Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

Kind of… A bit more "rocking", I suppose. More guitars and less organs.
http://mtroyalbaltimore.bandcamp.com/track/missing-reward

atomic wrote:

hutch wrote:

atomic wrote:
I like how people on this board are talking about some Malkmus show at the Black Cat when the show of all time is happening at the Floristree.  So out of touch.

This is a joke, right? The show of all time is  Floristree?

;D

personally what I find pitiful are people who simply go to shows because they are "trendy"…

What?  I hate to tell you this but Malkmus solo stuff sucks balls.  The sooner  you and everyone lets him know this by not attending his shitty solo shows the sooner he stops touring solo and gets back together with Pavement again.

And you wonder why this is the show of the century?  Anyway I am hardly going to the show because it was trendy.  I have seen Beach House shows with 30 people at them.  And Wye Oak as an opener at many small club show and Celebration as well.  Loved Fleet Foxes before anyone else.  I love good music.

And Floristree is not a show it is a venue.  A venue that lets you bring your own beer.

LOL

killsaly wrote:
Atomic, will you be at Celebration on Friday?  Also, if you haven't seen Katrina's other band, Mt Royal, they play the Ottobar on 2/1.

I love, love, love Katrina Ford! She is probably my all time favorite female vocalist!

She bar tends at holy frijoles

fatskippy wrote:
Mike Gordon
9:30 Club
3/4

man I wonder how long the State Theatre can survive..they are losing every single staple act of theirs…. Gordon has played at least 2 or 3 times there… no more.  They've pretty much been left only with cover bands… i know their bookings were pretty weak the past few years but now they are nonexistent..

Legwarmers every night forever.

Julian, wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
I am doing a DJ set at at January's We Fought the Big One at Marx Cafe on 1/3 for anyone into that sort of thing.

Do you know each of the records by the feel of their grooves? I'm seriously asking.

i vaguely remember seeing a news story on a young Jeff Healey showing how he could do this.

edit: yup: "He could identify records by touch alone, abetted by his immaculate, eidetic memory. One night, on a visit to Los Angeles, he flabbergasted Steven Lasker and me with his shellac-detecting prowess. When I handed him a certain 78, he palmed it, probed its edge and surfaces with his fingertips, and said, ?Hmm. It?s an acoustic Victor ? Let?s see? number 18457. It?s the ODJB ? ?Ostrich Walk.? Nice condition, too.? A distinct hurl of the gauntlet, this. Steven and I took turns at this new game of ?Stump Jeff,? pulling increasingly obscure and anomalous records off the shelf. Nothing fazed him. ?Well ? this is obviously a Columbia product? about 1930, I reckon ? but with this matrix ? it?s got to be a Clarion. It?s ?Blue Again? by Ben Selvin, as ?Ford Britten and his Blue Comets?.? ? " (http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/a-few-more-words-about-jeff-healey-by-brad-kay/)

azaghal1981 wrote:
Primal Scream 5/8 Sixth and I

Weird.

Although hearing "Kill All Hippies" in a synagogue will be something.

for some reason i haven't been to a 6th & I show yet.  i had tickets for something a while back but couldn't make it.

anyhoo - what's the sound like in there?  based on pix, i'd imagine pretty reverb'y/echo'y.  i imagine it's great for acoustic/vocal-heavy/slower/etc stuff but how good does a rock band sound there? 

sweetcell wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Primal Scream 5/8 Sixth and I

Weird.

Although hearing "Kill All Hippies" in a synagogue will be something.

for some reason i haven't been to a 6th & I show yet.  i had tickets for something a while back but couldn't make it.

anyhoo - what's the sound like in there?  based on pix, i'd imagine pretty reverb'y/echo'y.  i imagine it's great for acoustic/vocal-heavy/slower/etc stuff but how good does a rock band sound there? 

Best venue in DC. 

i'm sorry.. sixth and i just doesn't strike me as the place i want to see primal scream…

It will sound just a little more shitty than DAR, so awful.

hutch wrote:
i'm sorry.. sixth and i just doesn't strike me as the place i want to see primal scream…

You complain too much about venues.  What is wrong with Sixth and I. Polyphonic Spree were amazing there.  Hope Sandoval sounded good there too.

I have seen Primal Scream a bunch of times and I would think this is a great venue to see them in. 

atomic wrote:

hutch wrote:
i'm sorry.. sixth and i just doesn't strike me as the place i want to see primal scream…

You complain too much about venues.  What is wrong with Sixth and I. Polyphonic Spree were amazing there.  Hope Sandoval sounded good there too.

I have seen Primal Scream a bunch of times and I would think this is a great venue to see them in. 

I would think 6th and I would be perfect for Hope Sandoval… no idea who Polyphonic Spree are other than a band Walky keeps yammering about…

I saw Chris Cornell there doing a solo acoustic show and for that it was great..

I just think Primal Scream is a rocking out band….they should have been booked for U Street Hall…

my only real complaint is always the same: I don't like seeing rock bands in places not created for rock shows….DAR is the same….my friend was talking to the roadies after Fogerty in Baltimore and they were laughing about how shitty DAR was and that they would only deploy 6 out of 30 or some such lights/stage props/not sure what.. in other words DAR was going to get a limited presentation of Fogerty's show on this tour….

and maybe I'm wrong about Primal Scream playing 6th and I…maybe it will be great..who the fuck knows..until the show.

the bigger problem is Primal Scream…they are very hit or miss. Mostly miss.

Vas wrote:
the bigger problem is Primal Scream…they are very hit or miss. Mostly miss.

Yes.  Kevin Shields isn't touring with them anymore.  Mani isn't either.  They have their own gigs/nostalgia trips.  I'll miss Bobby Gillespie and Mr. Shields leaving the stage every 10 minutes for "refreshments."  Even Courtney Love didn't do that.

Brian

The last club show was fantastic although Mani was there.



I agree with Hutch. Other than the awkward juxtapositions mentioned, this will not be the best venue for them.

Vas wrote:
the bigger problem is Primal Scream…they are very hit or miss. Mostly miss.

When I saw them on the Screamadelica tour in the early 90's they were pretty incredible.  One of thte best shows I have ever seen.  Saw them in San Francisco at the Fillmore with the three guitarists and they were just Ok.  Saw them at MPP and they were underwhelming.

Fillmore with Underworld?  I was there.  That was a terrible show. Underworld were great, though.

Well at least it's unusual. Having seen them at the club a couple times, I would have no interest in this show. But at a synagogue? Now I'm interested. I also can't imagine them blasting out the windows, which is why I go to a Primal Scream show, but there's a novelty factor at play.

hutch wrote:

atomic wrote:

hutch wrote:
i'm sorry.. sixth and i just doesn't strike me as the place i want to see primal scream…

You complain too much about venues.  What is wrong with Sixth and I. Polyphonic Spree were amazing there.  Hope Sandoval sounded good there too.

I have seen Primal Scream a bunch of times and I would think this is a great venue to see them in. 

I would think 6th and I would be perfect for Hope Sandoval… no idea who Polyphonic Spree are other than a band Walky keeps yammering about…

I saw Chris Cornell there doing a solo acoustic show and for that it was great..

I just think Primal Scream is a rocking out band….they should have been booked for U Street Hall…

my only real complaint is always the same: I don't like seeing rock bands in places not created for rock shows….DAR is the same….my friend was talking to the roadies after Fogerty in Baltimore and they were laughing about how shitty DAR was and that they would only deploy 6 out of 30 or some such lights/stage props/not sure what.. in other words DAR was going to get a limited presentation of Fogerty's show on this tour….

and maybe I'm wrong about Primal Scream playing 6th and I…maybe it will be great..who the fuck knows..until the show.

And the 930 club is made for rock shows?    Sixth & I blows the 930 club away.    I can't imagine anyone prefering 930 for any show over Sixth & I. 

atomic wrote:

hutch wrote:

atomic wrote:

hutch wrote:
i'm sorry.. sixth and i just doesn't strike me as the place i want to see primal scream…

You complain too much about venues.  What is wrong with Sixth and I. Polyphonic Spree were amazing there.  Hope Sandoval sounded good there too.

I have seen Primal Scream a bunch of times and I would think this is a great venue to see them in. 

I would think 6th and I would be perfect for Hope Sandoval… no idea who Polyphonic Spree are other than a band Walky keeps yammering about…

I saw Chris Cornell there doing a solo acoustic show and for that it was great..

I just think Primal Scream is a rocking out band….they should have been booked for U Street Hall…

my only real complaint is always the same: I don't like seeing rock bands in places not created for rock shows….DAR is the same….my friend was talking to the roadies after Fogerty in Baltimore and they were laughing about how shitty DAR was and that they would only deploy 6 out of 30 or some such lights/stage props/not sure what.. in other words DAR was going to get a limited presentation of Fogerty's show on this tour….

and maybe I'm wrong about Primal Scream playing 6th and I…maybe it will be great..who the fuck knows..until the show.

And the 930 club is made for rock shows?    Sixth & I blows the 930 club away.    I can't imagine anyone prefering 930 for any show over Sixth & I. 

Hey anus front, two things…

http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=19630.msg372765#msg372765


anusfront:

worst taste in beer: ✓
worst taste in comedians: ✓
worst taste in music: ✓
worst taste in movies: ✓
mullet: ✓
not really atomicfront (Julian): ✓
not really atomicfront (walky): ✓
douches up every single thread on the board: ✓
likes any band that dresses up in an old timey theme: ✓
doesn't know shit about DC venues: ✓