soundgarden was awesome. the show was everything a good rock concert should be. i too could watch matt cameron drum all night. only complaint is that the snare was mixed a little low (tho it was even lower for MV).
there were about 8 women sitting by me who spent the entire show yelling "chris, we love you, take your shirt off!!!", "rip it off cornell!!!" "lose the t-shirt!", etc. their only goal seemed to be getting cornell topless. they eventually recruited a bunch of other people to join in the pro-shirtless chants. i don't think cornell ever heard them but it made for a fun & funny atmosphere. reverse sexism, woohoo!
text sent to the director: "last time i saw this many people in SG t-shirts: 1995". thirty seconds after i sent that, cornell says "shout-out to all the folks wearing the old shirts from our first time 'round... can't believe those things are still holding together!"
The Mars Volta keep on shambling these days I guess :-/ Anyone else care shed some light on their performance?
sure: it was certifiably boring, when not downright bad. omar provided some decent guitar wankery from time to time, but as a band they never came up with anything that i enjoyed. a case of the whole not adding up to the sum of its parts. cedric's wailing was annoying. the mix wasn't very good, very mushy and unbalanced - low snare, too much vox, etc.
