tinnitus photography

i gotta write my review of the show tonight, but it was a great one...definitely go see him on this tour.

but are they REAL FANS?

autumnteeth, i think you are over-thinking things...spin the clock back 20 years ago and a band the profile of Wilco would easily be playing arenas. the fact that they are playing ~2-3K theaters means that tickets are in more demand. and do you think 'real fans' never buy off stubhub or ebay or the like? how did you get to that conclusion? maybe they got shutout like everyone else, and wanted to go to the show regardless. maybe the true answer is to do a dutch auction on ebay for every single seat. then the market would decide. but i'm guessing the average price would be a lot more

it lengthens their tour 2-3x...so i doubt it'll happen. sure, there've been residencies by bands before, but not extensive tours built around multi-date stops at each city. just booking it would be a nightmare in terms of avoiding conflicts w/ other band tours.

maybe they should work "Devil Went Down To Georgia" or "Flirtin' WIth Disaster" into their live shows.

Steve Malkmus + Holy Sons. rather great show!

well here are the stats from Boston in terms of songs played from LPs: 1 The Whole Love (7) 2 A Ghost Is Born (3) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (3) 4 Being There (2) Wilco (The Album) (2) 6 A.M. (1) Sky Blue Sky (1) Summerteeth (1)

looks like leftovers from the Animal Collective Crack Box set.

1.a. Who is your favorite American band/solo act/ensemble/dance troupe/whatever label applies that is currently "active" (meaning - still making records or still touring)? Sonic Youth 2. Who are in your top 10 all time? Sonic Youth X Dinosaur Jr Sun City Girls Stooges Wilco Guided By Voices Pavement Tar Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 3. In your top 10 all time, all world list, how many are American? (I've discovered my tastes definitely lean towards England). sorry,i missed that question 2 wasn't just isolated to US bands, which is how i answered it, top 10 non-US bands would inc

i haven't had time to open the plastic wrap yet...maybe tonight.

nice shots. this one and the Nels one leaning back w/ the light mostly on his face are my faves. btw for clarification, Fighting Tinnitus is not a subsidiary of tinnitus photography i am kinda bummed to hear that shooters were staged at the wings of the stage edge...had i known that, i would have put in for the show. I did ask the PR rep for shooting restriction clarifications but never heard back, unfortunately. what was the general vibe like on the floor? were people standing much of the time? the balcony was reserved...people didn't stand until the encore, and even then it was not a

sorry for getting so close to the Sex Nap/lawyer bickering, but I guess i interpreted this the wrong way agreed w/ the other post, that curfew is mostly influenced by stage hand/labor unions and OT...and for Comcast/BofA, possibly noise ordinances due to the open nature of the venue. maybe, but i don't know...i busted my ass to fight through Boston traffic, park, and get to the venue in time so we could get a wrist band before 6:15 and then eat a leisurely dinner somewhere w/ our tickets in our pockets. moving this up 45 min would have made that plan untenable, and i didn't feel li

the 11PM curfew really has nothing to do w/ Emerson. other theatres/outside venues have this too (Orpheum, Wilbur, Comcast, Bank of America, etc).

i thought it was fine, but i was in the 5th row of the balcony.

what an incredible opening song last night...sorry if that's a spoiler (though it seemed an obvious choice to me).

i didn't bother putting in for the show, since the restrictions at that venue are pretty ridiculous. they make you shoot from one spot, either at the back of the building or far on one wing, and then you have to leave and stow your gear. i shot there once (The Pixies) and won't do it again...i missed 4 songs in the interim of dropping my gear at my car and getting back to my seat. and i had to rent a long lens as well. though the lights were pretty damned good. i kinda wished i had a camera from where i was sitting (center balcony, 1st row).

picked up my copy of the LP tonight. wanted to get a poster for a friend but it was sold out after the show.

Handshake Drugs > Impossible Germany was the killer. great show.

Vivian Girls.

hopefully i get approved for this show in Boston this saturday. the show i caught @ House of Blues two years ago was a lot of fun.

me. please keep up on the more salient posts in this thread.

i've heard Howe Gelb referred to as a poet, but never a polemicist.

Howe Gelb's contribution: http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/howe-gelb-remembers-sept-11-in-nyc-of-time

here i come again and i'm bringing my wife

i talked w/ John after the Orpheum show last year..he and Pat came into bar we were at (Silvertone) after the show. very pleasant. I also talked w/ Jeff briefly this year when i ran into him and his sons @ the Moog exhibit at SSF. thanked him for inviting Rick Bishop last year as well as for getting two SSFs off the ground, and he was cordial.