I agree that St. Vincent sounded great, but was kind of boring live. However, I don't agree that Bird was boring. He had my attention the whole time. There's just so much going on musically that I cannot find it boring.
I agree that there was a whole lot going on musically, and for me that would make it interesting to
listen to.
But interesting to watch? That's a different story. There were four guys playing instruments. Thanks to tapes and loops and whatnot, there was more than four things going on at once. That might make it interesting to listen to, but visually, it's actually rather disconcerting to me.
And Bird himself offered little to no personality with his minimal between song banter and stories. He just seems sort of meek and a tad pretentious.
Plus, I tend to like to watch performers who are interesting to look at. Not necessarily good looking,but interesting to look at. To me, Bird is short, scrawny, has bad hair, and is not interesting to watch. St. Vincent is pretty, but she's boring to look at as well. And none of their sidemen were at all interesting to watch. (mind you, I couldn't see Marin Dosh, so can't comment on him)
And all that whistling and fiddling is just not all that interesting to watch, when it's all that's going on.. I'd rather much watch Nels Cline play guitar.
