the guy was like "sorry dudes it's sold out" and he had to tell about a hundred people this. So yeah some random dude comes up for a moment, old and stuff probably wanting to just drink, I mean what are old people doing going to a punk rock show anyhow??? That pissed me off. All these old people going to see Sebadoh and none of them has an extra ticket for a young person like me who's the one supposed to go to punk rock shows, someone who's not even legally allowed to go into a bar for another year (heeheehee... :P the legal age for drinking is 19 in Canada). Um. So yeah the random dude didn't have a ticket and I've been standing there about half an hour and he's just come up and then some people come up who have an extra ticket and so they go to *him* and sell it to *him*. I mean, what the fuck????
Alright enough ranting about that. The point is, eventually someone *did* have an extra ticket and I paid them 15 bucks and I GOT IN. Boy I'm hella-lucky the dude wasn't checking ID. I mean I'd called Dan Soto already and he told me that I *had* to see this show so I figured I was on a mission and even if I really wasn't legally allowed in there, I should go anyhow. It's not like I'm going to drink booze anyhow.
I felt like I was gonna die I mean my heart was just racing with excitement that I'd actually gotten into this show and that I was gonna see one of my favourite bands EVER on probably one of their last tours EVER (since they're now broken up and all) well in any case the opening band was just EXCELLENT. One of the best opening bands I've ever seen, ranking right up there next to the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (and Bloodred Sunset :D ) They were called Raising the Fawn and I bought their new CD based solely on that performance. Really really *really* good lead singer. They're Canadian. Figures.
So after their last song, which was like a 15-minute long indie-prog jam in the vein of like, early Sonic Youth or something (in other words, totally excellent) I went to buy the CD. And the dude there seemed cool, only I didn't fucking realize until Sebadoh actually got onstage later that he was Jason Loewenstein. The other dude from Sebadoh who's not Lou Barlow and who's not Eric Gaffney (who decided not to go on tour with them) and just forget about Bob Fay. But he sold me a Sebadoh t-shirt and the RTF CD and he gave me a big thank you and everything I guess because I bought $30 of stuff but now I feel really awesome because it was *Jason Loewenstein* who had thanked me so heartily. I wish now that I'd tried to get him into a conversation about The Residents or something. He digs that kind of music. Come to think of it, considering I used to be such a Lou Barlow fan before, I think it's weird that I think I actually prefer Jason now. And I wish I'd remembered what he looks like. You don't see many pictures of him in magazines or anything, it's always Lou, Lou, Lou. I wish I'd recognized him.
Oh a guy also commented on my Mission of Burma shirt and I told him I saw them live and he was pretty impressed :D
Aw man... Sebadoh. With Lou Barlow on acoustic guitar/classical guitar and Jason Loewenstein on distorted bass and a drum machine. So fucking SWEET. And I was close too!!!!! The Tavern is really a pretty small place. They did "On Fire," they did "Soul and Fire," they did "Flame," all those songs about fire. All of which are really sweet. They did "Nothing Like You," which is like, my fave Loewenstein song. Dammmn!!! I would have liked to tell him I liked his solo album. There was this girl in the crowd screaming about it and I was about to be like "AT SIXES AND SEVENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" because that's the name of the album. It's pretty great. I screamed for them to "PLAY THE RESIDENTS!" a couple times but I don't think Jason heard. They did "Freed Pig," they did "Magnet's Coil," they did "Rebound," I sort of wished they'd done more off of Sebadoh III but I just read an article saying Lou wasn't going to play any Eric Gaffney songs in fear of Eric getting more angry at him and there's a lot of Eric songs on that album. But I wish they'd at least done uh... "Kath" or "Kathleen" I forget which one... is the name of a Lou song on that album that I really like. I wish they'd played it.
All in all, really fuckin sweet show. I love you, Jason and Lou. I gotta go. I'm meeting Kate in about 40 minutes.