So a couple thoughts on the REM show.
1) the National were good good! Its nice to see an opening band win over hundreds of fans in the course of 30 minutes. When they went on, about 12 people stood up...when they went off, about 2000. cool.
2) Well, I figured out that I really dont like very many bands who dont "sing". Modest Mouse falls into this category...so does Jon Spencer, Sleater-Kinney, Nick Cave....I just cant stand it. Johnny Marr was alright though and man does that singer SWEAT!
3) Michael Stipe may be like 55 but he still acts 30 and thats pretty cool.
4) REM has so many damn songs its like they played for 2 hours and still had like 20 songs off the top of my head i can remember them not playing!
5) Stipe kicked me in the head when he was sitting on the subwoofers next to the stage.
6) One of the guys in the band now looks like Jerry Garcia.
7) When Stipe pulled out the Obama button (he was nice enough to wait to get campaign-ey til the end, half of the crowd boo-ed. Yes, Michael, most of your fans are now old enough that they only care about themselves and vote Republicsn.
