Concerts thread: Best/Worst/Next/Last one you attended?

In my mind, The Gaslight Anthem has made one perfect album. I do not recognize the existence of anything else. Fallon must now dream about a scenario in which he made 59 Sound and then just dropped the mic and walked away.

 

I like some songs on their other albums, but agree that they're definitely weak compared to '59 Sound. I will say, though, that the other albums play much better live than recorded. The Diamond Street Church Choir is a really fun live song.

 

Agreed, that album is great from beginning to end. There hasn't been anything on either of their subsequent albums that could replace one song on that album.

 

PCLoadletter never fails to remind me of how good their albums sound live given that he has seen them and every time they are in the Toronto area I am out of town or unable to go for some reason. They are part of some indie music fest here next month, will try to get to that.

 

This was my first time seeing them since the latest album, and made me like a few of those songs more than I did before. "Too Much Blood" was really good live, whereas I usually skip it when it comes on my iPod.

 

I'm about to "get" to go to Train, Gavin DeGraw, and...The Script? Is that right? Fuck it, who cares.

 

Ha! The Gaslight Anthem came up and you beat me to it. Yeah, I saw them when they were touring behind "American Slang" and those songs were better live than on record. I think the only cover they did was "The War" by Lucero.

I saw Rod Stewart last night at Caesar's in Vegas. Clearly, I fucked up thinking it would be a Rod Stewart concert. It was a Vegas show. He had a band that swelled to about 20 people at times, with dancing girls/backup singers and a fleet of girls in cocktail dresses playing the strings, allowing them to perfectly reproduce the overproduced schlock of his early 80s hits while he clowned around. The one real high point was when he announced he was going to do a song they hadn't done in the 2 years he'd been performing at Caesar's, and a stripped down version of the band tore through "Every Picture Tells a Story" minus all the bullshit. It was terrific. On the plus side, his voice still sounds great.

 

Very sad to hear Rod has been there two years without ever playing the best song he ever wrote.

 

I know - I can't even imagine how aggravating the night would have been without that.

I had some loud, drunk shit for brains behind me singing along hideously off key to stuff like "Rhythm of my Heart" and "Some Guys Have All the Luck." Thankfully he seemed utterly unfamiliar with anything pre-"Hot Legs," so he couldn't accompany "Every Picture Tells a Story," "Maggie May" and "Reason to Believe."

 

I don't know anything about Gaslight Anthem, but if the performer's copping attitude to the crowd I'd yell out 'Bruce,' too. In that anecdote it's the performer, not crowd, who comes off sounding like a tool.


Anyway, we just saw Sonny Landreth with Gary Hoey and Johnny Winter.
Landreth was fantastic. I didn't know anything about Hoey, but he put on a good show.
Winter had a very off night. I felt bad for the old guy.

 

Rush last night. Great show. YYZ with a string ensemble was awesome. Wife got a kick out of Paul Rudd making a guest "conductor" appearance with said string ensemble.

No opener, just three hours of Rush with a 20-minute intermission. Couple of great Peart solos. The lighting and special effects were on point as always.

 

Savoy Brown coming up.