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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: freddyadu on June 01, 2004, 12:27:00 am
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I loooooved "Heartstrings", but the last two albums did very little for me. Should I go to the BC Tuesday night?
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I'll be there. When Beulah came through last year, it was awesome. They played way beyond their settime (much to the chagrin of certain Black Cat staff). Around 11pm, all the Metro riders had to leave and the club was fairly empty. The band started taking requests and talking, really talking, to the crowd. It was awesome-- such an interactive, intimate feeling show.
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Their last show was excellent, so we will be there tonight. Besides, it's Ballgirl's birthday, and Beulah is one of her favorite bands.
Anyday seen Dios and have an opinion?
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Yea, a thousand times yea. They are a great band and they put on a great show.
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How could you not like, the coast is never clear?
Umm,
I thought they were pretty good last time. And the stripped down, demo, version of Yoko is a fine listen.
Why are they touring again? do they have more material? I thought the last time they toured they were talking of breaking up?
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Anyday seen Dios and have an opinion?
Yeah Ronnie James Dio rules!!!!!!! :p
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I'd completely forgotten about this show...I'm planning on it.
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Aboslutely yea!
Saw them a couple of months ago and loved the show.
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Good questions. I don't think they have any new material out. I guess they are just touring to please us, their lucky fans. I am on their email list, and their email said something about this being the last time they will tour in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Take that with a grain of salt, given their previous breakup rumors.
I would think it would be difficult for that many guys to get time off from their day jobs.
Originally posted by mark e smith:
How could you not like, the coast is never clear?
Umm,
I thought they were pretty good last time. And the stripped down, demo, version of Yoko is a fine listen.
Why are they touring again? do they have more material? I thought the last time they toured they were talking of breaking up?
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Anyday seen Dios and have an opinion?
They were first on the lineup at Coachella... If I remember correctly, they were pretty good but certainly not one of the stand-out memorable acts.
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Any idea of set times for each band?
Haven't been to the Cat in awhile, so not sure...
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With just one opener and 8:30 doors, I'd say 9:00 and 10:00.
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definitely YEA.
great show,
loser drunk chicks at the front of the stage were a real pain.
glad you guys talked me into going.
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yup, though they played it safer this time, actually ending their set at a reasonable hour. the crowd was also far larger at this show than last year's.
my favorite is how they play their good old stuff! damn, a lot of bands need to figure this one out...
and the cell phone thing was classy. and they took requests again. and the drummer is hot. *swoon*
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
and they took requests again.
but still no Score from Augusta
I kind of wish they would keep all the good old songs for the end of the set, the encore was not great, but the show was still good
I did not notice a huge difference in crowd size
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Re: Dios- Good to see that Michael Moore has a second gig as a singer/guitarist. He should probably stick to filmmaking though.
Re: Beulah- They are a solid live band, but somehow the beauty of Heartstrings and Coast get lost in the mix. They opt for more of a rock sound, and end up losing some of the intricacy. Still, with the catchiness of some of their songs, they pull it all off.
Re: Chimbleysweep- So we saw this chick wearing a yellow "bike it" t-shirt as we were coming in. Was that you?
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*blush*
yes, yellow. unusual for my blue self.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Re: Beulah- They are a solid live band, but somehow the beauty of Heartstrings and Coast get lost in the mix.
That is what I thought. If they were less rock inclined live, their show would be much more enjoyable for me. As it was I spent the whole time wishing they sounded more like the Demo album.
Turned what I thought should be a great show into just an OK one for me.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Turned what I thought should be a great show into just an OK one for me.
I think you were disappointed and surprisingly saddened by the lack of a Bags siting...
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Beulah, Dios Surf Up Some California Sound
Thursday, June 3, 2004; Page C10
The Washington Post
The California sound is alive and well, even if it's mutated a bit since the golden age of the Byrds, the Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield. Two California pop-rock bands, Beulah and Dios, gave solid accounts of their eclectic styles Tuesday night at the Black Cat. If neither group could reproduce the full range of its studio sound, each compensated with a looser, livelier approach.
Beulah is a San Francisco sextet that's often supplemented on disc by strings and horns. Onstage, singer-guitarist Bill Swan sometimes played trumpet, but the band's live sound was simpler and brisker than its recordings. Miles Kurosky, the band's other singer-guitarist and its principal songwriter, specializes in jaunty regrets, and in concert the jauntiness came on stronger than the regret. Beulah isn't a band to achieve full ecstatic abandon, but it delivered these brokenhearted directives with something approaching joy.
Dios is from Hawthorne, the Beach Boys' home town, and has clearly taken this coincidence to heart. On its self-titled debut, the quintet interjects the entire vocal bridge of the Boys' "You Still Believe in Me" into its own "Fifty Cents." At the Black Cat, singer-guitarist Joel Morales scaled back this homage, merely summoning an instrumental version of the musical phrase from a sampler he periodically employed. Dios handled its gentle, intricate material more harshly than on its album, ending nearly all of its numbers with noisy rave-ups. The rough-edged renditions didn't banish the songs' melodic appeal, but they eventually became monotonous.
-- Mark Jenkins