sonickteam2
Joined: Unknown
Posts: 0
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 13, 2003 at 03:33 PM UTC
#
Well, I thought the show SUCKED. It was just horrible.
OK, actually, i didint get in because i didnt get there until 10pm and it was sold out. Drove all that way in the rain. Bastard. The will call line was off the hook and i guess people still eat those service charges like they're going out of style. hope everyone had fun!
jadetree
Joined: April 22, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 3161
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 13, 2003 at 03:33 PM UTC
#
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
(great song -what was that?)
You Come In Burned
Jaguär
Joined: Unknown
Posts: 0
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 13, 2003 at 05:17 PM UTC
#
Though there were sound problems here and there, I really liked the show. Something about that band, I've found that people either love them or hate them. Obviously, I'm one of those who love them. They have that excited yet relaxed Velvet Underground sound that I've always loved. The band themselves seemed very tight. It's just the sound that was off at times. Way too much bottom on Bohemian Like Me.
Don't know if anyone else noticed or not, but when they started playing Last High (one of my favorite songs) Zia lit up a rolled cigarette. At first I thought that it was a joint but I never got a whiff of anything but tobacco, which I got way too much of all night with the damned chain smokers around me and packed up front of the stage. At least I only had 2 people in front of me and they were both very short women. :D I ended up with a great view!
Yes Sparx, it was great meeting you. Sorry you and the guys couldn't stay longer. Oh, and thankx! ;)
walkman
Joined: Unknown
Posts: 0
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 13, 2003 at 05:35 PM UTC
#
Loved it. Managed to squeeze my way up to the front (the benefits of no-arse), just in time for We Used To Be Friends. Agree with Kurosawa that from that point on, the show really took off. Definitely not a night for someone new to the band â?? I attribute some of the crowd's lack of energy to having only heard Bohemian. But it didn't really bother me…I was way too busy enjoying myself. As it were.
Doctor Doom
Joined: April 23, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 3745
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 13, 2003 at 07:14 PM UTC
#
Jaguär, you should've said hi ;)
Rhett Miller
Joined: November 15, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 17762
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 04:12 AM UTC
#
The Dandy Warhols At the 9:30 Club
At the 9:30 club on Friday night, the Dandy Warhols were the epitome of cocky rock-star swagger. Throughout the evening the Portland dream-pop quartet's frontman, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, kept his lips fixed in a smirking Mick Jagger pucker. Next to him, keyboardist and singer Zia McCabe swayed the night away with a confident sensuality, often with her eyes closed and a maraca or tambourine swinging languidly in her hand. Asking at one point for a sound system adjustment, Taylor-Taylor explained, "I can't hear anything except the drums and me. Which is not bad. I'm pretty good!" All this self-assurance led to a wildly uneven show, a nearly three-hour epic that was at turns mesmerizing and soporific, intoxicating and irritating. At their best, the Dandy Warhols created a decadent, blissed-out sound built around surging bass lines, swirling guitars and Taylor-Taylor's ever-sultry vocals. Several songs like "Be In," "Godless," "Solid" and their sassy new single, "We Used to Be Friends," hit this mark solidly.
At other times the Dandys seemed to confuse self-assurance with self-indulgence. Several tunes dragged on endlessly, detouring into tedious ambient jams of floating guitars and trippy electronic effects. These stretches apparently strove for hypnosis, but mainly achieved boredom. (During one such lull, a fan wondered if guitarist Pete Holmstrom, mysteriously fiddling with an onstage computer, was secretly checking his e-mail.) One suspects the blame for this lack of discipline lies with Taylor-Taylor, who rambled variously about the deaths of Johnny Cash and John Ritter, and at one point sang a languid version of Duran Duran's "Rio," accompanied by just his guitar. Undisciplined indulgences like these were sometimes charming. But about 30 minutes less of them would have been a lot dandier.
Barcelona
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 1342
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 02:08 PM UTC
#
Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
Originally posted by Barcelona:
I left after a few songs. I thought they were terrible..
Shit, sorry Barcelona, I really thought you would have liked it.
Well I like the extremes of posativity and negativity on the board this morning. I can understand Kurosawa's well reasoned appreciation, even if I think she is crazy for liking the Courtney on drums bit.
Barcelona, why didnt you like the show, other than saying it was really bad, you just say it was really bad. What was so bad about it in your opinion?
No problem, I've always liked this board for this specific reason, you get to know and see new bands. In my case, I've liked most of the bands I've known thanks to the board. In this case, this was an exception, but no problem.
I didn't like (and didn't hear much) the guitars and the voice of the lead singer made me almost fall asleep. I thought the keyboard didn't bring anything special to the music. I was waiting for some sort of psychedelia in their music, but I thought it was an extremely boring and unspecial music. Throughout the show, I thought these guys could learn a lot from Pavement, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Pixies, and even the keyboard of Ballboy.
markie
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 13178
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 02:22 PM UTC
#
Originally posted by Barcelona:
I thought these guys could learn a lot from Pavement, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Pixies, and even the keyboard of Ballboy.
Ok, I am still on the fence about the show…… I actually align most with the reviewer, which is unusual for me.
The songs really did lack any edge and when they were rocky they really didnt pack much, if any, punch. When I closed my eyes and listened most of it sounded good, even great, but it was more like listening to my hi-fi at home than being at a show. It really didnt help my experience that the crowd were totally lame, from the lack of dancing, that is probably literally lame.
But then godless was really great live.
Venerable Bede
Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 3863
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 04:59 PM UTC
#
personally, i thought the show was excellent. but then, i love the sprawling guitar-effect laden soundscapes. . .and almost 3 hours of it was fantastic. could have done without courtney's take on the drums though. . .and i would have rather heard the album version of "rave up" as opposed to that mish-mash that was played. otherwise, the show was just kept building and building up momentum, until the aforementioned conclusion with rave up, but by then, i was satisfied.
course, i've seen them before (1995 or so) before 20 or so people in san jose, and they were not at all interested in playing that show. compared to that show, they've come a long way and have fully grown into fantastic band on album and live.
Fico
Joined: Unknown
Posts: 0
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 05:32 PM UTC
#
So I take it the Zia bird didn't play with her tits to the crowd?? wasn't the whole point of watching the dandies play seeing her play tambourine while her tits bounce up and down? glad I didn't go.. looking forward to BRMC on thursday..
Rhett Miller
Joined: November 15, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 17762
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 06:17 PM UTC
#
Yes, women were put here on earth to please men.
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Jaguär:
more hot guys to blow us away on Thursday night :roll:
Shouldn't that be the other way round??
SPARX
Joined: December 13, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 2070
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 06:52 PM UTC
#
Hey all,just wanted to say it was good to meet a few of you all the other night(Jag,Kurosawa,Jadetree,Markie)where were you GGW?,albeit briefly.Jag,thanks for the disc,I'd heard none of it before.Standouts so far would be the Statistics and BSP but I need to absorb it more.As for the show,I was content with it.They played about everything i wanted to hear,they were all coherent and seemed to be glad to be there.My favorite had to be their psychedelic cover of the Stooges Loose,wasn't expecting that.It was easily the most subdued I've seen them but I'll take that anyday as long as they got the tunes right and I didn't notice many mistakes,and they clocked in at about 3 hours,don't get that much from anybody these days.Well worth the price of admission..Hope you guys enjoy the discs I burned and maybe you even found something new to your liking.Hopefully next time I can stick around to shoot the breeze,but my ride had to be back home for work,we got back about 530 am.Damn rain!Anybody going to B/more for BJM?Kurosawa,i also dug courtney on You come in Burned,one of my faves from the new disc that I didn't expect to hear.So,anything stand out on the discs you all got?
SPARX
Joined: December 13, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 2070
Re: Dandy Warhols vs The Clientele
September 15, 2003 at 06:55 PM UTC
#
I just noticed an addendum to my inquiry regarding recording the show.Unfortunately I didn't get the update.Did anybody record it?I have a vault of boots. i'd gladly trade anyone who recorded the show.Thanks!