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the show tonight was fantastic... their background setup was beautiful and more extravagant than I had ever seen them put up.
before hand, I was thinking... 'okay the show starts at eight, that's when the doors open! I'm sure the opening act is at nine and sonic youth at like, 10/10:30' yet I decided... 'well I should walk by and see if I hear any music.' I don't. but I do see a sign: Sonic Youth 9 - 11! AH HOLY SHIT! I had ten minutes to get myself inside. also- I fucking hate the roseland... the sound is okay, tonight it worked well for the band even though almost 100% of the time the crystal is better. yet the security is bullshit. I walk through the metal detector, whatever... but then they take ten minutes to search this one guys bag. it just took forever and he was before me. well I finally got in and they went on within ten minutes. the air conditioning was broken! and it was one hundred degrees outside! and in a crowd, the body heat always makes it worse. perhaps this is what made the crowd so tame, throughout most of the show nobody was really moving, at least not intensely. aside from moving in and out of the way of people and the casually head bopping to the music everyone was rather just in awe at the band, which made it more enjoyable considering the intensity of seattle. they played for two hours this time, and hearing the new album for the second time live made me enjoy it twice as much. they played stereo sanctity as they did in seattle yet exchanged skip tracer (which I was not expecting at all), silver rocket, pacific coast highway, shadow of the doubt for... hey joni and cross the breeze. making the seattle show all that much more worth it. and they ended with death valley again, I was able to make it to near front by the first encore, and the very front for the second. anyway, that may have been the best show I have seen of them, even though I may have preferred a few different songs, it all just came together very well. kim encouraged us all to do yoga while thurston was fixing his guitar... and lee asked who biked their (I did!). next tour? I see all the west coast shows. no fucking joke.
and tomorrow I get a new cell phone. finally.
before hand, I was thinking... 'okay the show starts at eight, that's when the doors open! I'm sure the opening act is at nine and sonic youth at like, 10/10:30' yet I decided... 'well I should walk by and see if I hear any music.' I don't. but I do see a sign: Sonic Youth 9 - 11! AH HOLY SHIT! I had ten minutes to get myself inside. also- I fucking hate the roseland... the sound is okay, tonight it worked well for the band even though almost 100% of the time the crystal is better. yet the security is bullshit. I walk through the metal detector, whatever... but then they take ten minutes to search this one guys bag. it just took forever and he was before me. well I finally got in and they went on within ten minutes. the air conditioning was broken! and it was one hundred degrees outside! and in a crowd, the body heat always makes it worse. perhaps this is what made the crowd so tame, throughout most of the show nobody was really moving, at least not intensely. aside from moving in and out of the way of people and the casually head bopping to the music everyone was rather just in awe at the band, which made it more enjoyable considering the intensity of seattle. they played for two hours this time, and hearing the new album for the second time live made me enjoy it twice as much. they played stereo sanctity as they did in seattle yet exchanged skip tracer (which I was not expecting at all), silver rocket, pacific coast highway, shadow of the doubt for... hey joni and cross the breeze. making the seattle show all that much more worth it. and they ended with death valley again, I was able to make it to near front by the first encore, and the very front for the second. anyway, that may have been the best show I have seen of them, even though I may have preferred a few different songs, it all just came together very well. kim encouraged us all to do yoga while thurston was fixing his guitar... and lee asked who biked their (I did!). next tour? I see all the west coast shows. no fucking joke.
and tomorrow I get a new cell phone. finally.