YYY roll call and question

Just got back from the show. The highlight for me was standing by the soundboard watching the engineer throw his hands in the air because there was nothing he could do. The sound reminded me of the Black Cat on a really bad night. I've never heard it sound so bad in there. I thought the performance was flat as well but this was also night one of their tour.

i thought it was a pretty decent show, but they had some feedback problems like you read about.

i was not impressed. i think they jumped the shark. their best material is behind them. they used to be one of the wildest, loudest, edgyest bands around. granted i have not seen them in 2 yrs, but their old material is best. as for the sound, it was pretty bad. how can the arctic monkeys sound so good from first note to last and the yyy's sound so bad thru the same system? must be the soundman.

the feedback was really getting annoying – every song contained at least one big loud hum.

the energy was pretty low overall, and except for maybe "gold lion" almost all the new tunes sound better on record …

I was happy with it. It was way too short though.
Blood On The Wall was very impressive. I think I'll check out their recordings…

how long was their set?

Blood on the Wall was horrible and the YYYs set was an hour long. Perhaps maybe a few minutes longer than that. Are you guys forgetting that the songs on the YYYs EPs and first album are like 2 minutes long each? That explains the short set feeling.

All in all I thought it was a good show…Interesting to see Karen and Nick interact on stage…What was the third song they asked the crowd if they wanted to hear as the final song that no one cheered for?

It seemed to me that Nick got into the old songs more than the new ones.

A few crowd Highlight: the young kid, maybe 12, in the slim fit jeans, air force ones, and the black hoodie. so young, yet so jaded…and the drunk guy in the yankees shirt that kept making a butterfly with his hands and let his friends spit beer on him.

…Blood on the Wall would have been better had they turned the bass down…

Also, who was the DJ last night?

can someone please post YYY's set list from their performance last night?

YYY's are basically a poor man's Metric.

Cost of ticket to YYY:$25
Cost of ticket to Metric:$15 (I think)

So you have it backwards.

Originally posted by beedubyah:
YYY's are basically a poor man's Metric.

Originally posted by lbcardoni:
All in all I thought it was a good show…Interesting to see Karen and Nick interact on stage…What was the third song they asked the crowd if they wanted to hear as the final song that no one cheered for?

It seemed to me that Nick got into the old songs more than the new ones.

A few crowd Highlight: the young kid, maybe 12, in the slim fit jeans, air force ones, and the black hoodie. so young, yet so jaded…and the drunk guy in the yankees shirt that kept making a butterfly with his hands and let his friends spit beer on him.

Song no one cheered for was "Porcelain." I suspect this was because no one recognized the title – it's the "hidden" track at the end of Fever To Tell. They ended up playing it anyway as their second encore.

You can download the show on NPR.com. I had been looking forward to this show for a while, the sound was so awful though and the energy was kinda low. That 'low-tone' feedback was killing me. It was so annoying, and the fact that the mix was mostly snare drum and vocals was terrible. YYY are a LOUD guitar band and I could barely even hear the guitars. I love the new record, but this show was such a let down… The main set clocked in at 42 minutes. It was a little over an hour with the encore. I want to see them again but not at 9:30 Club if it is going to sound so awful. On a related note, the mix on the NPR download sounds great… So odd. It's like two different concerts.

Originally posted by anarchist:
i was not impressed. i think they jumped the shark. their best material is behind them. they used to be one of the wildest, loudest, edgyest bands around. granted i have not seen them in 2 yrs, but their old material is best. as for the sound, it was pretty bad. how can the arctic monkeys sound so good from first note to last and the yyy's sound so bad thru the same system? must be the soundman.

yep. not much they could do about the bad sound (i felt bad for that sound guy, he spent the entire hour completely frustrated), but not even impeccable sound can save those new songs.

the guitar sounded like it was muffled by a thousand pillows.

Originally posted by Chevy Chase:
Song no one cheered for was "Porcelain." I suspect this was because no one recognized the title – it's the "hidden" track at the end of Fever To Tell. They ended up playing it anyway as their second encore.

Which is too bad – they should have ended with "Date with the Night," even though it would have meant a set of less than an hour.

I thought it was an okay show – there were a couple really good songs/performances, but I think generally I decided that I'm just so-so with the band overall. Even with the albums, there are a few songs I really like, and as many or more that I can do without. Not enough melody to carry many of the songs through for me.

I haven't seen YYYs since the Black Cat show with the Kills, three years ago nearly to the day. I wondered if Karen O was going to 'mainstream' her performance a bit. She has (no beer spewing last night), but she was daggone crazy back then. Though a friend who saw them in NYC a month ago said that show was much crazier from her, with the full mic swallows, etc. That was a Saturday night, and her parents were in the audience to impress. ;)

This was my first time seeing the YYYs. I had had a ticket to their show at the 9:30 Club a couple years ago on the "Fever to Tell" tour, but I couldn't attend due to a family member being in the hospital. Anyway, I was rather underwhelmed, which is all the more disappointing because I've really been enjoying their new album, "Show Your Bones," lately. (I disagree with amnesiac above; I think "Show Your Bones" is their best album yet.)

The concert started off well enough, but Karen O. just seemed lose momentum as the opening set wore on, and her limited vocal range became more and more evident and seemingly more pronounced outside of the context of the albums. She gets by on attitude and showmanship for the most, which count for a lot in a rock band frontperson. The opening set ended with a couple of lackluster performances on otherwise excellent songs. The encore didn't start off any better, unfortunately. The first encore did finish with one of the best performances of the night which rallied the audience into forcing the YYYs come back out for a second encore, which I found rather dissatisfying, ending the show on a low point. I agree with Bags that they shouldn't have even come out for the second encore. And, for a band with three albums of material, the concert was way too short. Overall, probably the most disappointing and unsatisfying concert I've been to in almost a year.

I have to say I disagree with some of the posts here…I thought the show was at least moderately entertaining, definitely not "disappointing," although maybe I wasn't expecting all THAT much. There was some annoying feedback at times, but I didn't think the sound was all that terrible, at least from where I spent most of the night, in the balcony. I've heard much worse sound at both the 930 and the Black Cat. The YYYs aren't my favorite band and I think some of their songs are a bit weak, but they brought the energy and gave an overall good performance. They didn't blow me away or anything, but I had a good time and the crowd seemed pretty into it.

This is how I felt, maybe it was a better show from the balcony (where I was for once, too). Maybe it would have been a louder show if the extra guy played on more songs instead of kneeling down and slapping his thighs.

Originally posted by kled:
I have to say I disagree with some of the posts here…I thought the show was at least moderately entertaining, definitely not "disappointing," although maybe I wasn't expecting all THAT much. There was some annoying feedback at times, but I didn't think the sound was all that terrible, at least from where I spent most of the night, in the balcony. I've heard much worse sound at both the 930 and the Black Cat. The YYYs aren't my favorite band and I think some of their songs are a bit weak, but they brought the energy and gave an overall good performance. They didn't blow me away or anything, but I had a good time and the crowd seemed pretty into it.

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
I disagree with amnesiac above; I think "Show Your Bones" is their best album yet

I think you meant anarchist. I really like the new album, more than "Fever to Tell"

I was really excited for this show, but like most everyone else, I wasn't too impressed. I hadn't seen YYYs live before and had some high expectations. It was a little too low energy, and not enough stuff from "Fever". I would like to have heard "Y Control"