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Hatchamaticıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl wrote:
Did you get the Scandal cover? (the warrior)

Yep.  Plus, their cover of Angst in my Pants.

Hatchamaticıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl wrote:
was sabrinia wearing a shirt when she sold you a shirt ;)

Somehow they had less on when running the merch booth than during the set

Beck with NSO @ Wolf Trap

Absolute A+ show… great to hear some deep Sea Change/Morning Phase tunes as well as many other lesser played tunes.

Would see again.

hutch wrote:
Justice blew the roof off the Anthem tonight.

So so good

Tickets were going for $15-20 a few hours before showtime. Momentarily considered it. Sounds like I missed out.

Got a free ticket to Green Day/Pumpkins. Got to see Rancid play 2 songs. Pumpkins were just fine. But I thought Green Day was extremely tight, sounded great, and had tremendous energy. That was by far my favorite show of theirs, even though it was in the biggest venue. Great evening.

bearman🐻 wrote:
Got a free ticket to Green Day/Pumpkins. Got to see Rancid play 2 songs. Pumpkins were just fine. But I thought Green Day was extremely tight, sounded great, and had tremendous energy. That was by far my favorite show of theirs, even though it was in the biggest venue. Great evening.

alas I bailed, how was the downpour? or did that start before the bands?

Jumped on tickets at the last minute for Green Day and fully agree, they sounded incredible live and had nonstop energy for 2.5 hours. I could feel the upper deck move during certain songs - they had the crowd in the palm of their hand.

Rancid only got 2 songs in before they were cut. Pumpkins had to cut 3 songs (not sorry). Green Day played a very full, very rocket-fueled set. It was awesome.

Going to given the Big Star Quintet show a solid B.  Two sets with the first primary being Radio City of course. Second set more of #1 and a few from Third/Sister Lover.

Musically the band was in top notch form and clearly enjoying playing those great tunes.  Although, they did meander a bit with some of Third songs they have recently added to the set.

Vocally Jon Auer and Pat Sansone were spot on and the harmonies always worked. Jody Stephens is an ok singer, Mike Mills is sounding a bit gravely these days and some of the songs he sang lead on were better than others.  Chris Stamey’s voice is also sounding a bit rough these days.

Radio City is a great album, but it does trail off towards the end and I never really got into what was supposed to be the third album.

Show ended with Pat doing a great take on Chris Bell’s “You And Your Sister” followed by  “Thank You Friends”

I was expecting to see you at Koe Wetzel!

Bruce in the USA, Arrowbrook Park, Herndon VA, 8/24/24, free show

So we pregamed at Juicy Brewing, nearby. First brewery outing for our very friendly and curious puppy. Excellent pastry sours.

Then we headed to the show, scheduled for 90 minutes. The band was introduced by the town supervisor, and took the stage at 7:30. From far away, the clad all in black singer passed for Bruce, at least more than any of the other band members. At times he sounded a bit like Bruce on a very band singing night, at times he sounded nothing like Bruce at all. The fat, old black sax player passed for end of his days Clarence, much more than for modern day Jake. He also announced that he's from Herndon, as did Bruce a few songs later. The short, pudgy (and talented, at least in my non-musician estimation) guitarist with the doo rag was obviously supposed to be Little Steven. The also had an organist, a keys player, a bassist, and a drummer. No money for a Nils Lofgren guy, or the 18 other people in the E Street Band.

Most notably, they played Born in the USA and Jungleland, which don't seem to get played at Bruce shows themselves.

Overall, it was passably entertaining. It didn't move me to goosebumps and tears like the real Bruce show did, but hey, those are some damn great songs and the band was tight-ish. Would I go again for free? Maybe? If I hadn't gone to this, I would have probably just watched the boob tube or gone to the Big Star shpw. Am I ok that I passed over the Big Star tribute show for this one? Well, I don't really know any Big Star songs and haven't listened to them in 20 years. And I knew pretty much all of the Bruce songs.

My daughter said it was "terrible" and my wife said it was "a waste of her time," and announced she was "ready to go, anytime" two-thirds of the way through the show. But they say that about any acitivity that I choose. So, grain of salt.

I'm not even sure puppy was offically allowed on the astroturf, but he attended anyway and did ok. Probably would have done better at a quiet Kenny G show. Or a hobo rock show with six solo dispersed masked people in a basement, at least one of whom wouldn't be able to see him. Like my daughter, he probably won't remember the first rock show he attended, so I'll always tell him it was the real Bruce Springsteen.

Unfortunately, no 9:30 boardie spottings.

I hate tribute bands.  I randomly saw a "good" tribute band Brit Floyd (or whatever they are called now) at Red Rocks, and the whole time everything was just off and I couldn't look past that.

Depends on the band and context…then again only tribute band I recall paying for was in 2000s when I was insanely into AC/DC and they weren’t touring..so I paid to see Live Wire at State Theatre. They were good…

Am interested in seeing Caligula Blushed but never have.

The only two tribute acts I've seen were Almost Queen (A-) and Bruce in the USA (B or B-) Both were free and both were acts that I really like (and in the case of Freddie, never got to see.)

Looks like Caligula Blushed might be fun because their setlist is much better than Morrissey's current setlist, and they're more likely to show up.

I saw Caligula Blushed once at Ottobar. They weren't bad although I don't think they had their regular guitarist. I've seen terrible Talking Heads and Beatles tribute bands.  I think I wouldn't mind seeing The Fab Faux.

hutch wrote:
Depends on the band and context…then again only tribute band I recall paying for was in 2000s when I was insanely into AC/DC and they weren’t touring..so I paid to see Live Wire at State Theatre. They were good…

Am interested in seeing Caligula Blushed but never have.

i saw an excellent Pink Floyd tribute band in 1994, they were doing something called The Division Bell tour…

Haha.  I saw that one too.

sweetcell wrote:
i saw an excellent Pink Floyd tribute band in 1994, they were doing something called The Division Bell tour…

So any banter from Jack White night one?

kosmo wrote:
So any banter from Jack White night one?

It was a good night.  We arrived around 6 and line was around the block.  Doors opened on time at 6:30 and they moved pretty quick checking people in and getting the crowd inside.  The opener (Evil Twin) took the stage at 8, they were lackluster.  Jack and band took the stage at 9 sharp, played 12 is songs plus a 3 song encore an were completely done by 10:20 or so.  The set was pretty awesome, very heavy and high energy song choices.  The set felt a bit short overall but time wise it seems consistent (but lower end of the scale) with other shows.  Only true gripe, the AC either broke or was shut off just before the show started, you could feel cool air blowing BEFORE the show then nothing - it got HOT!

Looking forward to night 2 tonight.  Allegedly there may be a secret night 3 somewhere too………

A few things to get out of the way first:

1. Meg White is one of the greatest drummers of all time.

2. The White Stripes were cool as hell.

3. I've never listened to a full solo album except the new album (which does rock)

4. I've never paid to see him solo before and probably wouldn't again.

That said, the show was a blast.  His new album really is a return to form, it seems, and he was really into it.  Played about 5 or 6 Stripes songs and not the usual hits: Cannon, Little Bird, Hotel Yorba, Dead Leaves, Black Math and something else I think I'm forgetting.  Fun time, but I don't think i would've had as much fun in a larger space.

Show was packed, but it wasn't too bad to get a decent spot.  Showed up around 8:20 or so to find plenty of street parking close, no line at the door, but a WALL of folks at the top of the steps.

Wish Des Demonas had opened this one.  Evil Twin was one of the dullest bands I think I've ever seen. 

Also, Pissed Jeans ruled as always.  Had a good year of bands not playing encores…we need more of that.

edhochuli was pretty good, but not something I'd listen to much I don't think.  Kind of prog / punk metal…the band looked like they were having the time of their lives.

Opener was a band from Baltimore called Muscle…they ripped.  Bass / drum / vocalist…just punk shredder after punk shredder.  I'd love to catch them again, but I have a feeling they wouldn't play DC anytime soon.