hutch wrote:The Portlandia effect.
Carrie is a star for sure….every time she sang it seemed like the excitement level in the crowd went up… she had way too much makeup on though!
Post Show Banter >>>>
Is no one else concerned that seeing Sleater-Kinney is a really supporting something socioeconomically odious in this day and age? The lack of gender or racial diversity in the band is totally retrogressive. I'm surprised any of you can hear their music playing from all the way back there in the 1950s.
Sleater Kinney's show last night didn't have any nostalgia to it.. it wasn't your typical reunion… they just picked up where they left off and kept going….
hutch wrote:Yeah, and the benefit of time passing IN NO WAY affected their utter lack of ethno-gender diversity. A black man can be President of the United States of America but he can't be in Sleater-Kinney. In 2015. In America.
they just picked up where they left off and kept going….
Good luck selling all that to the youth of today.
Julian, wrote:hutch wrote:Yeah, and the benefit of time passing IN NO WAY affected their utter lack of ethno-gender diversity. A black man can be President of the United States of America but he can't be in Sleater-Kinney. In 2015. In America.
they just picked up where they left off and kept going….
Good luck selling all that to the youth of today.
sorry to report they doubled down; they have a "fourth person" helping out on a few songs on percussion, guitar etc.. and…you guessed it: a white female..
for the record this was the opening act.. multi gender, multi race
Bags wrote:
Now, the crowd was surprisingly sedate, lackluster even.
I'm not really sure about that. People were screaming a lot in my area, and also singing out of tune, which was kind of annoying. Now I've seen crowds that where more enthusiast and danced much more, but that doesn't seem to be the trend on the East Coast of US… I've rarely heard people screaming for 2nd encores or things like that like it is often the case in other areas.
If you ask me, from the 20 shows I've seen in Philly, crowds were on average even more sedate, but I'm not really complaining, except when people do not even bother to ask for encores.
Sidehatch wrote:"Opening act"? You mean "token".
for the record this was the opening act.. multi gender, multi race
hutch wrote:Wow, that's crazy. This caucasian, cisgender-female oppression is TRIGGERING me.
sorry to report they doubled down; they have a "fourth person" helping out on a few songs on percussion, guitar etc.. and…you guessed it: a white female..
hutch wrote:
yeah..DC crowds….
watchagonnado…watchagonnado? they're pretty hopeless..definitely noticed at the end how too many people took the first chance to leave instead of asking for another song…
Ok I'm going to have to disagree with the crowd, half the audience was singing along word for word on a lot of the songs. I think they were really into it and rocking it for most of the show
But I was a little disappointed when they played their last song and the crowd didn't even try for an encore.
They did put on the house music immediately…so that may have discouraged them
Ian M was a dead fish, didn't bob his head once and left halfway through
Julian, wrote:hutch wrote:Wow, that's crazy. This caucasian, cisgender-female oppression is TRIGGERING me.
sorry to report they doubled down; they have a "fourth person" helping out on a few songs on percussion, guitar etc.. and…you guessed it: a white female..
Their guitar tech was a dude…so there is that
and he was on stage about 20 times as Carrie changed guitars every song
Sidehatch wrote:Are you trying to equate being a guitar tech to a slave being forced to pick cotton on a plantation? Bold assertion.
Their guitar tech was a dude…so there is that
and he was on stage about 20 times as Carrie changed guitars every song
thing about philly is you have to go to philly and be in philly with people from philly….
Sidehatch wrote:hutch wrote:
yeah..DC crowds….
watchagonnado…watchagonnado? they're pretty hopeless..definitely noticed at the end how too many people took the first chance to leave instead of asking for another song…
Ok I'm going to have to disagree with the crowd, half the audience was singing along word for word on a lot of the songs. I think they were really into it and rocking it for most of the show
Interesting. We were about a third of the way back on the Food Food side. Not that it ruined the show for me, I danced and jumped and waved my hands around (as GGW once pointed out years ago, you can tell I know the song when my arm goes up…I hadn't noticed but he was dead on).
We will be with people from Philly, so we've got that going for us.
hutch wrote:
thing about philly is you have to go to philly and be in philly with people from philly….
LOL…I love Philly. It's got personality. Great food, it's much cheaper than DC, it's got the Barnes Foundation, fantastic music venues (TLA, World Cafe Live, the Troc, Boot & Saddle, Union Transfer, the Skyline stage at Mann Center), Rittenhouse, cool record stores like Long in the Tooth, neighborhoods like Little Italy, Northern Liberties and Fishtown…I always have a great time and have lots of friends there. The only venue I'm not a fan of is the Electric Factory. Reminds me too much of Nation/Capitol Ballroom, which I hated.
Bearman, I'm doing a full collection tour of the Barnes Foundation Saturday afternoon. And dinner at Amada. A great Philly day!
Bags wrote:
Bearman, I'm doing a full collection tour of the Barnes Foundation Saturday afternoon. And dinner at Amada. A great Philly day!
ok Barnes is rad… did they move it yet?
I went a few years ago..simply amazing…
hutch wrote:Bags wrote:
Bearman, I'm doing a full collection tour of the Barnes Foundation Saturday afternoon. And dinner at Amada. A great Philly day!
ok Barnes is rad… did they move it yet?
I went a few years ago..simply amazing…
It's moved. The work in that exhibit is some of my favorite art. And I grew up going to the Art Institute in Chicago…I really mean it has a high compliment. Never been to Amada. I typically eat on the cheap in Philly with occasional splurges. Zahav is outstanding.
Bags wrote:Sidehatch wrote:hutch wrote:
yeah..DC crowds….
watchagonnado…watchagonnado? they're pretty hopeless..definitely noticed at the end how too many people took the first chance to leave instead of asking for another song…
Ok I'm going to have to disagree with the crowd, half the audience was singing along word for word on a lot of the songs. I think they were really into it and rocking it for most of the show
Interesting. We were about a third of the way back on the Food Food side. Not that it ruined the show for me, I danced and jumped and waved my hands around (as GGW once pointed out years ago, you can tell I know the song when my arm goes up…I hadn't noticed but he was dead on).
so you dancing like this
