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[subtledagger]

So the HM show was last night, and although i'm still really sad to see that band go, they put on a hell of a show to go out...The Metro was sold out, from what I could tell, so it was a great way to go...I've seen them 7-8 times now, and that was easily the best i've ever heard them sound...Amazing setlist too, 21 songs, spanning their entire (all

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[toko2000]

Not to brag, but "Roulette Systems" was my doing. I had a long talk with Mike at a show here in Cleveland a few weeks ago and sold him on the idea of playing it.

Thanks so much for that video, too; it rules.

[subtledagger]

haha, yeah i saw you onstage...lucky bastard

and good call on roulette systems, that has to be the only time they've ever played it...half the reason i was so upset when they split is the promise they showed in that song...so good

by the way, did we ever get a concrete reason for the breakup? i have my suspicions, but they were always kind of vague about it...

[toko2000]

It was the first and last performance, yes. I was half-hoping they'd dedicate it to me, but oh well. :)

And as for the breakup: I'm sure each guy has their own personal reasons, but what Mike told me last month was, "There's no place for a band like Hey Mercedes in today's musical climate." He said they didn't hate each other or anything; it was simply just an issue of wrong place, wrong time.

The worst thing is, there's virtually no chance they'll ever get back together, because they'll never be viewed as influential as Braid or anything.

[subtledagger]

Yeah, I don't know, the whole thing just kind of struck me as fishy, considering bob was teasing of new tour dates a week before they imploded...Oh well, sadly they're right, they don't have a gimmick to go on, they're just a solid rock band, which sadly is not the way to go if you want to make a living in music

[toko2000]

As of late November 2004, they were still planning on going to that cabin up north again and writing LP3 in January '05. I think they were all probably debating back and forth for a while over the whole thing. It's not like Vagrant was giving them any support, anyway; and they were all still massively in debt.

I'll tell you what, though: I'd have a real hard time hanging it up if I was the one bowing in front of that crowd last night. The Metro was fucking loud. You can even hear it on your video. I can't remember the last time I was at a show where the crowd was that loud and unified.

[subtledagger]

Yeah, I also heard (huge grain of salt) that they wanted to do one last tour, but vagrant wouldn't help them out...I loved how they didn't even get a mention on the vagrant website, they were simply deleted from the band list...nice

And you're right about the metro, I havent heard it that loud in a looooooong time, and i've certainly never seen such an active crowd at a Hey Mercedes show...It was good to see

[hornyhousewife]

It's definitely true... I don't know though. Hey Mercedes always reminded me a little bit of Foo Fighters, in that both bands really don't have a gimmick, they just wrote incredibly good songs. Foo Fighters granted had the whole ex-Nirvana thing when they started out, but they've completely transcended that and have become a powerful force of their own. I don't know how much HM used the ex-Braid thing when they started out, I think if they had gotten any promotion and maybe gotten on some better tours...

Who knows though, I'm at least glad that I finally got to see them, I couldn't have picked a better first HM show to go to.