Post Show Banter >>>>

Sooooo in a rather random turn of events, I ended up playing my first gig at The Fillmore. They needed a DJ to open before The Bloody Beetroots. Bob, the producer/lead singer, used to be JUST a producer and DJ but now has transformed what the Beetroots were into this weird heavy metal/electro hyrbid trio. He plays bass/guitar/piano and has another guy on synth and a drummer. It was high energy as hell, but the strobe lights were absolutely killing me. I was sitting on the balcony to the right of the stage and got a major headache.

As for my own personal experience DJing, the bass was INSANE and the staff was BEYOND friendly. I was super surprised but it seemed like just about everyone there was ready to lend a helping hand. As I stood backstage probably 5 or 6 different people walked by asking if I needed anything or if I was doing fine. Then I went on from 830-10 and had a blast. The crowd was fun and it actually became nerve racking with the amount of people showing up and I had this huge stage to myself. It was an awesome experience and even stranger considering it was my 2nd time there. The green rooms are lovely too. Anyway…. It was an odd Saturday.

awesome, to you

Yada wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:

Yada wrote:

cool review… I went to see Ray Lamontange with my wife last night and both him and Jason Isabel were boring as all hell. However!!!! James would be happy to know that due to scalpers being a little too overzealous, I was able to sit dead center, row m, for $20 a ticket.

man, when Jason Isabel played the 930, it was an awesome rocking show.  I can see how a lot of his material would not play well at MPP

You always seem to land crazy good seats at crazy cheap prices…the force is strong in this one…I've a lot to learn

Yada wrote:

does james approve of frank's thriftiness in having a cheap beer or disapprove of his choice in shitty beer?

Tough call on that one…I think he would lecture him on the benefits of attachment parenting

I?ve shared my strategy in the past, but here goes again. This mainly works at large events like the Verizon Center or MPP (this also works at The Fillmore since they?re part of Clear Channel who seems to give 1/3rd of their tickets to scalpers)? I?m sure it would work at Lube Job as well, but I don?t venture out there. Also, this may not work for say Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Justin Bieber? mainly for acts that can play a venue of that size but most likely not sell it out. If the band truly sells out the venue, this won?t work.

Every single large show will have scalpers take X amount of tickets.  The shows coming up like Beck, Willie Nelson, Queens (I fucked up on that one and bought seats early) are all good examples of shows that won?t sell out but scalpers most likely have a good hold on presale tickets, etc. Wait until 24 hours or less from showtime and start working the ticket sites. Every single seat will most likely be cut in half and some up to 80% off.

This got me $15 Kraftwerk Club tickets.

so far no sign of willie tickets coming down.

start working the ticket sites.

Are there any other sites I should be checking apart from Stubhub or Craigs List? And do these two even count?

anyone catch the Jeff Tweedy show at the Meyehoff?

I enjoyed the Tweedy show last night. His "tweedy" band is essentially Wilco-light, but I liked at least 3/4ths of the songs and it's always a treat to hear solo acoustic Tweedy.

I enjoyed it…but it wasn't very satisfying
The new songs really didn't grab me at all….and believe me I wanted them to work

I did like that he played 'please tell my brothers' by Golden Smog and Via Chicago
finishing with an unamplified rendition of 'missunderstood' was pretty sweet too

His son seemed solid as a drummer, but couldn't hold a water faucet to Glenn Kotche



Way back in 99, when I both time and money to burn, I flew to Chicago to see one of his solo acoustic shows he did at the Lounge Ax.
That was really one of the best musical experiences I've ever had in a club

At that time he hadn't even finished recording SummerTeeth. 
But we got treated to about 6+ songs that ended up on ST and all these other UT/GS/Mermaid Ave/Wilco classics.
He even threw in some covers of Big Star (13) and Henry & the H Bombs
as well as old traditionals like 'auld triangle' and 'James alley blues' 

Later that year he did a few more of these and he debuted a bunch that would appear on YFH

at the time I traded tapes (remember those) and those were cherished my collection.  Just came across this JT@LoungeAX
looking forward to listening to that later

Just found a great article about  Jeff and the Ax

To be clear, last night wasn't even close to that experience.

oh…this also made me chuckle

Sidehatch wrote:
I enjoyed it…but it wasn't very satisfying
The new songs really didn't grab me at all….and believe me I wanted them to work

I did like that he played 'please tell my brothers' by Golden Smog and Via Chicago
finishing with an unamplified rendition of 'missunderstood' was pretty sweet too

His son seemed solid as a drummer, but couldn't hold a water faucet to Glenn Kotche



Way back in 99, when I both time and money to burn, I flew to Chicago to see one of his solo acoustic shows he did at the Lounge Ax.
That was really one of the best musical experiences I've ever had in a club

At that time he hadn't even finished recording SummerTeeth. 
But we got treated to about 6+ songs that ended up on ST and all these other UT/GS/Mermaid Ave/Wilco classics.
He even threw in some covers of Big Star (13) and Henry & the H Bombs
as well as old traditionals like 'auld triangle' and 'James alley blues' 

Later that year he did a few more of these and he debuted a bunch that would appear on YFH

at the time I traded tapes (remember those) and those were cherished my collection.  Just came across this JT@LoungeAX
looking forward to listening to that later

Just found a great article about  Jeff and the Ax

To be clear, last night wasn't even close to that experience.

oh…this also made me chuckle

like I said, seemed very Wilco-light… might as well just have a killer band like Wilco backing you vs. a few amateurs that are trying to make noisey guitar licks like Nels. I liked the last half of songs vs. the first four or five.

Some of the tracks reminded me of the early 2000's b-sides like Cars Can't Escape, More Like the Moon, Handshake Drugs (before it was released), etc.

It was enough of a fix to not see Wilco for a few more years.

BTW, no sighting of some skinny white dude with dreads down to his belt buckle

Sidehatch wrote:
BTW, no sighting of some skinny white dude with dreads down to his belt buckle

I had them tucked in my rasta cap last night.

cause it's not him, according to another boardie…

Sidehatch wrote:
BTW, no sighting of some skinny white dude with dreads down to his belt buckle

Vas wrote:
cause it's not him, according to another boardie…

Sidehatch wrote:
BTW, no sighting of some skinny white dude with dreads down to his belt buckle

I wouldn't take az's advice on what other's look like.

Nah, it wasn't him who told me

Vas wrote:
Nah, it wasn't him who told me

I've never met anyone from here… I must have a stalker.

don't invite walkonby to your place.

btw this so out of tune site is incredible

they've got stuff from the Primitives and Coffee Creek and pretty much every tweedy lounge ax show

high percentage are soundboard

99 wilco 930 show

Tweedy has sucked songwriting-wise since he got rid of Jay Bennett(RIP)… is it related to Jay or is it simply that his creative well ran dry? Impossible to say.. most songwriters only have about a 10 year period of peak songwriting..

hutch wrote:
Tweedy has sucked songwriting-wise since he got rid of Jay Bennett(RIP)… is it related to Jay or is it simply that his creative well ran dry? Impossible to say.. most songwriters only have about a 10 year period of peak songwriting..

LOL

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
Tweedy has sucked songwriting-wise since he got rid of Jay Bennett(RIP)… is it related to Jay or is it simply that his creative well ran dry? Impossible to say.. most songwriters only have about a 10 year period of peak songwriting..

LOL

go listen to your hot new Phish… :)