2015 Concert Thread

[Tobias]

rusty

[michigancat]

skipping work tomorrow to go to hardly strictly bluegrass. I really only wanna see Jessica Pratt, The Felice Brothers, and maybe The Mavericks. I'll probably bail before Connor Oberst. (sorry steve dave).

Anyway, it's a nice free festival. Kind of crazy how good it is, really.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

skipping work tomorrow to go to hardly strictly bluegrass. I really only wanna see Jessica Pratt, The Felice Brothers, and maybe The Mavericks. I'll probably bail before Connor Oberst. (sorry steve dave).

Anyway, it's a nice free festival. Kind of crazy how good it is, really.

Sounds awful. Have fun.

[michigancat]

skipping work tomorrow to go to hardly strictly bluegrass. I really only wanna see Jessica Pratt, The Felice Brothers, and maybe The Mavericks. I'll probably bail before Connor Oberst. (sorry steve dave).

Anyway, it's a nice free festival. Kind of crazy how good it is, really.

Sounds awful. Have fun.

[Tobias]

you're giving him way too much credit by giving him a second 'n'

[michigancat]

you're giving him way too much credit by giving him a second 'n'

Well aren't you the Bright Eyes aficianado.

[Tobias]

it was a soccer x-post from last night

[AbeFroman]

Me and sunny_cat enjoyed Vince Staples on Tuesday night. He was very good and pretty damn funny with the crowd. Got everyone to chant eff the police then made fun of all the white college kids for being mad at the police. There was cake at the merch booth.

[Asteriskhead]

Me and sunny_cat enjoyed Vince Staples on Tuesday night. He was very good and pretty damn funny with the crowd. Got everyone to chant eff the police then made fun of all the white college kids for being mad at the police. There was cake at the merch booth.

Can you elaborate? It sounds interesting.

[AbeFroman]

Basically he started a "eff the police" because some of his songs have to do with cops. Then started asking people in the front row why they hated the police and passing around the mic. Of course they all choked up and couldn't give a reason, one guy finally said he hated the police because he likes to smoke weed. Then he questioned them why smoking weed would make you "hate" the police and implied it wasn't a good enough reason. Then some guy in the back yelled out "because they are killing people!" and Vince agreed that was a good reason to say "eff the police". Then Vince talked about how these days he only has parking tickets and no beef with the police where he lives now, unlike his drug dealing days. It was almost like watching a comedian do crowd work.

[Shooter Jones]

skipping work tomorrow to go to hardly strictly bluegrass. I really only wanna see Jessica Pratt, The Felice Brothers, and maybe The Mavericks. I'll probably bail before Connor Oberst. (sorry steve dave).

Anyway, it's a nice free festival. Kind of crazy how good it is, really.

If you happen to watch Kensrue, post about it, please. I've always been curious about his live performances.

[pissclams]

selena gomez just announced her 2016 tour stops- for those gomez heads out there, she'll be in kc on 7/1/16.  she gave us a good stop too, it's a friday night.
i'm hoping to see her KC show on the 1st, and her LA show on the 8th at staples.   gomez twice in 8 days, this is the crap that they write books about

[michigancat]

skipping work tomorrow to go to hardly strictly bluegrass. I really only wanna see Jessica Pratt, The Felice Brothers, and maybe The Mavericks. I'll probably bail before Connor Oberst. (sorry steve dave).

Anyway, it's a nice free festival. Kind of crazy how good it is, really.

If you happen to watch Kensrue, post about it, please. I've always been curious about his live performances.

Didn't see him, just saw Jessica Pratt, Felice, and mrs. saw Punch Bros were there and we had to go see that. It was all very nice and a lovely day in a lovely setting.

[pissclams]

this will be a great show-  http://www.hbo.com/u2-innocence-experience-live-in-paris/index.html

[AbeFroman]

Chance the Rapper is a hell of a performer. What a fun show. Between him and Kendrick, more rappers should take note and have bad ass live bands.

[michigancat]

Chance the Rapper is a hell of a performer. What a fun show. Between him and Kendrick, more rappers should take note and have bad ass live bands.

I couldn't get Kendrick tickets.

saw a good review. Although I have seen some amazing shows with DJamer's and it's really hard to get a kickass live band. I've seen several rappers with extremely bland (but talented) backing bands and would probably be just as good or better with a DJamer.

[pissclams]

speaking of which, did you guys hear that technics is going to start selling 1200's again?

[michigancat]

Also this is definitely bay area sensitivity kicking in but I kind of think subtle racism is showing when people want and/or praise live bands in hip-hop. (I've been guilty of it).

[DQ12]

super jealous you saw the felice bros, although i wasn't really in love with their latest album.  frankie's gun is one of my favorite songs ever.

[star seed 7]

Also this is definitely bay area sensitivity kicking in but I kind of think subtle racism is showing when people want and/or praise live bands in hip-hop. (I've been guilty of it).

Can you flesh this out a little?

I've never seen a rap group with a band live, but on tv it almost always is worse than the album.

[michigancat]

Also this is definitely bay area sensitivity kicking in but I kind of think subtle racism is showing when people want and/or praise live bands in hip-hop. (I've been guilty of it).

Can you flesh this out a little?

I've never seen a rap group with a band live, but on tv it almost always is worse than the album.

It's mostly been marinating in my head and this is the first time I've put it into words. Like the live band panders to white audiences because hip-hop performances with a DJamer - basically entirely created by blacks - aren't good enough for whites. It's not "real music" or a "real performance" in their eyes or something.

Does that make sense at all?

[star seed 7]

I can see your train of thought, but is it kind of subtle racism that you equate DJamer = black and band = white?

[michigancat]

I can see your train of thought, but is it kind of subtle racism that you equate DJamer = black and band = white?

maybe, but black crowds generally don't give two shits whether or not there's a band. They accept hip-hop artists for what they are. White people want to see a band up there playin' some drums or something.

[star seed 7]

White people are stupid then

[michigancat]

And i just want to point out I wasn't thinking that was what 8man was saying. Chance is doing something completely different from traditional anything and isn't pandering to anyone IMO.