Anyone seen anything good lately? So far this year I've seen the following in concert :
The Darkness
Marshall Crenshaw
Urge Overkill
The Smithereens
Man...that's only 4 concerts. Yikes. Aside from the music stuff, I did see these, too :
"The Walking Dead" Live
3 different Doug Benson "Movie Interruptions"
Superego w/Paul F. Tompkins at the KC ImprovFest
Seeing the Smithereens was a personal highlight...been a fan since, Jeezus, 1987? And I've had plans to see them live previously probably 3-4 times. But something's always gone wrong, & I couldn't make the show. I even historically referred to it as "The Smithereens Curse". So seeing them this summer ( for free, no less! ) was VERY satisfying.
I love that you mention going to Riot Fest, but without bringing up the Replacements "reunion". If it was me, I would've spewed 1,000 words on that alone.
That's a hell of a list, though. I wish the CBB tour would've gotten close to KC.
Last concert I went to was Billy Joel because my girlfriend is a huge fan. I like some of his stuff so I was able to enjoy my time there.
But these days concerts have kind of fallen off my radar with the daily rush of life going on around me.
Though if I can ever see Steel Panther live in c-bus I might just make time for that.
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Get the idea cross around the track Underneath the flank of thoroughbred racing chasers. Getting the feel as a river flows. Would you like to go 'n shoot the mountain masses?
I still go to a lot of shows, even though my mom just told me the other day I shouldn't because I'm "too old for that".. HA!!! Coming up I have Pearl Jam, The LOng Winters and Someone Still LOves You Boris Yeltsin.
Nice. I loved that band when they first came out ( after being a big Mother Love Bone guy before Seattle went ape**** ) . After 3 albums or so - I think the last one I bought was "Vitality" - for whatever reason I just kinda faded on them.
But I've always had this odd feeling that I may reconnect with their stuff at some point. My favorite tune of theirs actually comes from that Singles soundtrack :
