Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Ok ok ok...
Alright so I don't mind so much posting slow since next to nobody reads this.

I saw Rilo Kiley Friday and it was really good. The first opener was Tilly and the walls, a five-member "band" that consisted of a keyboard player, two female singers, a very gay guitarist and a tapdancer in place of the traditional drums or any sort of percussion. While the music wasn't that great, I was sold on them by the freakshow value of the tapdancing.

The second band was Now its overhead. I liked them quite a bit, theyre sort of a spacy, high distortion emo band. The singer was a bit fruity but overall they sounded really good. I wouldn't reccomend them though because their live show is really way better than their CD. I bought it at the show and barely recognized the songs I had heard. It really has no energy and just wasn't mixed well in my opinion.

Rilo Kiley came on and was a good payoff. Jenny is really tiny and was hard to see unless I stood on my toes, but she switched back and forth from guitar to keyboard and they did just about every song I like and wanted to hear. She was funny and they talked about how the bassist invented an ant free dogbowl with a water moat. At the end she sang in the crowd.

Muse was another story altogether. Not too enthused about Sunday night shows that are two hours away from home, I just had to go anyway. I tried to get there late to miss the line and opener, but ti didn't really work out since they started real late. The opening band I forget their name because they were absolutely terrible. They were the anti-Muse. The singer alternated between singing poorly and screaming, and their songs were really dull and plodding. I am not one to outdo anyone on guitar, but I've been in high school bands with much more well written songs and guitar parts. ugh! it was bad.

Muse started and it was bad news for one reason...way too much strobe light. My wife gets really bothered by it and she couldn't look. I think they strobed through the entire first song. While they played awesome and he sang just as powerfully as the CD's, that kinda sucked. I spent some time in the back, and for the second half I went up near the front by myself. They played songs off all 3 albums, and everyone flipped out when they played the radio song off absolution. Its weird because I don't think that song is any better or worse than any song on the album. I guess people like familiarity. I experienced something like that at a Weezer show. It was just before the green album was coming out and everyone would go nuts and sing along to Buddy Holly and Sweater song and all the old songs, but they play some new toons and everyone stands dead still. It was really retarded, it was like I was one of the only ones into hearing new songs. It was then that I learned that most people that go to concerts are lame, like 80%.
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