Ahhh… it’s good to go to a rock concert with a real rock crowd.
I went to see Faith No More at the Hordern Pavilion (my favourite venue!) last night with James. The last time I saw them was 13 years ago at the same venue with Pete, Matt, Chris, (Spiro?) and some other 16/17 year olds.
Old.
I remember the concert in 1997 was really wild (might’ve been the first concert I crowd surfed at…?), and FNM have lost none of their rock. Neither have their fans.
It was the usual story down near the front where James and I were. Lots of guys mixed in with guys and their petite girlfriends taking up the space where you want the crowd to go crazy… I was ready for more disappointing crowd lameness… BUT! The lights went down. FNM played midnight cowboy (slow instrumental song) and built the anticipation. Then BOOM! First song, the crowd surged, the mosh pit went mental (pro. men-ull) and the girls and lady-boys came running out like squirrels from a bush fire.
It was great. No fear of treading on the precious and fragile, just free, crazy, uninhibited jumping, heading banging, and slamming! I was 17 again! Except now I’m bigger framed and 30kgs heavier, so the pit was not the intimidating “I might die here” place that I remembered.
I just let loose. It was great.
And at the end there was the nostalgic familiarity of being soaked with sweat and partially deaf. The sweat I can live with, but I do feel regret for not protecting my hearing better… I’ve come to realise that hearing is not only worth protecting just because you’ve got, but because I feel stupid when I have to ask people 3 times to repeat themselves or have my phone speaker set at 50 decibels above normal… next time.
I’d never heard of the support band “Eagles of Deathmetal” before but they put on a great show. I think they have the same drummer from Queens of the Stone Age… either way, they were much better than the Jesus Lizard who did support for the 97 show. If I remember correctly, their lead singer was wasted and he pulled out his old fella on stage…
The current car, which is a ute, that I drive for work is an older car that only has an AM radio, no money wasted on silly options like the FM band.
Anyway so on the masive 8-15min drive to and from work I get to listen to some AM gold and today they played a song!! Doesn’t happen often, and it surprised me, it was Ben Folds Five, which I thought would have only came out on CD so not sure how they were able to play it but good on them!!
This may come as no surprise to you guys who have listened to AM since before it was cool… but I didn’t know a) that they played songs, and b) that they’d play Ben Folds Five
Caleb’s (3 yrs old) favourite song at the moment is The Salmon Dance by The Chemical Brothers, whenever we hop in the car he always asks for the fish song to be put on.
I’m happy with this, much easier to listen to then play school songs or the like.
Him and his little brother really get into it too, pretty funny at times.
Some fairly amusing types in the UK have decided that they’re sick of X-Factor/Idol type records being number 1 in the charts over Christmas each year, so have started a campaign to make Rage Against the Machine’s song “Killing in the name” number 1 instead.
I’ve seen it on Twitter a fair bit, with quite a few famous types promoting it. I hope it works, I can’t stand all that bubble gum plastic music marketing crossover stuff.
(Even if I see the irony in a whole lot of people all chanting about “not doing what they tell me” at the same time…)
On another music related note, if you’re interested in hearing some great new tunes, you can go to this website:
This guy puts together a monthly ‘mix tape’ of new music by indie bands, and lets you download the MP3s from his site. A lot of the bands see it as free advertising and are quite keen to get themselves onto his ‘compilations’ each month. It’s apparently very good for your indie cred.
As seems to be the habit I’m about to write a few words on something I have barely used, but hey why bother waiting until you have a real understanding of something.
I installed the Genius feature on iTunes pretty much when it became available, not really thinking that I’d use it or knowing what it was but hey if Apple thinks I need it then chances are I need it.
So I’ve left it there and pretty much not touched it, until the other day when someone said to me ‘how cool is that Genius thing in iTunes’, to which I just awkwardly replied ‘yeah…’ thinking that the only thing it seemed good for was to try to get you to buy more music from them. But he was referring to the fact that you can choose one song and tell it to make it a playlist.
It then consults the great Apple database in the sky or whatever and pulls together these songs which it somehow thinks are songs you’d like to listen to based on that one song… and it seems to be right…
This is like choosing random on your whole library and seeing what songs are played and having that happiness that comes when a song that you forgot you owned, or haven’t thought to play in ages, comes on. But without (well mostly) having to listen to songs that are completely random in your library and you loaded on there because one day you might listen to them but you don’t really see that day coming…
It also means you can choose one song in a style that you feel like hearing and rather than having to think to pull a playlist together Apple does it for you.
Yesterday I was checking out the $10.00 CD tables at Fish Records in Newtown and came across “The Best of Limp Biscuit”… WHAT? Didn’t he only have one song? How can you have a “Best Of” with only one song…?
Which brings me to another point… the $10.00 tables were very disappointing at Fish yesterday… nothing.
Anyway, I called this post Linkin Biscuit because Fi always gets confused between Linkin Park and Limp Biscuit and it cracks me up.
