GBV Roll Call

I thought about leaving before the encore on Saturday and I am sooooo glad I didn't…. definitely a show I will always remember….
just a fantastic GBV experience.

i stuck it out till the end, although the end is kinda hazy. fan-fucking-tastic

How do you guys stay awake until 2:30 in the morning and actually enjoy it? That much about attending concerts, I'll never understand.

meth

stayed till the end, and lost my voice during the night. an all-around great show, i somehow survived the entire night at the front. course, my knee was killing me the next morning. :)

looking forward to the new years eve show. . .

Originally posted by pollard:
I had more fun on Friday in Philadelphia but the perfomance was better at 9:30.

I think the "more fun" in Phillie the night before is the reason for the "less fun" show on Saturday! Glad to hear the 9:30 performance was good in comparison, though. I couldn't have made it two nights in a row myself….aaah, youth.

doesn't help that the 9:30 is so tightly packed in when it is sold out.

Although, the crowd "loosened up" quite a bit by the end of the first hour. We were about 10 people back, and for the second 2/3s of the show had plenty of space to dance and jump around.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Remember this when you guys make fun of HFS shows and bands that you dont like that do this kind of stuff. This is your band and your music now.

I don't think that HFS-type bands get slammed here for drinking or being rowdy during a show (hell, AWK is a favorite here….). The slags usually come because the music is lame….totally different complaint.

I surprised myself by making it to the end. I was so sure I was gonna leave early that I made alternate plans. I stuck it out though, and it was well worth it. Many thanks to a certain board member who provided me with a place to sit down for the last half-hour. I must've looked pretty tired - haha :)

I was very happy to see Tommy Keene get such a great response from the crowd. He was one of those "he's gonna be HUGE" folks from the early DC days, but he never really broke through. Good to see him get some recognition and respect.

Now if I could just find "Songs From The Film" on CD…

So moshing isn't cool cause people at GBV concerts don't do it, but throwing beer at each other is? And usually rushing the stage and dancing up there isnt cool either, but now all of a sudden it is cause it happended at a GBV concert. Usually its the frat boys or teenage girls that get slammed for doing stuff like that. Glad you all had a good time though, thats whats important. :)

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Now if I could just find "Songs From The Film" on CD…

It's out there….if you don't need an original copy, let me know. ;)

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Now if I could just find "Songs From The Film" on CD…

It's out there….if you don't need an original copy, let me know. ;)

Look for the 1998 CD re-issue which includes most of the "Run Now" EP…

if you didn't stay until the end, then you definitely missed the best part of the show. hard to beat an encore of "a salty salute," "motor away," "teenage fbi," "glad girls," "echos myron" and "i am a scientist." it was nice to see tommy (who indeed fucking rocked) out there singing with bob, i was getting a little verklempt.

i think it took a while for gbv to get into the groove, but i guess you can afford to do that when you play for three hours. by my watch it was a little closer to 2 hours and 40 minutes, but who's complaining? i think the video before they came on was done by the same folks who made the video for W at the republican convention. i was just waiting for that "rugged man voice" to come over the loudspeakers and say, "and despite drinking a combined 94 beers over the course of the show up to that point, all of them being in desperate need of taking a leak, and no one being able to see straight, let alone stand upright, the band played one of the best versions of 'tractor rape chain' ever."

being a last-minute-larry as usual, I missed this one 'cuz it sold out. :( I can't imagine a 3-hour set, though, my attention span can't accommodate anything that long no matter how good!

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Look for the 1998 CD re-issue which includes most of the "Run Now" EP…

This is what I have, Chutney…My original CD was stolen in 1989 :( , but you get "Run Now"!

I was calling out for "Marylin Monroe". I know he probably had a pretty specific set list, but I figured it'd just be good to know there were longtime fans in the audience. He said thank you, in fact! <img src="http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/swoon.gif" alt=" - " />

The Tommy Keene folks were taping for use in a DVD.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
So moshing isn't cool cause people at GBV concerts don't do it, but throwing beer at each other is? And usually rushing the stage and dancing up there isnt cool either, but now all of a sudden it is cause it happended at a GBV concert. Usually its the frat boys or teenage girls that get slammed for doing stuff like that. Glad you all had a good time though, thats whats important. :)

well, there was much moshing at the magnet mag party last year, during the gbv set. i broke my spiderman watch.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
So moshing isn't cool cause people at GBV concerts don't do it, but throwing beer at each other is? And usually rushing the stage and dancing up there isnt cool either, but now all of a sudden it is cause it happended at a GBV concert. Usually its the frat boys or teenage girls that get slammed for doing stuff like that. Glad you all had a good time though, thats whats important. :)

Rob, who said:
(1) moshing isn't cool
(2) throwing beer is cool
(3) that anyone rushed the stage at GBV, and
(4) dancing up front by the stage is not good?

You're extrapolating a lot….again, I think you're confusing slams about certain bands music with slams about show behavior (though one point to make – the GBV show was packed, but people weren't pushing or elbowing or exhibiting particularly asshole-ish behavior, which does make a difference and is a crowd thing…)

I'll be the minority, possibly of one, and say that A) I thought Tommy Keene's opening set was somewhat boring, and B) his high-pitched squeal of a voice sounded TERRIBLE on Teenage FBI and Glad Girls. For the last ever encore of a GBV show, I want to hear Bob braying to the masses, not Tommy Keene. I, and most of the people around me, were very glad when he finally got off the damn stage and let GBV finish their own damn show.

Great time other than that. I am a Tree was a highpoint, as was the Sad if I Lost It opener, and Buzzards and Dreadful Crows.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
I want to hear Bob braying to the masses, not Tommy Keene. I, and most of the people around me, were very glad when he finally got off the damn stage and let GBV finish their own damn show.

A friend who was at the show with me agrees with you completely. I happen to love Keene a lot, and I loved the encore. But, if GBV were one of my absolute faves, I'd probably feel the same way (though after 2.5 hours, does it really detract much?).

I agree though – Keene's voice is perfect for his songs, and Bob's voice is perfect for his songs….

For an encore and in particular, a last show, I can undestand. Sometimes I don't like it when bands alter or botch their encore / popular songs.

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by Relaxer:
I want to hear Bob braying to the masses, not Tommy Keene. I, and most of the people around me, were very glad when he finally got off the damn stage and let GBV finish their own damn show.

(though after 2.5 hours, does it really detract much?).