Children of the KLYAM, in exactly one week Glen and I will be attending the Sonic Youth concert at the Wilbur Theatre! Yes, I know you’re envious. Well, to make you even more fucked in the head, totally outta your mind, crazy, a mere five days later we will witness the glorious Pixies, as the below post notes. And with opening acts like The Feelies and the one and only Jay Reatard, all time favorite shows could and should be expected!
P.S. Kim is sexy in that pic. Yeah, I know she’s like my mom’s age. So what? Excuse me for having blood pumping through my veins!
Boston Herald – Associated Press LOS ANGELES – With their sold-out European Doolittle Tour complete and a similar standing-room-only U.S. leg under way (which features a complete performance of their 1989 classic, “Doolittle,” each night), the Pixies are giving fans a unique opportunity to take the night’s performance home with them.
Starting on the first night of the group’s four-performance stand in New York City (Nov. 23), fans can purchase a CD of that night’s show about 10 minutes after the Pixies walk offstage. And for those attending shows before the 23rd, no need to fret – you can purchase recordings of earlier 2009 U.S. tour stops via the Web site doolittlelive.com.
Fans attending the Boston-bred Pixies’ homecoming shows Nov. 27 and 28 at Citi Wang Theatre will have the same opportunity.
Like Glen’s list these artists I have not seen live yet or I am not scheduled to see. Another criteria is that they must be currently active in some way, shape, or form. If an artist appears in more than one group, then they are listed together, for the most part. Also, the artists featured are my favorites except where noted and they are enumerated in order of how high they rank as my favorites.
1) Rage Against the Machine/The Nightwatchman aka Tom Morello/ Street Sweeper Social Club (not a favorite)
2) Australian Pink Floyd (technically PF is the favorite and not this cover group)
3) Tool
4) The Who
5) Bad Brains
6) Leonard Cohen
7) Against Me!
8) The Pogues
9) Arcade Fire
10) Nick Cave
11) The Almighty Defenders/ The Spooks (not fave)
12) Simon & Garfunkel
13) David Bowie
14) Beach Boys
15) Alice in Chains
16) Anti-Flag
17) Glassjaw
18) Descendents
19) Wu-Tang Clan
20) Ween
21) Lou Reed
22) The Stooges/Iggy Pop
23) Daniel Johnston
24) Kimya Dawson
25) Faith No More
26) Jesus and Mary Chain
27) Janes Addiction
28) The Kinks
29) The Vaselines
30) Incubus
31) Primus
32) New York Dolls
33) Black Sabbath
34) The Buzzcocks
35) X
36) The Mabuses
37) The Smashing Pumpkins
38) R.E.M
39) Rolling Stones
40) Neil Young
41) George Jones
42) Mudhoney
43) Bjork
44) Alice Cooper
45) Pharcyde
46) Immortal Technique
47) KRS-One
48) KISS
49) Strange Boys
50) Wavves
51) Devo
52) Beastie Boys
53) Shellac (NF)
54) Mika Miko (NF)
55) Vivian Girls (NF)
56) Cypress Hill
57) Paul McCartney (how could I forget him!)
58) Tom Waits
59) Mewithoutyou
60) MC5
K, I’ll stop here. There are plenty more I could name. I’m not exactly sure how active some of these bands’ statuses are, but basically if they weren’t on hiatus or completely disbanded, or dead I allowed it.
Artists: King Khan & BBQ Show, Dum Dum Girls, Downbeat 5 Location: Middle East Downstairs, Cambrdige Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 Rating: A +
Downbeat 5 –
Glen: I don’t really know how to describe them. For starters, I was standing right in front of the lead guitarist and he really knew what he was doing. He had some great solos. Definitely, they mixed some components of “southern” rock, country-rock, and garage. The lead singer and rhythm guitarist, she reminded me of Debbie Harry. During their set all I could think of was the song “One Way or Another.” So yeah, just listen to that and you’ll get a pretty good idea.
Chris: Country rockers, I suppose. The lead singer/guitarist was really sexy blonde and rocked out! One of the best guitar strummers I’ve ever seen! It doesn’t seem like I’ll hear them again, but I enjoyed their energetic performance.
Dum Dum Girls –
Glen: Hey guess what! The Dum Dum Girls (which I found out is only the front-woman Dee Dee) played the same lo-fi set as they did the night before in Northampton. So I’m going to say the same thing: They are smarter than they look! Okay, I stole that one from King. They really rocked out with their psychedelic Jefferson Airplane-esque sound. They built their vocal repertoire off of this old sound and it flat out works. My favorite part of their set was when they jammed the chords of “Don’t Talk To Me.” “Just button your lips…DON’T TALK TO ME.” The utterly amazing girly harmonies make me love their version better than G.G’s or No Age’s or whoever’s. Edit: I still like the bass player, but she is sort of motionless. Haha.
Chris: The sexiness continues! Very sexy in their all black wardrobes. Musically, however, for some reason, they didn’t connect with me. Perhaps because I was anticipating one of my favorite bands hitting the stage next. But, like Glen, I dug their cover of GG’s “Don’t Talk to Me,” (which seems to be a popular cover these days) and I liked the new feminine light they brought to the tune, though I prefer the original.
King Khan & BBQ Show:
Glen: Yeah! They came out and like the night before did a little warm-up (as you can see in the video below) before diving right into “Fish Fight.” Then “Hold Me Tight.” But hold on…the crowd was actually freaking out. Moshing, dancing, and screaming abound, the atmosphere was altogether different from what I experienced at the Iron Horse. This was some serious concert. People knew that greatness was on the stage. Then what? No technical difficulties! Hell no. None of that shit. Mark and King practiced for twenty minutes earlier that evening (even though the tour manager said “hours”…I’ll take BBQ’s word for it) to make sure shit wouldn’t happen. So yeah. “Invisible Girl,” “Tastebuds,” and “I’ll Be Loving You” off of Invisible Girl. “Treat Me Like A Dog,” “I’ll Never Belong,” “Zombies,” “Dock It #8,” “Too Much In Love,” “Into The Snow,” and the encore “Why Don’t You Lie” off of What’s For Dinner? “Waddlin’ Around,” “Love You So,” “Pig Pig,” “Mind Body and Soul,” “Shake Real Low,” as well as the previous two mentioned at the beginning were the tunes played off of their LP.
Chris: Fuck yeah! As seen below, they opened with a long, but worthwhile instrumental, while King did the duck walk a la rock and roller Chuck Berry. Following the instrumental, they blasted into two fiery rockers with “Fish Fight” and “Zombies” (not HMT lol). Then they slid into the soft, sensual “Into the Snow,” this was somewhat awkward considering the fast paced first two numbers and then this sensitive, love song. Glen already listed off the other classics they amazignly performed for the remainder of the evening. I was highly pleased that they played my favorite, “Too Much in Love.” “Shake Real Low” was a wise closer and everyone abided by the title, espeically some real fine hunnies on stage! Overall, a good mix up of soulful, doo woppy ballads, fast, moshing, punk rockers, and in between. So, this enters the echelon of amazing concerts, ranking number four in my all time favorites. Though, I will note, I prefer KKBS over Jay Reatard, who headlined my third favorite show, but that concert was better overall. In other words, KKBS is my third favorite live band, after the Black Lips and King’s other band, the Shrines. I mean, you know if you see a concert where an entire room of adults are screaming, “tastebuds on your cunt, so you can lick my booty from the front!” it has to be special.
Hopes: I hope they play all the songs Glen saw last night in addition to “Too Much in Love”- I WILL GO INSANE IF THEY PLAY THIS NUMBER and “What’s For Dinner?” It is a better concert than the one Glen described even though that sounded amazing. The crowd is really engergetic and engaged and everyone shaking their ass to the floor and it’s in my top 2 favorite concerts!
Expectations: They play most, but not all of those songs. I have a great time. It’s “up there” as one of the best I’ve seen.
For going to Northampton tonight to see the King Khan & BBQ Show despite the fact that I am going to see them tommorow at the Middle East as well? Well…I really hope that I get there on time to see the Show. There is some risk involved and a question of: is it really worth it? Well, in addition to seeing two geniuses, I want to pick up a copy of their Invisible Girl LP that I will (hopefully) spend all tommorow listening to.
Boston Herald – Associated Press
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