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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Got Haggis? on March 23, 2004, 11:00:00 am
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how likely is that to sell out tonight?
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I dunno, but I am PSYCHED that they go on before STD. I wasn't happy about having to sit there the whole time for that. Should be good, I love those guys...mmmmm...Burtch :)
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Is Saves the Day worth hanging around for? What are they like? I'm just going for Grandaddy...
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Grandaddy barely playing 1 hour... this tour sucks.
For what I have heard on their website, Saves the day seem to be awfully bad.
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I know Barcelona...barely an hour indeed! That ticket price is steep, but hey, maybe the opening bands will be good. Guess I'll have to wait and see.
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i think alot of us who would want to see grandaddy are goin' to decemberists--
remember, many of us missed the decemberists last time around to see the belle & sebastian show.
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I don't know much about STD. I checked out some stuff on their website and it sounded like pretty disposable emo-rock. Like bad Jimmy Eat World.
But the second opener, Fire Theft, is made up of members of Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters...but sound *nothing* like either band. I think they'll appeal to Grandaddy fans. I suggest going early to see Fire Theft and leave during STD.
And....ANY Grandaddy is good Grandaddy. I'll take an hour.
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You obviously haven't slept around much?
When I was like 8 or something, there was a commercial for STD prevention that had a little jingle that went, "It's the Number One fact of life, VD gets around". I would go around singing it cluelessly, and couldn't figure our why my singing it bothered my mom so much.
Originally posted by xcanuck:
I don't know much about STD. I
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Originally posted by xcanuck:
But the second opener, Fire Theft, is made up of members of Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters...but sound *nothing* like either band. I think they'll appeal to Grandaddy fans. I suggest going early to see Fire Theft and leave during STD.
I wish I could make the Fire Theft-- their new album is really different. I know Pitchfork didn't like it, but I don't care. I think it's good.
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well then..if pitchfork didnt like it it cant be good.
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I want to go tonight, but i dont have the funds.
I am going to save my money for Twilight Singers next week
I do hate missing good shows in Baltimore though. :(
whyzit gotta be $25!? weak man, weak.
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i'm doing a little djing tonight at the show tonight...
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i'm doing a little djing tonight at the show tonight...
so how do you get jobs DJing so many shows? I think thats mad cool. My friend had this thing at the 1614 Lounge in Fells Point for a while, where he DJed drum and bass downstairs and i was mixinf the CDs upstairs, I really enjoyed it. finding the obscure stuff and what not. Must be a heap of fun, eh?
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I've heard good things about Dios. They're like a trippy surf band or something. The Fire Theft should be a good show. Grandaddy will rock. And then I'm going home.
No way Saves the Day should be headlining... but then again... I'm glad they are, because I can leave early.
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I read somewhere that Grandaddy and Saves the Day would decide who would headline based on the popularity of both bands in each city. I hope they change their mind for tonight and we have at least 90 minutes of Grandaddy. Ot would be nice if they started with "Levitz" and played "Ok with my decay". And if Kosmo allows them to do so, a little bit of Charles Chaplin between bands would be great; what they did between Super Furry Animals and Grandaddy last time was excellent.
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the current word from the home office is that grandaddy and saves the day are taking care of the music before and between their sets... i'm the "opening act" :cool:
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i'm doing a little djing tonight at the show tonight...
so how do you get jobs DJing so many shows? I think thats mad cool. My friend had this thing at the 1614 Lounge in Fells Point for a while, where he DJed drum and bass downstairs and i was mixinf the CDs upstairs, I really enjoyed it. finding the obscure stuff and what not. Must be a heap of fun, eh? [/b]
clean living and the willingness to fill in at the last minute... setlist on its way. and yes heaps of fun especially when you can spin the record of someone you know and support with all your heart :D
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Saves The Day, Grandaddy, The Fire Theft & DIOS
9:30 Club
Washington, DC
3/23/04
The Shins - "Young Pilgrim"
The Decemberists - "I Dreamt I Was an Architect"
e.joseph - "Antenna"
Sloan - "Junior Panthers"
The Bigger Lovers - "You (You You)"
De Novo Dahl - "Waiting For My Friends"
Death Cab for Cutie - "I Was a Kaleidoscope"
Oranger - "Springtime"
Soft Boys - "Underwater Moonlight"
13 Engines - "Beneath My Hand"
The Frauds - "Amy"
Sunday's Best - "The Hardest Part"
Franz Fernidand - "Take Me Out"
The Numbers - "Justice"
Romantics- "61/49"
The Von Bondies - "The Fever"
Idlewild - "Annihilate Now!"
The Coral - "Don't Think Your the First"
DIOS Set
Matthew Sweet - "Beware My Lover"
Grant Lee Phillips - "Spring Released"
Super Furry Animals - "She's Got Spies"
The Capitol Years - "Japanese Stone"
Ben Kweller - "Commerce, TX"
The Fire Threat, Grandaddy, and Saves the Day Sets
A few links to shake a stick at (http://www.hi-fipop.com/930032304.html)
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Good show last night...I was impressed with Dios (great cover of "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies, I thought the Fire Theft were OK. Turns out I have hung out with one of the guitarists on a few occasions, did get a chance to say hello to him. Grandaddy were a lot of fun, though, just too bad their set was only 55 minutes. I have the setlist at home, have to say I was surprised with the songs they picked to play. It was great to hear "Velouria", another Pixies cover! They're a bit tighter than the last time I saw them...Grandaddy are a fantastic opening band, I wish they'd be playing at Coachella because they'd be great there. Anyone else go? Thoughts?
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Good show last night...I was impressed with Dios (great cover of "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies
Dios is some good shit. I have been digging thier album. As soon as i get off my lazy ass, you can find a review for it on bigyawn.net. :)
Dios is also playing at Coachella, you know.
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Excellent! One more reason to get there early. They were very good...I've got to say Coachella is looking better and better to me.
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
I've got to say Coachella is looking better and better to me.
certainly, the more i listen to the bands, the more of them i am trying to catch.
the latest ones i am into are
Dios
Atmosphere
Cooper Temple Clause
The Sounds (yes, i really kinda like them!)
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Kosmo -- what an excellent set list. Now I'd like a CD of that set!!
Sonick, I love The Sounds. I think it's time for my Sounds story from the show at Nation with the Strokes. There is no more early-80s loving band than these Swedes. They had this huge banner of them all tough looking in black and white standing on a yellow and black checkered floor -- it was so Cars or Kim Wilde, I could barely stand it.
The too-blonde lead singer loves smacking her ass with the microphone, which is pretty funny as she does it a lot, like she's a horse and a jockey both, whipping herself for more speed. The other guys look like tame versions of Depeche Mode, tight (but somehow tasteful] wife-beater tees on their skinny-ass bodies and all.
So it's the last song, the band members leave the stage one by one, leaving the two wife-beater tee'd guys mid-stage, each holding drumsticks, and standing in front of a double electronic drum set -- just two hexagon-shaped snares on a high stand, like a flower stalk with two blossoms, one on each side. The two guys do this tribal duo-drum thing with big strokes, raising the sticks high in the air alternately and beating that electronic surface. It was such a trip; I was transported to my teen years and my first Thompson Twins show. It was hysterical, cool, silly and fun all at once.
See The Sounds at Coachella; it'll be a trip. ;)
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Originally posted by Bags:
Kosmo -- what an excellent set list. Now I'd like a CD of that set!!
uh get in line :roll: kosmette is giving not so subtle hints about getting wedding reception cds together for april.
i have however been thinking about getting some of those 3" cdrs and putting together mp3 mixes. i need to figure out if for instance you can export/import a itunes playlist, etc. you willing to be a beta tester?
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
you willing to be a beta tester?
But of course!
Don't you burn MP3s the same way you do an audio CD? You just set your preference on MP3 instead of audio, then "burn" the iTunes playlist. That's the way I've always done it with regular CD-Rs.
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Originally posted by Bags:
See The Sounds at Coachella; it'll be a trip. ;)
nice story, sounds cool and they are defintely on my checklist now (yes, you need a freakin checklist at Coachella!!)
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Good show last night...I was impressed with Dios (great cover of "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies, I thought the Fire Theft were OK. Turns out I have hung out with one of the guitarists on a few occasions, did get a chance to say hello to him. Grandaddy were a lot of fun, though, just too bad their set was only 55 minutes. I have the setlist at home, have to say I was surprised with the songs they picked to play. It was great to hear "Velouria", another Pixies cover! They're a bit tighter than the last time I saw them...Grandaddy are a fantastic opening band, I wish they'd be playing at Coachella because they'd be great there. Anyone else go? Thoughts?
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The Fire Theft ruled last night. Only problem...their set was too short. They rule!
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I got there late so wasn´t able to see Dios. As for Grandaddy, I thought they were good, but the set was extremely short. Even though it was nice to hear them playing the Pixies' Velouria, I thought they didn't play it very well, pretty bad actually. The october show with SFA was their best show I have seen so far. They didn't seem very motivated either. I left before Saves the Day started playing.