Ash preshow confab

[Bags]

*sniff, sniff*
 
 Didn't make it.  Had a friend in crisis, and it was 11:15 when I was heading home.  Plus, had a fall in a manhole in G'town (like it wasn't bad enough that I was in G'town to start with!)
 
 So, since I missed 'em, if I get an Ash album, what should it be??

[markie]

68% of me says get 1977
 30% of me Free All Angels
 1% Trailer
 1% post nuclear sounds
 
 1977 has most of my favourite ash songs on it.

[kosmo vinyl]

well seeing that 1977, Trailer and Free All Angels can probably be bought in total for under a tenner start there... stay away from from post nuclear sounds even the band hated it.   free all angels is my fav much more polished then the early stuff. but the first two are worthy contenders.

[redsock]

If you can find an import of "Intergalactic 7s" or whatever their greatest hits cd is, you'll find every song they played last night, minus the new stuff, plus tons more, and a bunch of B sides. I forget what I paid for it, but it is worth it. Though, "1977" and "Free All Angels" are both great albums in their own right.

[markie]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  well seeing that 1977, Trailer and Free All Angels can probably be bought in total for under a tenner start there...

where do you do your CD buying....
 
 Sure my copies didnt cost much, but I was patient in waiting for them to turn up second hand.... Actually come to think of it I bought free all angels new for $10, then found a promo of it for $1......

[kosmo vinyl]

didn't you have a $1 copy of 1977??  and price for free all angels start out low... it still sells for $11 new at the kinectic records and bet it's around $10 as worst buys...

[markie]

I think my replacement, coming to the US copy of 1977 came from Kemp Mill second hand for $7.....it is a promo though.

[Jaguär]

Kosmo, I missed you and Kosmette in the 'lounge' area. Poorlulu and Markie, where the Hell were you? I looked for you during and after the show both upstairs and downstairs but never saw you.
 
 Definitely a fun show and I especially liked the new song called Orpheus that they did during the encore. Wasn't surprised to hear Tim say that this was the best reception ever that they've received in the US. Quite uncharacteristic of a DC crowd. They were wild from beginning till end.
 
 Totally missed the 1st band. I think I liked White Light better live than recorded but they were definitely too loud. No one I'd go out of my way for but fun filler.
 
 Got there late because of the monsoon I had to endure on my drive down from Baltimore. I tell ya, I don't know where the Ark of the Covenent is but I was certainly praying to find it last night! Thank God that I know the roads pretty well now. Besides being dark (which was the easy part) it was nothing but a wall of water. Visibility was almost nill. The roads looked like clouds that were raining upside down. Flashes of lightening that would literally blind you for a moment or so once they struck. I was completely shocked that I never saw any accidents at all last night. Traffic that is usually speeding along at about 70+ mph was down to about 20-30 mph. It was amazing how few cars pulled over. Md/DC/Va drivers must be pros now when it comes to any kind of rain driving. Someone should give us honorary Mariners licenses.

[markie]

We must have been avoiding you then Jaguar....
 
 We got trapped in pollys and got to blackcat 2 songs before White whatever finished. We hung around after the show both upstairs and downstairs.
 
 Lulu had to get her hug from Tim.....

[poorlulu]

i managed to avoid everyone last night...............
 
 where the hell was everyone?
 
 oh and timmmmmmmmy,timmmmmmmmmmy timmmmmmmy..................

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by eertedaj:
  I was just on the Ash site and apparently their Richmond show was cancelled because Alley Katz could not afford to pay them.  How does that happen?

not really hard to figure out when the clubs website is hosted by tripod... looks like a pretty amateur outfit that gets lucky with the bookings once in awhile

[mjnova]

Originally posted by redsock:
 
 Oh, and Kosmo, the songs "Envy", not "Enemy." Not one of my favorites either.

I thought that was the one weak spot of the night.  Never really was a coherent song, and sounds even messier live.  Rest of the set was spot on.  I'm glad that they've given up on playing nuclear sounds live, as it is indeed a pretty crap album.  I think Tim realized that he should just stick with pop songs for a while, hopefully that'll last at least another album or two.
 
 Just Jinger will probably become huge, open for Dave Matthews and take over the world.  And I'll proudly say that I hated them right from the start.

[kosmo vinyl]

you know not many bands start at jaxx and end up ruling the world, usually its the other way around.
 
 just jinger will tour with sheryl crow and end up boring the world,  seeing as they share management.  i should bought one of their cds so i could unload on ebay for big bucks right after they break big.  although they already failed to make a name for themselves in UK and i don't see the US market being any friendlier.

[Jaguär]

What exactly was it that Tim said about Dashboard Confessional? Between not remembering and not being able to hear all that clearly with the crappy sound, I'm not all that sure. Something about asking if we knew who he was and some people cheered. Then a wave of us booed.        Finally, he said something about him being a fucker. I think he may have said that Dash.C. had said to him that they (Ash) suck. But I do remember Tim saying that he hated that fucker and that if we ever see him to tell him that he said "Fuck you!" That was great.
 
 Bet that has something to do with why Ash cancelled out of the U. of Md. show.  

[jadetree]

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  What exactly was it that Tim said about Dashboard Confessional? Between not remembering and not being able to hear all that clearly with the crappy sound, I'm not all that sure. Something about asking if we knew who he was and some people cheered. Then a wave of us booed.        Finally, he said something about him being a fucker. I think he may have said that Dash.C. had said to him that they (Ash) suck. But I do remember Tim saying that he hated that fucker and that if we ever see him to tell him that he said "Fuck you!" That was great.

It wasn't Dashboard he said he hated.  It was a guy in the crowd who had yelled "You Suck" at the same stopping point in the same song.  He said he didnt want to get in to what we thought about Dashboard.