Comments | fannishliss: Garbage! Fantastic rock show at the Fillmore

fannishliss

Garbage! Fantastic rock show at the Fillmore

Mar 25, 2013 11:24

Not all of y'all might know that I am a musician and that music is a huge part of my life.... I love hard rock and women's rock and all kinds of music, and last night my husband and son and I went to the Fillmore, Silver Spring MD, to see amazing amazing Shirley Manson and Garbage.

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wander_realtai March 25 2013, 15:35:21 UTC

Oooh, Garbage! I love them. Glad you had a good time at the concert!

fannishliss March 25 2013, 18:08:02 UTC

yes, they were fantastic. I had no idea what to expect -- Butch is 57 now!!! But they were in great shape and very excited to be touring. Their new album is on their own label, and they are talking about getting back in the studio soon, and it's just very awesome!

Imagine, in my icon, the rat is excited to be at the rock show!! :)

bas_math_girl March 25 2013, 17:12:31 UTC

Erm...the nearest I've got to a rock concert is seeing a production of Rock of Ages; and I'd never even heard of Garbage and Shirley Manson until I read this just now. I did watch the video - does that work in my favour?

It sounds like you had an utterly terrific time though. :D

fannishliss March 25 2013, 18:00:39 UTC

Yeah, I'm very hard rock -- but I was also raised listening to country, and I perform Old Time, and was classically trained as a singer -- so virtually every kind of music is awesome to me.

I love a rock show but I only go every so often -- once every three or four years maybe. This was a great one! We really did enjoy it. And I was especially glad my son had a good time at his first show. It would be awful to have all that loudness and such sore feet, and so much waiting around for them to come on -- and then be disappointed. We were rewarded!!! :)

the guy in my icon is Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin -- I've seen him three times, twice with Jimmy Page. :)

bleodswean March 25 2013, 17:59:19 UTC

Fantastic!

Your love of Garbage...almost makes me want to try them again. ;) What a nice testimonial to why you love them!

fannishliss March 25 2013, 18:06:08 UTC

The caveat is they range across such a wide variety of tones. They can be super hard rock one minute and then very pop the next, and sometimes almost uber sentimental. I love that. Shirley writes a lot of the material (though not all, because the whole band is very strong) so it's one of those things where you get the whole emotional landscape of a powerful creative woman. I love it ( ... )