um, i had a pretty good time. there were some bumps early on where craig just flat out forgot lyrics in two different songs. it was the first show of the tour and he's got more lyrics than anyone so it's sort of understandable. my main problem w/the show was that i don't think he should be playing guitar, he should just focus on singing. his vocals/lyrics are clearly the defining feature of the band, what makes them great. yes, they are a damn rockin' bar band, but that works as a complement to his vocals. so when he's focused on playing guitar -- which was only half time, granted, the rest of the time he just wore it as a decoration -- it threw off his timing, he'd come in late on lines, deliver them sort of ... not so great. not that i need it to sound exactly like the album, but it shouldn't sound WORSE than the album. that said, i went w/a friend who had never really heard them and he said it didn't bother him and he enjoyed it a lot.
the songs from the first album sounded a lot better, perhaps because they played them later in the set once they started rolling. and once i started getting drunker. "the swish"/"killer parties" medley was spot on. but yeah, it was a good time, if not a total revelation.
and man, this band would definitely break rhett's "non-sexiness scale." and combined with swearing at motorists (who i thought i liked back in '99 or so, but they certainly sucked last nite) ... wow. i wasn't thinking weird al or frank zappa, i was thinking more oates. as in, hall and. but zappa seems more accurate in retrospect.
