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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Bags on August 18, 2004, 12:51:00 pm
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Anyone going, and anyone have a guess as to how sold out this baby might be....? I haven't decided if I'm getting to this, going to Stiff Little Fingers, or saving my energy for the coming early Sept onslaught... And there's Thursday (the day tomorrow, not the HFS band)!
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"anyone have a guess as to how sold out this baby might be....?"
I'm guessing extra-sold out! ;)
Hard to gauge that one really. The new record is getting such mixed reviews.
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What's up with people? These guys are great live! We'll be there...assuming the Acela Express gets in on time.
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Originally posted by xcanuck:
These guys are great live!
This is what I keep hearing, from fairly jaded concert-goers, in particular...
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personally i saw them a couple years ago and it was one of the biggest trainwrecks ever and this was before they became even a bigger jammish bandthey are now.. i couldn't detect a single hook, rythmic pattern or anything redeemable. granted i was in bad mood because Beulah was the warmup act and turned out horrid. I was so up for seeing them. instead of the quirky pop of "when your heartstrings break" it was generic guitar rock.
back to gomez... they are one of those bands that beyond the second or third hypen it means they are trying to hard to be something they aint' i.e. rock-folk-blues-electronic, and IMHO often sounds like a train wreck...
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jam band-esque, kosmo? really? ugh!
erm, i think i might be passing on this show now as i value kosmo's judgement.
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Never heard of these guys. What's their sound?
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Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
Never heard of these guys. What's their sound?
jam band-esque :D
AMG sez their style is:
British Trad Rock
Indie Rock
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Alternative Pop/Rock
Britpop
Experimental Rock
and similar artists are:
The Beta Band
Blur
Super Furry Animals
Cornelius
Arnold
Pearl Jam
Hefner
Spiritualized
The Delta 72
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
I wouldn't have said one of those.
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Originally posted by lily1:
jam band-esque, kosmo? really? ugh!
erm, i think i might be passing on this show now as i value kosmo's judgement.
there are others who will disagree and agree with me on this statement and i haven't seen them since 1999 so maybe their live performances have improved since then. still not interested...
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i am working this show tonight.
gomez are ok, IMO...not bad, but not that good, either. i agree with kozmo for the most part...gomez suffer severe identity crisis. i'm all for being diverse, but these guys tend to come off like they have no direction and no idea what they really want to be. some bands can pull off blending different subgenres of rock quite seemlessly, but gomez try a bit too hard.
i worked their show back in january and it was decent. nothing i'd go out of my way to see.
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jam-band esque? What, is that like a Dave Matthews Band sound?
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never mind. Don't respond to that.
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If it were not for the last album I would try and defend Gomez from the naysayers. But the last/current album is bobbins.
The other three albums are very fine and I think the fuse their different musical genres and influences very well and thankfully dont sound like anyone in-particular.
I have seen them four time and whilst they were all good shows the third time was the best. Probably because I really like in our gun and they didnt play any songs off of the current album.
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I saw Gomez right after they released Get Myself Arrested as a single in Dingwalls in Camden Town. It had to be around April in '98. That was a great show mainly because I was really drunk, Beth Orton walked right by me, and it was Camden Town. There is nothing like walking along the canal drunk at night. They also played to about 40 people at TT The Bears that fall and it wasn't as good. I was also part of the largest mass pogoing I have ever been a part of when I saw them at Glasto '99. It was then, when I loooked around, that I realized they were for the kids.
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Kosmo, I've read what your saying about that whole jam-band vibe (if not direct affiliation) a few different places, and hence have been kind of hesitant about this show. I must say, I too take your opinion to heart on such matters, as you're a of a fairly like mind to me on music and have always steered me in the right direction.
What about Stiff Little Fingers?!
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Originally posted by lily1:
jam band-esque, kosmo? really? ugh!
erm, i think i might be passing on this show now as i value kosmo's judgement.
there are others who will disagree and agree with me on this statement and i haven't seen them since 1999 so maybe their live performances have improved since then. still not interested... [/b]
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I agree there are jam tendencies with Gomez, but most of the time I just say it to get a rise out of Mark E. I have seen Gomez twice and have enjoyed about half of the show, they are boring when they start "jamming". I prefer the songs sung by the guy with the deep voice. And having listened to the new album once I can agree it is awful and don't know what they were thinking.
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Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
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What about Stiff Little Fingers?!
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A Big thumbs up Stiff Little Fingers, if only to be able to see Bruce Foxton from The Jam rock out on bass! I saw them a few years in Edinburgh and the show was Great.
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So did anybody go to this show. I was thinking of going but after reading this thread I stayed home.
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Ditto, I missed everything last night. An office mate went, but he thinks Gomez is one of the best live bands going, so he's not a good indicator. Though even he left before the set was over.
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gomez played for over two hours last night. i like a few of their songs, but their jamming is interminable. i say this as someone who plays improv and loves bands like can and old pink floyd, so i'm not opposed to jamming at all. however, i hate "jam bands" and don't like bands who jam that have nothing to offer. gomez aren't the worst at it, but all of their jams sound the same.
i liked them more in 1999 when they were young, raw, and more focused, which trumps being accomplished musicians with aimless eclecticism any day.
overall, ok show but way too long. of course, i was working, so i don't get to pay full attention to bands when they play, so my observations were made between doing club tasks.
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Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
There is nothing like walking along the canal drunk at night.
amen to that. one of my oldest friends lives in camden and showed me what she termed "nothing but the usual" on a thursday night. 8 hours later I woke up naked in her kitchen. The headache was gone in about an hour, but the shit-eating grin lasted for days.
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Originally posted by snailhook:
but their jamming is interminable. i say this as someone who plays improv and loves bands like can and old pink floyd, so i'm not opposed to jamming at all.
Oy, I am so glad I didn't go. I don't know why -- I have the shortest trigger ever when it comes to jams, even if it's coming from one of my favorite bands. Playing a great song, adding to it in a live setting, is one thing, but I just go nuts once it goes on too long, is too much an exercise in "look how great we play..." I don't want to be annoyed so quickly, I just am. One of the things I think about a lot -- how people have an almost visceral response to music, what you like, what you don't (at least I do, so I assume others do....I can't talk myself in to liking a band...).
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Saw them last night in Towson. I thought the show was great!! They played for two hours and mixed it up with old and new.
The opening band (guy) sucked. Rip off of G. Love & Special Sauce. I like GLSS though.