Cake!
First concert ever attended: Dave Matthews Band
Concert I hate admitting that I enjoyed: Garth Brooks
Concert worth going to despite sub-par seats: U2
Most fun concert ever attended: Barenaked Ladies
Concert I got burned at: Aerosmith
Most musically enthralling how does she do that concert: Imogen Heap
Best concert attended for the over 50 crowd: Neil Diamond
Concert I almost got trampled at: Good Charlotte
Concert I felt like I did not belong at because of who else was there: Evanescence
Best singalong with the lyrics concert: Relient K
and now...
Most surreal and random concert ever attended: CAKE!
Me, Jon, Josh, Nick, James, Lindy, Matt, and Steve went to Sewell NJ to see Cake last night. Before we left, I looked up the bands that were touring for them.
They were as follows (in order of most sucky to least sucky):
Agent Ribbons
Oakley Hall
King City
Brazilian Girls
Agent Ribbons is like a two girl folksy type band. Suck.
Oakley Hall I did not get to see, but Agent Ribbons was so bad, I have to assume that they were better than them.
King City was cool and random... they are sort of a jam band / latin influenced / vaudeville-ish in sound. Every song they played naturally invoked jazz hands and thoughts of charlie chaplan silent movies where he is running around quickly like a penguin. Right. They actually were pretty enjoyable and upbeat, but so utterly strange.
And then we come to the Brazilian Girls... who are 3 guys and 1 girl.... and German. They were electronica influenced and very, um, Eurpoean. The lead singer chick invited anyone who wanted to to come up on stage and take their clothes off and dance. This will strike you as even stranger when I tell you what the Commerce Bank Arts Centre is actually like. Anyway, two guys ran up on stage and began stripping, but they were kicked off by a bouncer dude. However, for their last song, the singer convinced the bouncers to lay off, and lots of people got on stage to dance.
My favorite dancers:
12 yr old blonde girl ~ she was getting her groove on in the way only an awkward pre-teen can
12 yr old blonde girl's mom ~ knee high flesh colored boots, a short skirt, and a looooooooooong jacket (na na na na na naaaa na na na na naaaaa na)
large chick ~ obviously enjoying herself so much that she neglected to see her shirt creeping north
napoleon dynamite wannabe ~ long sideburns, fro-ed out curly hair, short, and was dancing a cross between napoleon dynamite and Violet from a Charlie Brown Christmas
old dude ~ I am guessing late 60s, had the ex-hippie flare complete with a scraggly grizzled grey beard
midget ~ One of the shorter ones I have seen, was totally boogie-ing down with old dude
Yes folks, that was worth the price of admission.
What can I say, Cake brings people together!
So anyway, about this "Commerce Bank Arts Centre". Let me just tell you that it is a high school. Washington Township High School in NJ.... I mean, its a huge place and what not... and the cushy seats came in handy for snoozing before Cake came on.... but it was utterly bizarre. It sort of felt high school dance ish. The entrance was decorated with red and green construction paper links. They were selling snacks for $1 each. There were kids and parents there and freaks of nature. It was very eclectic and strange and enjoyable, actually.
The Cake concert itself was great. They played lots of songs I know, and I appreciated that they do not use a set list. I had no idea, however, that they are so "anti-establishment". They also gave away some trees during the concert. Yeah, trees. Shrug.
They played Opera Singer, Guitar, Short Skirt / Long Jacket, I Want To Love You Madly, and some other songs I cannot remember the names of... but I was pleased. It was really good show, and we had a lot of fun. Plus I got a t shirt.
Like most things in life, if a t shirt is available for purchase or free, I am all over it.
Today marks the first recording date of Reverb... wish us luck... especially given that 4 of us were at the concert last night, 2 of us were at PSU for the Penns concert, and we just lost a member. Woot. Should be awesome. :)
Concert I hate admitting that I enjoyed: Garth Brooks
Concert worth going to despite sub-par seats: U2
Most fun concert ever attended: Barenaked Ladies
Concert I got burned at: Aerosmith
Most musically enthralling how does she do that concert: Imogen Heap
Best concert attended for the over 50 crowd: Neil Diamond
Concert I almost got trampled at: Good Charlotte
Concert I felt like I did not belong at because of who else was there: Evanescence
Best singalong with the lyrics concert: Relient K
and now...
Most surreal and random concert ever attended: CAKE!
Me, Jon, Josh, Nick, James, Lindy, Matt, and Steve went to Sewell NJ to see Cake last night. Before we left, I looked up the bands that were touring for them.
They were as follows (in order of most sucky to least sucky):
Agent Ribbons
Oakley Hall
King City
Brazilian Girls
Agent Ribbons is like a two girl folksy type band. Suck.
Oakley Hall I did not get to see, but Agent Ribbons was so bad, I have to assume that they were better than them.
King City was cool and random... they are sort of a jam band / latin influenced / vaudeville-ish in sound. Every song they played naturally invoked jazz hands and thoughts of charlie chaplan silent movies where he is running around quickly like a penguin. Right. They actually were pretty enjoyable and upbeat, but so utterly strange.
And then we come to the Brazilian Girls... who are 3 guys and 1 girl.... and German. They were electronica influenced and very, um, Eurpoean. The lead singer chick invited anyone who wanted to to come up on stage and take their clothes off and dance. This will strike you as even stranger when I tell you what the Commerce Bank Arts Centre is actually like. Anyway, two guys ran up on stage and began stripping, but they were kicked off by a bouncer dude. However, for their last song, the singer convinced the bouncers to lay off, and lots of people got on stage to dance.
My favorite dancers:
12 yr old blonde girl ~ she was getting her groove on in the way only an awkward pre-teen can
12 yr old blonde girl's mom ~ knee high flesh colored boots, a short skirt, and a looooooooooong jacket (na na na na na naaaa na na na na naaaaa na)
large chick ~ obviously enjoying herself so much that she neglected to see her shirt creeping north
napoleon dynamite wannabe ~ long sideburns, fro-ed out curly hair, short, and was dancing a cross between napoleon dynamite and Violet from a Charlie Brown Christmas
old dude ~ I am guessing late 60s, had the ex-hippie flare complete with a scraggly grizzled grey beard
midget ~ One of the shorter ones I have seen, was totally boogie-ing down with old dude
Yes folks, that was worth the price of admission.
What can I say, Cake brings people together!
So anyway, about this "Commerce Bank Arts Centre". Let me just tell you that it is a high school. Washington Township High School in NJ.... I mean, its a huge place and what not... and the cushy seats came in handy for snoozing before Cake came on.... but it was utterly bizarre. It sort of felt high school dance ish. The entrance was decorated with red and green construction paper links. They were selling snacks for $1 each. There were kids and parents there and freaks of nature. It was very eclectic and strange and enjoyable, actually.
The Cake concert itself was great. They played lots of songs I know, and I appreciated that they do not use a set list. I had no idea, however, that they are so "anti-establishment". They also gave away some trees during the concert. Yeah, trees. Shrug.
They played Opera Singer, Guitar, Short Skirt / Long Jacket, I Want To Love You Madly, and some other songs I cannot remember the names of... but I was pleased. It was really good show, and we had a lot of fun. Plus I got a t shirt.
Like most things in life, if a t shirt is available for purchase or free, I am all over it.
Today marks the first recording date of Reverb... wish us luck... especially given that 4 of us were at the concert last night, 2 of us were at PSU for the Penns concert, and we just lost a member. Woot. Should be awesome. :)
posted by FireWithin at 10:26 AM
2 Comments:
WOW, well said. Your words brought back last night like it just happened. We've been to many concerts from Munich to the Long Beach Arena, but this well, a high school talent show, or what? Everything from a throw back from the Stone Poneys (Oakley Hall) to some backstreet techno club group in Germany (B. Girls). King City, were interesting although getting off on themselves after a long while. But yeah, over all it was a trip.
Perfect description of dancers. Very funny!
Cake was great, especially the trumpet player but they lied, by the way. Doesn't everyone know that you can look up the set list from the previous concert? The night before, 12/7, they were in Boston. Almost identical setlist except for them spacing out and substituting a milked down version of classic Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" for "The Distance", damn them. I've seen Black Sabbath at their peak and a few times along their way, so that was a sour note for Cake to end on. What did we expect from a high school dance?
The best of luck with Reverb.
Yeah, I was totally bummed about War Pigs... NOT a way to end a show, I was not pleased with that. I mean, sure, they are all anti- "the man", but that does not mean you shouldn't appease your fans with The Distance. Who doesn't love that song?!
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