Decemberists @ 9:30, 10.02.05

[mr. pretentious]

You can get presale tix here.  I got mine!
 
 Check out the rest of the dates here.  Quite the extensive tour schedule!

[Bags]

Saw that...I'm wondering if the show will sell out fast, though, so I can not spend the $4 per ticket.

[ggw]

I just returned from my local Starbucks, where they were spinning the Decemberists.  Can an appearance on the O.C. be far behind?

[jkeisenh]

wow, the decemberists are now a presale-worthy band?  who knew.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

If people are paying $55 for a Devo ticket, anything is possible.
 
 

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wow, the decemberists are now a presale-worthy band?  who knew.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  If people are paying $55 for a Devo ticket, anything is possible.
 
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wow, the decemberists are now a presale-worthy band?  who knew.

[/b]

Have you ever seen Devo in concert?  How do you know they aren't worth $55?
 
 I saw them on every tour up until 1984.  Even when the newer material weren't quite up to snuff with their earlier material, the shows were still great and some of the best I ever went to.  
 
 And since your hung up on stats.  0f the sevens post 1981 releases with all  2.5 stars or less ratings on Allmusic.   Three of those were releases only a fan would care for... a live record, a collection of material taken from a cd-rom game and mukaz versions of thier own material.
 
 While "Shout" and "Oh No It's Devo" aren't up to snuff with early stuff, partly as the Allmusic review points out because the bands innovative synthpop sound had gone mainstream by then and the band was trying to fit in with a slicker sound, they are still good records which just lack the irony, innovation and  edge of their earlier stuff.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

In all truthfulness, I would never pay $55 to see any band, particularly any club show. And if forced to at gunpoint, Devo would be pretty low on the list of choices. To me, they were an 80's novelty act, nothing more.
 
    But I guess people can overpay for anything they wish. I (over)pay more than $55 to see one NASCAR race per year.
 
 
 

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  If people are paying $55 for a Devo ticket, anything is possible.
 
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wow, the decemberists are now a presale-worthy band?  who knew.

[/b]

Have you ever seen Devo in concert?  How do you know they aren't worth $55?
 
 I saw them on every tour up until 1984.  Even when the newer material weren't quite up to snuff with their earlier material, the shows were still great and some of the best I ever went to.  
 
 And since your hung up on stats.  0f the sevens post 1981 releases with all  2.5 stars or less ratings on Allmusic.   Three of those were releases only a fan would care for... a live record, a collection of material taken from a cd-rom game and mukaz versions of thier own material.
 
 While "Shout" and "Oh No It's Devo" aren't up to snuff with early stuff, partly as the Allmusic review points out because the bands innovative synthpop sound had gone mainstream by then and the band was trying to fit in with a slicker sound, they are still good records which just lack the irony, innovation and  edge of their earlier stuff. [/b]

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  In all truthfulness, I would never pay $55 to see any band, particularly any club show. And if forced to at gunpoint, Devo would be pretty low on the list of choices. To me, they were an 80's novelty act, nothing more.
 
     

hardly a novelty act...

[markie]

how many bands called Devo are there?
 
   <img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/1024/devo.jpg" alt=" - " />

[kosmo vinyl]

and what they wore was any different the the costumes The Sex Pistols wore? it set them apart from loads of other bands didn't it which was the point.

[markie]

yeah the sex pistols were even more of a novelty act. They had one album and a svengali.
 
 But at least they all didnt take the stage wearing the same outfit. And if they had that outfit probably would not have been a yellow rubber biohazard suit and sunglasses.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

The Decemberists may be pre-sale worthy, but it didn't take long to change the thread topic.

[BookerT]

In all truthfulness, I would never pay $55 to see any band, particularly any club show.

see, while it's highly unlikely i'd pay $55 for any band myself, if i was going to shell out that kind of cash i'd be a lot more likely to do it for a club show than an arena/amphitheater show. like, i personally wouldn't pay $75 for al green, but for those that did, at least they got to be up close and personal instead of with 12,000 other folks.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'd be more inclined to pay $55 for a show at a non-smoking venue where I could sit down in a seat near the front/center of the stage, not be crowded or stood in front of, at a venue with good acoustics. That probably would not be a 12,000 seater that you refer to.
 
    And where is it that Al Green can pull in 12,000 people to a ticketed show in 2005?
 
   

Originally posted by BookerT:
   

In all truthfulness, I would never pay $55 to see any band, particularly any club show.

see, while it's highly unlikely i'd pay $55 for any band myself, if i was going to shell out that kind of cash i'd be a lot more likely to do it for a club show than an arena/amphitheater show. like, i personally wouldn't pay $75 for al green, but for those that did, at least they got to be up close and personal instead of with 12,000 other folks. [/b]

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I just returned from my local Starbucks, where they were spinning the Decemberists.  Can an appearance on the O.C. be far behind?

Yeah, I heard "The Sporting Life" being played at The Gap, as well as The Go! Team's "Ladyflash". wtf??
 
 Not too proud to admit that I was in The Gap, but I just got some new white undershirts, and was looking for some nice polos to wear over top...