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Post by essbee on Jan 17, 2009 15:13:25 GMT -5
Shit, those mittens are awesome. **blushes** |
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Post by misterselby on Jan 17, 2009 15:18:13 GMT -5
I gotta admit that O'Callaghan's was a bad call on my part. The thing about Irish Cop bars is that they're either a really nice place to relax with a beer or they're wood-panelled swillholes featuring angry drunks and waitress-gropers and worse-than-institutional quality pub grub. O'Callaghan's is the latter. Even the grilled cheese sammiches were wal-mart level mediocre. How the fuck do you fuck up a grilled cheese sammich? Regardless, it was nice to meet a lot of you peoples.
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Post by Evan on Jan 17, 2009 15:34:06 GMT -5
Tom Morrello drove me mad. One of the most unabashedly awful sets I have seen in years. It was so bad I was awestruck. Really? I had a great time. I thought Tom did pretty well, though he definitely proved that though he's a brilliant sideman, he's a mediocre frontman. The songs, for the most part, grooved like none other, that Streetsweeper song got me psyched beyond all reason, and he really didn't wax political between songs as much as I was expecting--just his little soapbox bit before "Guerrilla Radio" and before "This Land Is Your Land." He was a bit full of himself, but c'mon...it's fucking Tom Morello. |
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 17, 2009 16:58:25 GMT -5
Oh, and how was John Cusack?
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Post by essbee on Jan 17, 2009 17:06:35 GMT -5
Oh, and how was John Cusack? Elsewhere or invisible. |
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 17, 2009 17:08:06 GMT -5
Or hiding.  |
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Post by essbee on Jan 17, 2009 17:10:09 GMT -5
Or hiding. Or hiding. |
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Post by selbyandgriggs on Jan 17, 2009 20:45:54 GMT -5
Actually I blew John in the bathroom. Forgot to mention that.
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Post by blackbeard on Jan 17, 2009 23:32:00 GMT -5
Actually I blew John in the bathroom. Forgot to mention that. Man, I really need to get to be famous. No shizz. Sounds like the motherfuckin' life, to me. |
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 18, 2009 1:54:51 GMT -5
Actually I blew John in the bathroom. Forgot to mention that. Oh, yeah? What else has he had lifted? |
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Post by broadway on Jan 18, 2009 2:08:20 GMT -5
A few things here:
Relatively angry that I am not currently there in Chicago watching things transpire at the Franz show.
It has been brought to my attention that I become more prone to streaks of vulgarity when sharing company with children, as (perhaps?) displayed in the case of the aquarium. For those present, is this true? And, if so, is this a problem? Not that I will take even the most tiny of steps to change it if it is, because fuck you, but still I am curious.
Also, I only ate 2 pancakes. I would have eaten more, but I lost focus.
Also it was very nice to see CT again, and to meet people for the first time too.
I should also thank you all again for taking time and energy to come along on that outing and allowing me to indulge in this shark thing I have. I think it is pretty clear that the Jaws intro during the THS set was done for me.
When I FINALLY got home, near death and abused by the approach antics of an absolutely drunken amateur aviator, the weather was a balmy 43, which felt tropical after the experience of waiting for the train post-brunch. So, thank you Chicago for putting things in perspective for me.
*edited to add this final tidbit*
I have become increasingly certain that I was NOT being paranoid at the bar pre-show. In retrospect, I was almost certainly being targeted by members of the El Salvadorian criminal underworld. Not entirely sure why, but I have clearly committed some sort of serious sin in the eyes of MS13. I am pretty sure that if it was not for the abundant amount of witnesses present, I would be bleeding slowly from multiple awl wounds in the trunk of a nondescript American car of a recent vintage.
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Post by essbee on Jan 18, 2009 16:20:56 GMT -5
Wow. I'm far more interested in singing "This Land Is Your Land" when Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen invite me than when Tom Morello harangues me.
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Post by broadway on Jan 18, 2009 16:28:42 GMT -5
Wow. I'm far more interested in singing "This Land Is Your Land" when Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen invite me than when Tom Morello harangues me. Agreed. By the time he was done, I was feeling somewhat browbeaten by Old Tom. I am also not terribly into seeing people play guitar with their teeth, for whatever reason. |
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Post by misterselby on Jan 18, 2009 16:53:23 GMT -5
Wow. I'm far more interested in singing "This Land Is Your Land" when Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen invite me than when Tom Morello harangues me. Agreed. By the time he was done, I was feeling somewhat browbeaten by Old Tom. I am also not terribly into seeing people play guitar with their teeth, for whatever reason. Like I was saying, the only way to redeem the playing-guitar-with-yer-teeth episode would have been if Yngwie Fucking Malmsteen had joined him on stage for a proper guitars-played-by-teeth duel. Now that would've been awesome. |
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Post by broadway on Jan 18, 2009 17:07:57 GMT -5
Agreed. By the time he was done, I was feeling somewhat browbeaten by Old Tom. I am also not terribly into seeing people play guitar with their teeth, for whatever reason. Like I was saying, the only way to redeem the playing-guitar-with-yer-teeth episode would have been if Yngwie Fucking Malmsteen had joined him on stage for a proper guitars-played-by-teeth duel. Now that would've been awesome. This is dead on accurate. If Yngwie had made an appearance, it would clearly have been one for the books. I really did like the drunken announcer guy calling them "Tom Morrello AND The Night Watchman AND The Freedom Fighter Orchestra." That made me chuckle. I should also say that I am pretty turned off by any band that wears uniforms, with some exceptions (the Freedom Fighter Orchestra is NOT such an exception). |
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Post by selbyandgriggs on Jan 18, 2009 17:08:18 GMT -5
While Tom may have been twisting our arm a bit too harshly, and the music maybe wasn't what I was hoping for (Damn, where are the Loved Ones when I need them?) but anyone uttering the words "Close Guantanamo" warms my heart.
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Post by essbee on Jan 18, 2009 17:16:41 GMT -5
Did this teeth-playing business happen when I was on recon?
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Post by kim on Jan 20, 2009 19:49:21 GMT -5
I should also say that I am pretty turned off by any band that wears uniforms, with some exceptions (the Freedom Fighter Orchestra is NOT such an exception). What bugged me about the Freedom Fighter Orchestra is that one guy looked like Dave Grohl, another like Taylor Hawkins, and I'm sure that the third guy probably looked like one of the anonymous Foo Fighters that nobody cares about. |
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Post by Evan on Jan 20, 2009 20:37:25 GMT -5
The teeth-playing thing was a forgivable transgression, as far as I was concerned--he's a showman, and that's a flashy thing to do. Yngwie Malmsteen appearing, however, would have been utterly unforgivable. I may have left had that occurred.
And yes, the bassist from the Freedom Fighter Orchestra looked exactly like Dave Grohl. It was weird. The guitarist had long blond hair, but otherwise didn't look too much like Taylor Hawkins...in fact, he looked more bored than anything. The drummer was wearing shorts, which made me like him. The uniforms were pretentious but predictable, the inverted American flag was pretentious but predictable, his banter with the crowd was pretty ill-advised, but all the same, I was impressed by the music. Not what I was necessarily in the mood for at a Hold Steady show, but great fun for what it was.
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Post by Rhinovirus on Jan 21, 2009 10:04:38 GMT -5
Hah I was endlessly amused with "the Freedom Fighter Orchestra" The blonde guy looked like a child that got forced to be on stage by his parents. I could almost picture a middle aged couple with a camcorder waving from the back. The Dave Grohl look alike to me looked alot more like Geof from "Ace of Cakes", that is untill he sung then he busted that wide Grohl mouth. I swear the drummer picked his nose.
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