Concert Central

Blah and Blah who are friends with Blah who is Blah’s TA, thought they were amazing at the party, she plays violin/guitar, he plays mandolin/guitar/etc, but in formal setting they were disappointing, flat and muted, average vocals, nice interesting people though, maybe just a start-up phase, old-timey bluegrassy bluesy stuff

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afro-bob, beautiful body, Zen clothes/attitude/presence, his participation in our conversation consisted of “cool” and “what a trip,” discounted him until he sang and his voice was a little rougher than the average Texans and he finally had some intensity (stared at me), was interested when found out he’s from Big Sur—of course of course, [...]

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actually liked him better solo, nice mournful voice, was pooh-poohing his guitar skills until he played song “Thoughts on the End of Winter” which was the most interesting fantastic guitar I’d ever seen, he’s very insincere and loving being the starving artist but was unfortunately recently voted to be assisted by the AMF, best part [...]

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surprised to see them because name had caught my attention for months, standard good ol’ boys’ country, loyal to Texas/UT/bluebonnets, best part was when old stoddering announcer kept calling then The Kings of the Texas Motel 6 (much to their dismay)

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Seattle, WA—suspectly straight-looking band but for the heroin-strung lead, excellent but may have been biased what with the hype about it all day and what esp with them being a band of my time, MusicGod informed that they were the harbringers of all our other bands (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc.), same old hard rock but [...]

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Raleigh, NC—just good and MyFirstLove told me they are “Black Sabbath influenced” as was every good band this year

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Auburn, AL—the group that I LOVED, guitarist and drummer, kind of a cheerful hard Southern rock, didn’t matter, drummer was so freaking eccentric and endearing, would stand on drumset and spout politics simple and pure to the point of chills for me, wore blindfold during one song, music would stop suddenly all dramatic like and [...]

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(Hoboken, NJ)—disintegration complete, first song very political and very interesting, but like mood the music disintegrated into wavery flowery pop with voices understated to the point that imminent death for the vocalist was possible, the ultimate cooler-than-thou band, I tried to understand because must be something behind the huge crowd/huge following, would lapse into hard [...]

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same pop crap as record

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Madison, WI—just about the best melodic hard rock I heard but lead singer’s voice was ridiculously intolerable, a growl/scream for the duration, all pot reference band but wouldn’t know it for the music

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