This thread made me realize I’ve not been to any show since before the pandemic. There certainly have been bands I like who played near me, though. But of course I didn’t find out about that until a week or two AFTER they played, as usual.
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We will be waiting for some videos
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Oooooo, it was so much fun, they were hanging around for the previous bands (which all rocked) and Amelia even played a Talulah Gosh song with My Light Shines for You.
I’ll take a look at the veganism thread, I had some really good french fries with salsa acevichada on top in between acts.
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I can try to explain it! It was intended to encourage the audience to be active participants in the performance with ways to engage through multiple forms of media. There was a large sheet in the middle of the space where people were encouraged to draw with highlighters and neon sharpies, and we projected Jeff Minter’s Colourspace (an early light synthesizer) on the sheet that people could control. And we had about five instruments that we encouraged people to play, and about a dozen more instruments came out of the woodwork almost immediately as we got going! Lol
Everyone was encouraged to kind of bounce around between areas, listen to each other and absorb. It was a lot of fun, and I definitely want to keep performing. I think each performance is going to be different but have that consistent through-line of intentions.
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i am immensely jealous of this
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The Caribou show was insanely good :). $35 to see one of my favorite artists from the third row (general admin)
He played a similar setlist to this video (same but with two more songs tonight). “Sun” was a big standout as were “Climbing” and “Never Come Back”
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I went to a really great show last night. Through one of my various notification tendrils I saw that Floral was coming to my town. They’re one of those bands that are extremely up my specific alley: noodly guitar, busy drums, vocals optional. And let me tell you, it was a really good night for that kind of music at this show. All four bands were a different flavor of that music sphere, so it felt like a birthday party I threw for myself. And since I went in only knowing one of the bands, now I’ve got 3 new ones to dig into. Honestly, my favorite way to get into a band is to have not heard of them and have them blow my mind opening for someone else. Here’s a sampler track from each band in show order:
Young Animals
Wise Disguise
Rob Ford Explorer
Floral
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So looking back I have not purchased any live music tickets since moving back from Japan to America in 2010. That’s a shame for sure. I do remember some good shows back then in Japan, Daft Punk at Makuhari Messe, Kishidan at the Budokan, Sambomaster at a small local live place in Mito.
And I qualify that it’s been years since I bought a ticket just because I remember when live music was something I actively sought out and enjoyed regularly. I have seen some live shows, just not on purpose. I’ve been to Ohana Fest the past few years as my parents have been kind enough to invite me. This year I really liked Alanis Morissette, it was the perfect festival act that I would never have sought out on my own but still remembered nearly every song she played. She still has it too for sure! Pearl Jam was the closing act and they are still my favorite band.
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i’m the same. if someone tells me “this band are really good” and i’m likely to see them in the near future, i purposefully don’t check them out until i’ve seen them live. i have this weird thing where i love live music even if they’re playing the kind of stuff i would never listen to at home. i don’t know why. might be the idea that any amount of time and a little bit of expertise can make a pro sounding record of dull songs but if you’re playing those same songs in the room with me and pulling it off, i’m much more forgiving? who knows.
i see and enjoy bands like the ones you posted all the time and have a good time, appreciate their skills etc., but it’s not the kind of thing that comes anywhere near my hifi at home haha
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I went to see the Oregon Symphony about a month ago. Don’t worry it was nerd stuff.
The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall is an old vaudeville theater and movie hall. From like, when movies were in big halls 100 years ago. It was purchased and renovated in the mid-80s and I think it’s now more or less “safe” as any historical building can be.
I used to play trumpet in various youth symphonies as a kid and the Schnitz was our home concert venue. I’ve got a lot of attachment to it though ironically I have spent more time back stage than in the house. The seat geometry is 100 years old and I don’t fit in them very well!
As someone who has been to a lot of symphonies, I’ve never been to one of the touring FF productions so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, especially from the video component.
The video was “good actually” which seems blindingly obvious in retrospect to me. You go see NIN and they’ve got a visual aspect to their show. Lots of concerts have a visual aspect to the show!
The other thing that I personally found delightful from a technical systems standpoint is the conductor has a feed of the screen that also is overlaid with video cues - it seemed like page turns for the paper score he was using and a few other timing elements were superimposed as if they were recording a soundtrack for a film; they were doing that, just live.
And obviously the symphony was fantastic. The acoustics at the Schnitz are pretty optimized for this use case, and the musicians are all incredible.
I’ve spent much of my life thinking about what it means to enjoy orchestral music, and this is definitely the way to go. Music that you have an emotional attachment to, performed incredibly well, with a neat visual element that I got to share with my friends and my older kids. It was just a wonderful outing.
But before you ask, no, I didn’t buy the $50 LED buster sword souvenir.
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Oh yeah, totally. I had a similar experience where my buddy had an extra ticket to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I’d been meaning to check them out since they’ve become popular with people whose taste kind of overlaps with mine. So I went in blind and had a real good time, but now that I get what their whole deal is I probably won’t listen to them on my own time.
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I’m gonna see Floral tomorrow in Brooklyn :) can never tell how many of us there are out there, but it seems hard to convince people to like twinkly stuff, either they love it immediately or don’t
In a similar vein, the last concert I went to was in Shinjuku a week ago - saw some other noodly guitar bands, specifically Soccer. and Stegosauro
May be the only time I ever get to see live music in Japan, but it was nice to see that it was just like anywhere else - not a lot of people, but the people who did show up had a lot of heart. My only regret was not having enough yen to buy a T shirt
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Oh heck yeah! Tell the drummer from Rob Ford Explorer the guy in the Parallax II shirt who bought that blue shirt says hi (lol, don’t actually do that). That Shinjuku show sounds so cool. I hope if I ever visit Japan that I can find a little show to go to. Stegosauro has been on my list to check out and I’ll add soccer. to it now too.
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