Post Show Banter >>>>

challenged wrote:

bearman wrote:
Really great Bob Mould show last night. :)

Such a great show; and Bob's energy is truly inspiring for us older gents.
Here is the Ramones cover they did, Wurster on Vocals, Ted Leo on Drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPS8F1Cv2U

I'm not sure what my problem is and I keep missing his shows
tons of sugar and Du

SideBurnedOut wrote:

challenged wrote:

bearman wrote:
Really great Bob Mould show last night. :)

Such a great show; and Bob's energy is truly inspiring for us older gents.
Here is the Ramones cover they did, Wurster on Vocals, Ted Leo on Drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPS8F1Cv2U

I'm not sure what my problem is and I keep missing his shows
tons of sugar and Du

Loved the new LP material. I think it fits seamlessly with the other songs. Jon Wurster can bash the hell out of a Husker Du tune. I'm amazed at his versatility. One night he finished a Mountain Goats show, the next night he started the Bob Mould tour. They don't really rehearse as a band. What you see on stage is natural chemistry, and that's incredible to me. "In a Free Land" in particular was wonderful to hear. Super fun to talk to folks after the show…nice to see Brendan Canty and Laura & Betsy from Ex Hex too. When you talk to those gals, you realize how truly rock'n'roll they are. Everyone was in such a good mood. I think that because the band were in Minneapolis the day Prince died, it sort of set a tone for these shows and the band seemed incredibly grateful and humbled.

saw Bunny Wailer last night…I think but am not sure the last time he was in the area was 2006 at Wolftrap and I always kicked myself for missing that…

anyways he played the Howard and i got a ticket on goldstar for about $9 all in…

he played a very similar set list to this 2014 show

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bunny-wailer/2014/paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands-3bceb888.html

the early songs from blackheart man were played as part of a medley which was a bummer for me as i love those songs and wanted to hear them fully fleshed out…. meanwhile a bunch of bob marley and tosh covers were played in full….

i really appreciated the 930 listing set times on day of show when the howard said doors 7 show 8.. i got there 820.. an "opening band" was finishing up (opener had not been mentioned anywhere..)..they must have finished about 845 or so and then the long unbearable wait until about 1030… not a good night not to be drinking.maybe they wanted to push drinks given attendance was not all that (they closed the upstairs off- it did end up filling up pretty good in the stage level)… anyways band comes on..full band! three horns, two keyboards, drummer, guitar, bassist and 2 backing vocalists.. then bunny comes on… not much left of his curt mayfield-ish falsettoish croon ..  wailer came out in full regalia.. apparently he is known as "the emperor" and he looked the part… i thought he did a great job with the limited pipes he has left… all the usual reggae show annoyances were there: the "are you allright out there?" permanent shout-outs.. the overbearing synthesized keyboards… but in spite of it all i enjoyed myself… the crowd was really into it.. lots of people from the caribbean or whatever.. a ton of men and women really dressed up nice… a lot of rastas….i did not see ian mackaye or HR……..

he played about 90 mimutes.. afterwards i learned that the guitar player used to be in roots radics and is some sort of "legend"..

stood outside his tour bus and got to go in and talk to him briefly and get my 2 records signed..some loser before me had bunny sign about 50 records and bunny obliged… i could not believe it.. i wanted to throttle him hard… he was a serious autograph hound.. the kind that gives people like me a bad name…. no doubt he'll sell this stuff on ebay or to collectors.. his records already had a ton of autographs including lee perry on them…….

bunny is pretty spry for near 70..still some good dance moves

for those that don't know and it seems like many don't bunny wailer was one of the original wailers when they were an impressions-like 3 piece with marley, tosh and bunny…. bunny and bob were early childhood friends in the early 60s.. in fact his dad and bob's mom got married.. pretty close… bunny left the wailers in 73 when chris blackwell focused on bob marley…

Thurston wrote:the overbearing synthesized keyboards

good review…but this for me is when Reggae jumped the shark and I could no longer find it enjoyable
I don't know the exact year, but by 1980 possibly earlier, there is almost zero Jamaican music I like

SideBurnedOut wrote:

Thurston wrote:the overbearing synthesized keyboards

good review…but this for me is when Reggae jumped the shark and I could no longer find it enjoyable
I don't know the exact year, but by 1980 possibly earlier, there is almost zero Jamaican music I like

totally agree although I do like Black Uhuru.. that is the end of the line for me…


maybe the keyboards last night weren't that bad…I don't know.. will have to check my recording some day

I have just become really really paranoid of overbearing keyboards in reggae.. and why do they need two keyboardists always? its not like the stuff is so complex?

the drums were not synthesized..

I'm glad I went but the two hour wait (my fault maybe for not calling the venue) was excrutiating for me…. the highlight for me was the stuff from Blackheart Man which is a roots classic… but I didn't need to hear him sing No woman no cry or Legalize it.. just me… the crowd seemed to love it..

and I can't recall ever being on a tour bus.. he had a real nice room in the back with a full bed.. I think his wife, "The Empress" was the woman sitting with him…

i guess i would still say toots slays any other golden era reggae performer by a country mile.. at least as of the last time i saw him (pre-richmond throwing vodka bottle and hitting him on head) a few years ago..toots is really amazing.

bunny's live act is better than ziggy marley or lee perry for me..

i'm sure i'm forgetting some reggae acts i've seen . of course bunny's like 11 years younger than lee perry…. its amazing to think bunny is only 69.. its amazing to think bob marley were he alive would be only 71!  i wonder if he would be met largely by indifference and be forced to play his "hits" from legend…

i do enjoy hearing/seeing aston familyman barrett playing the bass… he's still worth seeing if you ever see that "the wailers" are coming ….

anyways i was excited to see bunny last night and am glad i went

saw Youth Code last night and as predicted, Orpheus was the shittiest venue ever to see bands.  For anyone that has been there before, the "stage" was the slightly (1/4"?) raised wooden dancefloor.  The bands had more space than the people at the show…there was maybe 5 or 6 feet between the "stage" and the bar.

and to top it off, the sound was complete crap.  I could barely hear the vocals of the first two bands.  Youth Code were better, but at the same time, I could hear Sara screaming over the speakers….like her voice was louder than the speaker output!!  Despite the completely shitty sound, Youth Code still managed to KILL IT.

and they promised to come back and do a proper baltimore/DC show (sara kept apologizing over and over for the shitty sound and venue, heh)

anyone able to compare the 930 Club vs Howard soundsystem?

I noticed the Howard was pretty darn impressive….

Thurston wrote:
anyone able to compare the 930 Club vs Howard soundsystem?

I noticed the Howard was pretty darn impressive….

I'm no audiophile, but I saw Living Colour at Howard last month and I have no complaints about the system. Loudness was perfect and clear, and considering how much of a shredder Vernon Reid can be, I could hear every note he picked.

Got wrote:
and they promised to come back and do a proper baltimore/DC show (sara kept apologizing over and over for the shitty sound and venue, heh)

Aw man…. Good thing I was not feeling great and decided to bail on it.  I saw people in the event page worried about the sound system, sucks to hear they did not do shit about it…

I hope the next Youth Code show is sooner than later.  U St, Metro Gallery Ottobar, SoundStage, etc… Any of those venues would sound good with their musical style.

Local H played with original drummer Joe Daniels at RNR last night. It was really great for longtime fans like myself who missed out on seeing him on his first go around (he left in 2000 I think). They played a set of current tunes with the normal drummer Ryan and then did the entire "As Good As Dead" record with Joe. Followed by an encore with both drummers pounding it out Melvins style to tracks from "Pack Up The Cats". almost 2.5 hours of music. Local H are truly underrated.

so I heard rollins showed up at the party last night at the Lincoln

SideBurnedOut wrote:
so I heard rollins showed up at the party last night at the Lincoln

which party was this?

yes indeed Rollins was on hand last night… He's one the hosts that does segments during the episodes. 

I'm excited about this series, the first episode is really well done.  It's really focused on the bands and their performances, with short interludes with comedians and Seth telling stories he shouldn't tell.  Other then the use of arty angles for the interviews, it didn't feel hyper edited like a lot of this sort of things..

sweetcell wrote:

SideBurnedOut wrote:
so I heard rollins showed up at the party last night at the Lincoln

which party was this?

The one celebrating Kate and Justin's engagement. Who knew Rollins ran with that crowd?

It was the screening of the first episode of Live at 930 at the Lincoln..

And I forgot to mention the sound mix for the band's were really good…

Do we have a Live at 930 thread yet?  Should be hitting the PBS airwaves soon…

Midway BJM post:
I am taking a break.  They started at nine and the box office told me they are doing three hours.  The band said that they had 40 songs ready and were going to play as many as they can.  I am currently drinking rum in the basement bar, silently judging people and listening to random snippets of inanity.  Five more minutes and then it's time to take this party back upstairs, where most of the people are listening to loud ass psych.

I love, to silently judge people.  Cheers.

There are some smelly folks near the front. I think I need to retreat.  This fucking hippy was just twirling his greasy ass mane right in my face.  Take that shit to Bonnaroo, dude.

Edit, he moved.