Monday, October 27, 2008
Concert and such!
It's been a while...
Tuesday was a great night! Because of some street teaming mishap, a friend of a friend wound up with two extra tickets to the Rock Band Live Tour and didn't have a ride, so said friend and I took the extra tickets and drove. The Cab, Plain White T's, Dashboard Confessional and Panic at the Disco all performed, along with some people who played Rock Band 2 on stage for winning a competition in the lobby(our band, "The Adjectives" didn't win, mostly due to my inability to use the flipping drum pedal...). My thoughts on the bands:
The Cab was pretty really good. I'm sad to say that my first reaction to hearing they were playing was "You mean Death Cab for Cutie?". The answer was a unanimous "No" joined with death stares from all the FBR scene kids around me. Their music was jovial and dancey with some nice guitar riffs thrown in to make sure they didn't get too poppy. It's the kind of music that's great to groove to in the car, but after a couple of listens on their myspace page(hard core research, right?) I can't say that I would get much more than the occasional clever lyric and addictive hook out of them.
Next was the Plain White T's. We actually missed their first song, their latest single "Natural Disaster", becaus Lindsey and I were busy trying to win the formerly mentioned Rock Band competition. Can't say I missed too much. They're pretty sappy, almost naseua enducingly so during one song... like "Three Words" or something... I don't remember the title(hard core research, right?). But even if "Hey There Delilah" fits into that category, it's still a fun song and we blew our vocal chords out when they did "Hate is a Strong Word(But I Really Really Really Don't Like You)".
Third was Dashboard Confessional. They were amazing. "Vindicated" is probably on my top ten favourite songs. I was all about them in high school, and that's all I really have to say about that.
Before Panic went on, there was a lovely surprise. Dashboard called The Cab and Plain White T's to the stage and they all performed Pink's "So What". Lindsey and I collectively shit a brick and lost our voices all over again. It made me extremely happy :)
Finally, Panic at the Disco performed. They're one of my favourite bands, despite their total change in direction on their last album. I didn't enjoy "Pretty. Odd." too much because it seemed that it was way over produced. Though the songs and lyrics were great, it seemed that there was almost too much noise. I kind of go along the lines of less is more when it comes to musical depth(Forget Cassettes have three instruments and somehow I can listen to the same song on repeat for an hour and still appreciate it for something different), and all the orchestral scores made songs that should have been great just seem meh(I'm looking at you, "Jolly Green Gentleman"!). But watching them live with just guitar, bass, drums and an occasional piano made me realize just how great they are and how much I want them to release an accoustic album. They played their new songs, their old songs and a cover of "Shout"(You know you make me want to...). They were deffinatly the highlite of the concert and the reason my voice has been gravely all week.
A bunch of other stuff happened. Got a speeding ticket, met a fun chica, played the new Clue, got Panic's autographs, watched a homeless person attack said chica and learned how to kill a man with my car keys from Panic's body guard, Zach.
Tuesday was a great night! Because of some street teaming mishap, a friend of a friend wound up with two extra tickets to the Rock Band Live Tour and didn't have a ride, so said friend and I took the extra tickets and drove. The Cab, Plain White T's, Dashboard Confessional and Panic at the Disco all performed, along with some people who played Rock Band 2 on stage for winning a competition in the lobby(our band, "The Adjectives" didn't win, mostly due to my inability to use the flipping drum pedal...). My thoughts on the bands:
The Cab was pretty really good. I'm sad to say that my first reaction to hearing they were playing was "You mean Death Cab for Cutie?". The answer was a unanimous "No" joined with death stares from all the FBR scene kids around me. Their music was jovial and dancey with some nice guitar riffs thrown in to make sure they didn't get too poppy. It's the kind of music that's great to groove to in the car, but after a couple of listens on their myspace page(hard core research, right?) I can't say that I would get much more than the occasional clever lyric and addictive hook out of them.
Next was the Plain White T's. We actually missed their first song, their latest single "Natural Disaster", becaus Lindsey and I were busy trying to win the formerly mentioned Rock Band competition. Can't say I missed too much. They're pretty sappy, almost naseua enducingly so during one song... like "Three Words" or something... I don't remember the title(hard core research, right?). But even if "Hey There Delilah" fits into that category, it's still a fun song and we blew our vocal chords out when they did "Hate is a Strong Word(But I Really Really Really Don't Like You)".
Third was Dashboard Confessional. They were amazing. "Vindicated" is probably on my top ten favourite songs. I was all about them in high school, and that's all I really have to say about that.
Before Panic went on, there was a lovely surprise. Dashboard called The Cab and Plain White T's to the stage and they all performed Pink's "So What". Lindsey and I collectively shit a brick and lost our voices all over again. It made me extremely happy :)
Finally, Panic at the Disco performed. They're one of my favourite bands, despite their total change in direction on their last album. I didn't enjoy "Pretty. Odd." too much because it seemed that it was way over produced. Though the songs and lyrics were great, it seemed that there was almost too much noise. I kind of go along the lines of less is more when it comes to musical depth(Forget Cassettes have three instruments and somehow I can listen to the same song on repeat for an hour and still appreciate it for something different), and all the orchestral scores made songs that should have been great just seem meh(I'm looking at you, "Jolly Green Gentleman"!). But watching them live with just guitar, bass, drums and an occasional piano made me realize just how great they are and how much I want them to release an accoustic album. They played their new songs, their old songs and a cover of "Shout"(You know you make me want to...). They were deffinatly the highlite of the concert and the reason my voice has been gravely all week.
A bunch of other stuff happened. Got a speeding ticket, met a fun chica, played the new Clue, got Panic's autographs, watched a homeless person attack said chica and learned how to kill a man with my car keys from Panic's body guard, Zach.
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