Is Justin over 21?

Interesting – though the GWU show may well be Mraz. He had a full crowd at 9:30 for the Liz Phair co-headline show.

Thanks for the info…didn't realize I was *so* far behind on the Guster ball.

Originally posted by SamZeb:

Originally posted by bags:
Is Guster going to sell out?

Yeah most likely. They are playing a show at GWU next week for students only with Jason Mraz and THAT is almost sold out. Last time Guster played 9:30 I believe it sold out shortly into their set? But I may be mistaken…

-z

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Did anyone look at the program they were selling at the Sex Pistols show?

they had a program, how very punk. I didnt see it, how much was it?

Originally posted by bags:
Interesting – though the GWU show may well be Mraz. He had a full crowd at 9:30 for the Liz Phair co-headline show.

Thanks for the info…didn't realize I was *so* far behind on the Guster ball.

Yeah Mraz is good too, but Guster has been selling out shows since Mraz was playing Java Joe's for tiny audiences back in San Diego.

Regardless, two pretty good acts worth checking out at some point…

cheers
-z

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
they had a program, how very punk. I didnt see it, how much was it?

$10.00

Shirts were between $30 and $40.

"and you thought that we were faking that we were all just money making"

I have to say, it was kinda funny seeing Pistols concert goers clutching programs.

Did they have an intermission as well? Plush opera seating? Those funny opera glasses? Do tell.

Actually, it was the grungiest (no pun intended) show I've seen at 9:30 in years. The floor was drenched in beer and sweat – just one song into the set! Almost seemed like a set-up, if you know what I mean.

" ya think it's funny, turning rebellion into money?"

Me and the missus got a T-shirt each. $75.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Did they have an intermission as well?

Yes, but they were all out of strawberries and cream by the time I got to the head of the queue.

Surely, the peasants don't deserve such delights.

As for Lydon, he was his usual impish self, staring psychotically into the audience and occasionally pausing to blow his nose without benefit of a handkerchief. Still, there was something inherently contrived about listening to a 47-year-old lead a crowd that could shell out 50 smackers each to see a rock show in a rousing chorus of "I wanna be an anarchist . . . Destroy!"

Just playing devil's advocate here, but isn't there something inherently contrived about city folk listening to songs about prairies?

not to play devils advocate but isnt all music that we listen to contrived?

con·trived    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kn-trvd)
adj.
Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored: a novel with a contrived ending.
con·trived·ly (-trvd-l, -trvdl) adv.




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con·trive    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kn-trv)
v. con·trived, con·triv·ing, con·trives
v. tr.
To plan with cleverness or ingenuity; devise: contrive ways to amuse the children.


To invent or fabricate, especially by improvisation: contrived a swing from hanging vines.


To plan with evil intent; scheme: contrived a plot to seize power.


To bring about, as by scheming; manage: somehow contrived to get past the guards unnoticed.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Surely, the peasants don't deserve such delights.

True, but it was anarchy I tell you.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
As for Lydon, he was his usual impish self, staring psychotically into the audience and occasionally pausing to blow his nose without benefit of a handkerchief. Still, there was something inherently contrived about listening to a 47-year-old lead a crowd that could shell out 50 smackers each to see a rock show in a rousing chorus of "I wanna be an anarchist . . . Destroy!"

"We're the real deal," boasted singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), and to their credit the Pistols wasted no time in establishing their bona fides, mustering up all the musical filth and fury of yore.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45120-2003Aug25.html

what song about prairies are you referring to? "this land is your land"?

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Just playing devil's advocate here, but isn't there something inherently contrived about city folk listening to songs about prairies?

alright, i'll admit it. "contrived" was my wife's word. the reviewer used "surreal".

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
not to play devils advocate but isnt all music that we listen to contrived?

con·trived    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kn-trvd)
adj.
Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored: a novel with a contrived ending.
con·trived·ly (-trvd-l, -trvdl) adv.




Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
[Buy it]




con·trive    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kn-trv)
v. con·trived, con·triv·ing, con·trives
v. tr.
To plan with cleverness or ingenuity; devise: contrive ways to amuse the children.


To invent or fabricate, especially by improvisation: contrived a swing from hanging vines.


To plan with evil intent; scheme: contrived a plot to seize power.


To bring about, as by scheming; manage: somehow contrived to get past the guards unnoticed.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
alright, i'll admit it. "contrived" was my wife's word. the reviewer used "surreal".

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Wasn't it your wife who was telling me how she liked to use dictionary.com when her colleagues used fancy words in the wrong context….

I think this is exactly the meaning she had in mind…

Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored: a novel with a contrived ending.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I think this is exactly the meaning she had in mind…

Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored: a novel with a contrived ending.

As for Lydon, he was his usual impish self, staring psychotically into the audience and occasionally pausing to blow his nose without benefit of a handkerchief. Still, there was something inherently Obviously planned or calculated about listening to a 47-year-old lead a crowd that could shell out 50 smackers each to see a rock show in a rousing chorus of "I wanna be an anarchist . . . Destroy!"


So does she suspect that John called us all before the show to plan this in advance?