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Swans fucking slayed last night. They played an exhausting, yet simultaneously uplifting 2 hour set. The show was sold out, and the crowd was definitely into it.
Jesus, was this show loud. I wore my earplugs, I can't even begin to imagine the ringing in people's ears this morning that didn't. I'd take my earplugs out every now and then listen, couldn't do it for more then a minute at a time. It was almost like you could feel the guitar feedback punch you in the head. I've had that experience with bass before, but never something so high in frequency. There was definitely some permanent hearing damage done to some last night!
At one point, a few people tried starting a mosh pit. Michael Gira was having none of it. He stepped to the edge of the stage, spit on the offenders to get their attention, then waved his finger and shook his head. It took him a few times to get them to stop. Later on, one dude just started going crazy in the crowd, security quickly grabbed him and threw him out, much to his dismay.
Gira was an animated conductor on stage, guiding the band threw the marathon songs. For the first half of the set, he mainly just spoke in mumbled Elvis like "Thank you's".
By the time the set ended, some had succumbed to the assault and accepted defeat. However, for the everyone that was left, they gave one of the best applause/ovations I've seen for a crowd that size in a while. Gira and the whole band stood on stage and let the waves of love and appreciation wash over them. It was the guitarist, Norman's, birthday, so the crowd sang him happy birthday.
Gira said thank you one last time and said he'd see us at the merch booth. Really surprised to see him so involved with the fans and actually coming out after the set to sign/sell merch.
Amazing show, but infinitely glad I brought my earplugs!
Ok, now I have to go to Nashville on Monday to see them. Even though I really shouldn't.
Go. Go see Swans.
Swans is the entheogen of the psychedelic rock world. They're the reminder that music can quack you up, that it can be a sonic assault on your mind. Gira is the devil we need.
Swans fucking slayed last night. They played an exhausting, yet simultaneously uplifting 2 hour set. The show was sold out, and the crowd was definitely into it.
Jesus, was this show loud. I wore my earplugs, I can't even begin to imagine the ringing in people's ears this morning that didn't. I'd take my earplugs out every now and then listen, couldn't do it for more then a minute at a time. It was almost like you could feel the guitar feedback punch you in the head. I've had that experience with bass before, but never something so high in frequency. There was definitely some permanent hearing damage done to some last night!
At one point, a few people tried starting a mosh pit. Michael Gira was having none of it. He stepped to the edge of the stage, spit on the offenders to get their attention, then waved his finger and shook his head. It took him a few times to get them to stop. Later on, one dude just started going crazy in the crowd, security quickly grabbed him and threw him out, much to his dismay.
Gira was an animated conductor on stage, guiding the band threw the marathon songs. For the first half of the set, he mainly just spoke in mumbled Elvis like "Thank you's".
By the time the set ended, some had succumbed to the assault and accepted defeat. However, for the everyone that was left, they gave one of the best applause/ovations I've seen for a crowd that size in a while. Gira and the whole band stood on stage and let the waves of love and appreciation wash over them. It was the guitarist, Norman's, birthday, so the crowd sang him happy birthday.
Gira said thank you one last time and said he'd see us at the merch booth. Really surprised to see him so involved with the fans and actually coming out after the set to sign/sell merch.
Amazing show, but infinitely glad I brought my earplugs!
Ok, now I have to go to Nashville on Monday to see them. Even though I really shouldn't.
Do it It was such a great show. Just don't forget your earplugs!
took my sister to cleveland last night to see bruno mars as a birthday gift. say what you will, but he KILLED it. my sister's thoughts immediately after the show: "there were no dry eyes or panties in the house."
took my sister to cleveland last night to see bruno mars as a birthday gift. say what you will, but he KILLED it. my sister's thoughts immediately after the show: "there were no dry eyes or panties in the house."
I used to take a harsh stand on Mr. Mars until Flanz made me watch his performance from the Grammys a couple years back. Dude does put on a show.
Post by Dave Maynar on Jun 29, 2014 11:26:52 GMT -5
In other news, I went to Meadow Lark Festival last night. It's a smaller local festival that benefits Ijams Nature Center (which is where my avatar is from) and WDVX (if you like bluegrass/americana/etc and haven't heard of WDVX, you're messing up). St Paul and the Broken Bones headlined with the Black Cadillacs as the pre-headliner. Both of them were pretty fantastic in their own way. I ended up talking to Cruz Contreras from the Black Lillies right before St Paul (his son was playing tag with my younger son). He asked if I had seen them before. I said I had missed them at Roo but had seen a good bit of live videos on youtube. He told me that he didn't think any video had yet really captured the energy they play with live, and he was totally correct. Paul sweated through his suit by about halfway through the performance. They also took time to especially thank Knoxville because it was one of the very first cities that cared about what they were doing with their music. It was also feelsy to see how many Roo shirts there were in the crowd. The downside was that I was ready to drop by the time we got home even though it wasn't even 12 yet.
Yea that Paul guy was alright... Maybe I'll see him again.
Agreed the crowd was TERRIBLE tho... I've never seen so many people sitting during a concert before, let alone for someone of MACCA's caliber. I was actually yelled at to sit down by some dude. To whom I kindly replied, "No! You're watching Paul McCartney! You stand up because I'm not sitting!"
Yea that Paul guy was alright... Maybe I'll see him again.
Agreed the crowd was TERRIBLE tho... I've never seen so many people sitting during a concert before, let alone for someone of MACCA's caliber. I was actually yelled at to sit down by some dude. To whom I kindly replied, "No! You're watching Paul McCartney! You stand up because I'm not sitting!"
Welcome to Pittsburgh...I had someone yell at me at Consol once for standing because she couldn't see. It was the Watch the Throne tour. It caused quite the argument
Yea that Paul guy was alright... Maybe I'll see him again.
Agreed the crowd was TERRIBLE tho... I've never seen so many people sitting during a concert before, let alone for someone of MACCA's caliber. I was actually yelled at to sit down by some dude. To whom I kindly replied, "No! You're watching Paul McCartney! You stand up because I'm not sitting!"
Welcome to Pittsburgh...I had someone yell at me at Consol once for standing because she couldn't see. It was the Watch the Throne tour. It caused quite the argument
Noted. I'll have to think twice about going back then. However, it really didn't hinder my experience too too much. After the little "argument" he kept running his jibs and I turned around and was like, "How about I go get a beer? I'll walk slow. I'll be gone for a few, so enjoy. Because when I get back, I'm dancing my ass off some more." He gave me a dirty look and that was the end of it. Didn't say a word to me the rest of the night.
Saw Phantogram last Tuesday and they were rocking.
So jelly. They're not coming anywhere near me, either on their own or in a festival setting. I was going to go to ACL, but that's officially off the table. It saddens me.
Welcome to Pittsburgh...I had someone yell at me at Consol once for standing because she couldn't see. It was the Watch the Throne tour. It caused quite the argument
i've had issues with this pretty much every time i've ever been to a show at consol. i'm not going to sit down and watch gaga.
Welcome to Pittsburgh...I had someone yell at me at Consol once for standing because she couldn't see. It was the Watch the Throne tour. It caused quite the argument
Noted. I'll have to think twice about going back then. However, it really didn't hinder my experience too too much. After the little "argument" he kept running his jibs and I turned around and was like, "How about I go get a beer? I'll walk slow. I'll be gone for a few, so enjoy. Because when I get back, I'm dancing my ass off some more." He gave me a dirty look and that was the end of it. Didn't say a word to me the rest of the night.
Did you have staff members on your side making people sit? Where I was, any time someone would actually start enjoying themselves someone with an ear-piece would run out of nowhere and shoo them back into their seats.
Noted. I'll have to think twice about going back then. However, it really didn't hinder my experience too too much. After the little "argument" he kept running his jibs and I turned around and was like, "How about I go get a beer? I'll walk slow. I'll be gone for a few, so enjoy. Because when I get back, I'm dancing my ass off some more." He gave me a dirty look and that was the end of it. Didn't say a word to me the rest of the night.
Did you have staff members on your side making people sit? Where I was, any time someone would actually start enjoying themselves someone with an ear-piece would run out of nowhere and shoo them back into their seats.
No. People were just sitting in their own. That's so bizarre tho... I've never heard of that. Wonder why.
Did you have staff members on your side making people sit? Where I was, any time someone would actually start enjoying themselves someone with an ear-piece would run out of nowhere and shoo them back into their seats.
No. People were just sitting in their own. That's so bizarre tho... I've never heard of that. Wonder why.
One of my co-workers works security for a local venue in the evenings for a second job. He has told me about the balancing act that he has to go through at times with some shows with the sitters vs. the standers. Apparently, bluegrass shows are the worst for it around here because the audience is split between younger people who want to dance and senior citizens that want to sit the entire time. He has asked people to sit before just to avoid some 70 year old bitching at him all night. I guess the 70 year olds complaining are worse than the 20 year olds complaining.
At f'n PRINCE in the sold out Superdome Essence Fest only like 0.01 of people were dancing in the nosebleeds. It sucked. I can't afford $2000 for my white ass to be on the floor so I can 'rage' with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Tyler Perry. AH.
I sat during Janelle Monae, and was uncontrollably shaking I wanted to dance so bad. Nile Rodgers set literally blew my mind and I couldn't dance. It sucked!! Midway through I started dancing and never sat down except for a couple of slow Prince songs.
Everyone was out of their seats going crazy for Doug E. Fresh doing some lameass DJ crap in between sets, playing 30 second bites of popular 80's songs while mumbling over it. Then the next band would come on and everyone sat back down. Shiz drove me insane.
I regret just not dancing the entire time. Being told to sit down is the most buzzkillington thing that can happen at a show, besides the obvious number 1 of LEO issues.
At f'n PRINCE in the sold out Superdome Essence Fest only like 0.01 of people were dancing in the nosebleeds. It sucked. I can't afford $2000 for my white ass to be on the floor so I can 'rage' with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Tyler Perry. AH.
I sat during Janelle Monae, and was uncontrollably shaking I wanted to dance so bad. Nile Rodgers set literally blew my mind and I couldn't dance. It sucked!! Midway through I started dancing and never sat down except for a couple of slow Prince songs.
Everyone was out of their seats going crazy for Doug E. Fresh doing some lameass DJ crap in between sets, playing 30 second bites of popular 80's songs while mumbling over it. Then the next band would come on and everyone sat back down. Shiz drove me insane.
I regret just not dancing the entire time. Being told to sit down is the most buzzkillington thing that can happen at a show, besides the obvious number 1 of LEO issues.
That's pretty cool that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were in attendance.
Hahaha yea, those guys are guaranteed to be pandering at any event like that. Once they showed Al Sharpton on the big screen right up front I was thinking how funny it would be to be next to him up front at an epic Prince show. Prince's band was like 15+ people, it was unreal.
No. People were just sitting in their own. That's so bizarre tho... I've never heard of that. Wonder why.
One of my co-workers works security for a local venue in the evenings for a second job. He has told me about the balancing act that he has to go through at times with some shows with the sitters vs. the standers. Apparently, bluegrass shows are the worst for it around here because the audience is split between younger people who want to dance and senior citizens that want to sit the entire time. He has asked people to sit before just to avoid some 70 year old bitching at him all night. I guess the 70 year olds complaining are worse than the 20 year olds complaining.
This makes total sense and is the exact problem I think I was having. Everyone around me were like real "adults," as opposed to me who is a pretend adult. Though guy who yelled at me couldn't have been more than 45 tops.
No. People were just sitting in their own. That's so bizarre tho... I've never heard of that. Wonder why.
One of my co-workers works security for a local venue in the evenings for a second job. He has told me about the balancing act that he has to go through at times with some shows with the sitters vs. the standers. Apparently, bluegrass shows are the worst for it around here because the audience is split between younger people who want to dance and senior citizens that want to sit the entire time. He has asked people to sit before just to avoid some 70 year old bitching at him all night. I guess the 70 year olds complaining are worse than the 20 year olds complaining.
so...its a lot like games at Neyland when you aren't in the student section?
One of my co-workers works security for a local venue in the evenings for a second job. He has told me about the balancing act that he has to go through at times with some shows with the sitters vs. the standers. Apparently, bluegrass shows are the worst for it around here because the audience is split between younger people who want to dance and senior citizens that want to sit the entire time. He has asked people to sit before just to avoid some 70 year old bitching at him all night. I guess the 70 year olds complaining are worse than the 20 year olds complaining.
so...its a lot like games at Neyland when you aren't in the student section?
Welcome to Pittsburgh...I had someone yell at me at Consol once for standing because she couldn't see. It was the Watch the Throne tour. It caused quite the argument
Noted. I'll have to think twice about going back then. However, it really didn't hinder my experience too too much. After the little "argument" he kept running his jibs and I turned around and was like, "How about I go get a beer? I'll walk slow. I'll be gone for a few, so enjoy. Because when I get back, I'm dancing my ass off some more." He gave me a dirty look and that was the end of it. Didn't say a word to me the rest of the night.
Its just Consol don't judge the whole city on it. Not all the crowds are like that
Really? I am assuming you used a pleasant tone of voice and manners for your response. What was her problem?
I tried to be as nice as possible. contrary to popular belief I do try to avoid conflict as much as possible. They were older than me and enough older than me that I should "respect my elders"
long story short the argument went something like:
Her "I paid $60 for my ticket, Id like to be able to see the show" Me "I paid $60 for my ticket, and Id like to enjoy the show the way I want to enjoy the show, by standing"
Back and forth for probably half the show. Then the overly drunk girl next to us got thrown out so I slid down but my luck would've been to be in front of the only 2 people sitting in the entire building