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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Relaxer on July 20, 2006, 07:54:00 am
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Anyone going?
And is this going to be An Evening With The Secret Machines? Not sure how/if a band with two records pulls that off. Could they not come up with an opener? What are the Apes doing tonight? Call up the Rye Coalition and tell them to drive down. Hell, even WSC is better than nothing.
I've liked the Machines' show in the past but I'm wondering if it's enough to see them a third time with no opener. And what time is it going to start?
Or should I just chuck the whole thing and see Konono No. 1 instead?
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Do you mean the SECRET Machines?
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Whoops.
Yes, I meant the Secret Machines.
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I'm in. I was wondering about the opener myself. I worried for a while that this was setting up to be an early show and that it would start at 7:30, but it looks like a normal set. Secret Machines could certainly play for two hours and I would dig it.
I'm sad to miss Konono No. 1 though. I have tickets for that show too but I got them before Secret Machines was announced so they'll need a new home.
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the secret machines can do whatever they want.
I wont be at the show, cause i am seeing Ryan Adams, but i WILL be seeing the Machines at Artscape on saturday....cant wait to hear Lightning Blue Eyes live. :)
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Forgot to mention that I'll be there. Most likely at my usual spot at the upstairs barstools.
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BTW, there is a computer game caleld Simple Machines.
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secret machines are playing a free show in Baltimore @ artscape saturday..i think they go on stage at 6:30. I'll be there (a bit earlier though to catch Lake Trout)
http://www.artscape.org/resources/up165.aspx?ff=4 (http://www.artscape.org/resources/up165.aspx?ff=4)
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
Not sure how/if a band with two records pulls that off.
They also have 2 EPs.
I'll probably go, since I can't make it to Artscape.
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I'm on the fence...just seeing what happens to my schedule Friday. Some of their songs are longgg so I wouldn't worry about filling time..Plus, really - two hours?
Kinda cool to see there are people who like openers.
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No opening act. Secret Machines only.
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Originally posted by Shadrach:
No opening act. Secret Machines only.
Interesting, thanks. Any particular reason why?
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i was going to catch the nats first. Think I'll need to leave early?
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aslkjaspoitasvashgy#)(%@! i already bought tix for the show, but i might have to go to the artscape one too. thanks for that. also, the apes are really good live. have they ever played at 930?
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Originally posted by joeblowjoe:
i was going to catch the nats first. Think I'll need to leave early?
Just as long as you dont wear your baseball cap inside. Am I right hipsters?!
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Originally posted by beedubyah:
Originally posted by joeblowjoe:
i was going to catch the nats first. Think I'll need to leave early?
Just as long as you dont wear your baseball cap inside. Am I right hipsters?! [/b]
only backwards or sideways, right?
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I'll be there, saw them at Lanagerado and it was tight, like their studio stuff as well, definitely think they can play for a while no problem.
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If anyone's on the fence, there's a 20 minute live performance available from Rolling Stone (and Coors -- yuck), check it out here (http://www.rollingstoneextras.com/coors/sm/site.php)
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I'll be there! I'm doing a little cramming right now. I just finished listening to "Now Here Is Nowhere"... Man, that's a good album! Moving on to "Ten Silver Drops"... Anyway, I was surprised to see there's no opening band, but that's fine with me. If anyone wants to meet up (Tom Servo? Bags? anyone?), I'll be in my usual spot near-ish the Food Food window and the bar on that side....
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If I go (it's about an 80% chance), we always head over to the Food Food window general area...
I'd invite you to meet for a drink beforehand, but a friend in a condo nearby is having people over.
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Groovy. I'll keep an eye out for the congregation.
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Originally posted by Bags:
If I go (it's about an 80% chance), we always head over to the Food Food window general area...
"Never tell me the odds!" -- Han Solo
Originally posted by Tom Servo:
Groovy. I'll keep an eye out for the congregation.
Far out, man.
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We wil not be making it to the show tonight after all. Too bad Im sure it is going to be very good. Oh well teo tickets go unused.
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How was the Ryan Adams show? A little warm, eh?
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Konono No. 1 definitely was...the AC was out upstairs.
Originally posted by Baby Gorilla:
How was the Ryan Adams show? A little warm, eh?
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frat boy fest at the 930 last night...good show though
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That was most definitely their best performance of the three I've seen at the 930 club. The energy was amazing...though the talking during North Country and the first half of You Are Chains bugged my friends and me.
Did anyone else notice the doped up guy in the front right who was waving his hand around in the air the entire time?
Again, the energy was incredible, especially at the end of I Hate Pretending and during the entire encore. I'm seeing them at Lollapalooza, but there's no way they're as good during the day. The lights are half the show. A friend told me the lights alone were worth over 500K...he said they were worht 700K...can anyone back that up or refute it?
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The Secret Machines came out and hit the audience with a wall of sound like a ton of bricks. In their atypical stage arrangement, the drummer was at the front of the stage on the left and facing his bandmates stage right. With the very first song, I could feel the bass drum thumping in my chest. It was awesome and the first song right away set the bar for one of the best performances of the year at the club. I loved the Secret Machine's brand of shoegaze-influenced indie rock, and I thought they were noticeably better than when I saw them at the 9:30 Club a year and a half ago. There was one super-slow song in the middle of the set that just seemed interminable, but otherwise every song was just amazing. The sound mix was excellent.
Best light show of the year by far, I'd say, though of course it's not like I attend every show or anything, so I cannot say definitvely, but it was one of the best I've seen at the club. Really I'd have to go back to last year's Billy Corgan show for a better light show, and I reckon that light show is unbeatable.
It was great fun hanging out with Bags and her posse. Tom Servo, I'm sorry we missed you. Hopefully next time....
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I thought that show was great. I've seen them twice before -- both times at the Black Cat I'm pretty sure, and this was by far the S.M. best show (it, in fact, ranks really high for the year overall). It just rocked. And I was surprised, because I tend to get annoyed with the 6, 7, 8 minute drawn out songs (starts to verge on jammy, which I just am viscerally turned off to). Only once I said to a friend that a song could have ended about 2 minutes sooner.
I thought the sound was great, too. As Darth said, it was kind of a wall of sound which washed over and thumped right through you. And the lights were amazing.
I wasn't even sure I'd go -- got there middle of second song. Super glad I got over there.... I even made Darth debrief with us at DC9. Very good summer Friday night.
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anyone have the setlist?
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that was by far the best show ive seen at 930 in a long time. the first half of the set was amazing, especially with the lights, though the light show did die down somewhat nearing the end of their set. as for the slower part around 3/4 of the way through the show, i figure it was so the drummer could have a little breather, cause he had been destroying the drums for about an hour. also, i loved how everyone talked through out the entire show.
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I thought it was great overall. The sound was great, and I liked the long noisy jams. The light show was really good (best I've ever seen was Kasabian opening for the Music -- it was even better than when Kasabian headlined a couple months later). There was a 15-minute stretch that dragged juuust a bit, but they ended strong, and the encore was good too.
There were a couple times when I was distracted by the extent to which they were using background tapes. When the keyboard player (is that Brandon Curtis?) was playing bass, they played like a classic trio, where what you saw was what you heard. But when he was on the keyboard, they had up to 4 or 5 parts coming from tapes. Once or twice, the most interesting guitar parts were not being played onstage, and that can be a little disappointing.
But overall, it was a great time. It sounded good, it looked good, and the show length was just right. Still would've liked an opener though...
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Great show. This was my 4th time to see them and I was beginning to get worried about a letdown from setting the bar too high, but no disappointment here. Darth Ed and Bags, sorry I missed you guys. I was almost at the front and by the time I saw you it was too crowded where I was to move. Next time...
The light show has gotten better each time. They experimented in some of the other shows I've seen with those super bright sodium lights pointed right at the audience, but have thankfully settled on a more subtle scheme. Now they only bring out the blinders for a few moments in the set which works to a much better effect.
I had no problems with the crowd chatter where I was. Probably fewer talkers in general right up front and whatever there was got drowned out by the sound.
I would've liked to hear All At Once off the new album, and I thought the guitar could have been higher in the mix in spots - but no major complaints. A great night. The last 2 minutes of First Wave Intact (last song of the encore) always highlight my year in rock.
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Did the light show overshadowed the mediocreness of the songs from their latest album?
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
The light show was really good (best I've ever seen was Kasabian opening for the Music
do you remember where you were standing for that show? i remember having to shield my eyes for a lot of it, i thought it was a bit excessive ... maybe i was just in a bad spot
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Originally posted by bigyellow100:
also, i loved how everyone talked through out the entire show.
I guess it doesn't piss everyone off.
(It's Monday...maybe my sarcasm detector needs to be re-calibrated)
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it kept raining when they were playing at artscape, so didn't manage to catch much of them...well could listen, but not see. kept running back to the tent by MICA. but i did think they sounded better (and had a bit more energy) than last time I saw them @ rams head live about a year or so ago (strangely, also a free show)
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Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
it kept raining when they were playing at artscape, so didn't manage to catch much of them...well could listen, but not see. kept running back to the tent by MICA. but i did think they sounded better (and had a bit more energy) than last time I saw them @ rams head live about a year or so ago (strangely, also a free show)
I was wondering how that went. Never made it down because I just didn't feel like dealing with all of that sporatic rain and crowds outside. Just wasn't all worth it to me. Also, considering that it was still broad daylight, I figured they'd have to nix the light show...which had nothing to do with why I didn't go. Surprised they didn't take the shows inside considering the rains were a given factor. Maybe they didn't want to pay the rent.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
Originally posted by Relaxer:
The light show was really good (best I've ever seen was Kasabian opening for the Music
do you remember where you were standing for that show? i remember having to shield my eyes for a lot of it, i thought it was a bit excessive ... maybe i was just in a bad spot [/b]
Middle/left side on the balcony. I do remember a couple blinding times, but overall I was impressed and entertained and not annoyed by light-blindness.
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i was at the bottom right of the balcony near the stairs and thought that from that vantage point, the light show was superb, though i could see how it would just be blinding if you were on the floor near the stage. but is it just me or is the sound for the vocals worse upstairs than downstairs?
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
it kept raining when they were playing at artscape, so didn't manage to catch much of them...well could listen, but not see. kept running back to the tent by MICA. but i did think they sounded better (and had a bit more energy) than last time I saw them @ rams head live about a year or so ago (strangely, also a free show)
I was wondering how that went. Never made it down because I just didn't feel like dealing with all of that sporatic rain and crowds outside. Just wasn't all worth it to me. Also, considering that it was still broad daylight, I figured they'd have to nix the light show...which had nothing to do with why I didn't go. Surprised they didn't take the shows inside considering the rains were a given factor. Maybe they didn't want to pay the rent. [/b]
Artscape was absolutely incredible. There being no light show would only have mattered if the giant rainbow hadn't appeared during North Country (what they called the best light show they've ever had). The mix on Saturday was better, not sure which show I enjoyed more, though.
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Originally posted by Joe M.:
Did the light show overshadowed the mediocreness of the songs from their latest album?
Man, lightning blue eyes was fantastic, and I Hate Pretending was one of the most energetic moments of the show (A song they played last year, by the way). The drum solo into chaos at the end, followed by the silence cutoff, is just amazing.
To go with the rainbow in Baltimore, my friend told me that they ended it short with Nowhere Again because of some rumored lightning. But the song has the perfect lyrics for the occasion (rainbow):
"maybe the rain will stop following me, with millions of colors reflected in daylight"