They Might Be Mighty
Jul. 21st, 2004 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaThe Longitudinal Line is an interesting space; I like it. DM wasn't kidding when he said it had "make-out nooks," though - there are these cushioned, half-curtained, very bed-like spaces in the smaller room. (Remember that party I described, a long time ago? This might be a good place to try holding a smaller version.) The larger room has a bar on each side, an interesting view of the Convention Center, and a reasonably large stage at one end of the room.
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bibulb and I went with wren_chan and moongoddess73. We ran into SNiCk and her spouse and child in line, and I promised to chase her down someday relatively soon, force money into her hand, and relieve her of a copy of the Lager Rhythms' latest. Once there, we ran into and had a pleasant conversation with briareos - it's been far too long since we've seen him (the Weird Al show, I think, since we saw him in person?), and we should find a way to fix that.
The opening "band" was one guy from Denton with an accordion and a floor cymbal. I was unimpressed; Spouse had a somewhat more favorable impression. However, he did a decent cover of "We Are the Champions," which means I can't totally dismiss him as useless.
TMBG themselves were on, as always. Apparently on this tour, they're writing a song for each new venue they play; this one's was cute and boppy. They did a few more songs from their most recent album than perhaps the crowd would have chosen, but the songs sound better live than they do on the album, so it wasn't a problem. Watching the crowd go completely bugfuck on "Particle Man" and "Birdhouse In Your Soul" was quite enjoyable. I went somewhere else during "Ana Ng" - I usually don't do that during a live performance, but the crowd energy and the energy that was just rolling off of Linnell totally pulled me completely underwater and into the song. They didn't do "Snail Shell" or "Istanbul (not Constantinople)," but they played a full show and two encores; I guess they just didn't have space in the set list.
The last time we saw them, Linnell seemed as if he were not quite feeling well; at least, he wasn't putting as much of himself into the show. This time, he was fully there and holding down his half of the stage admirably - which is a tough job, considering Flans is all over his part, all the time. ("Yeah, I think the early-onset Alzheimer's is tougher on me than the Tourette's is;" from when he tripped over a chord on the ending of one song.)
They two guys and one girl ahead of us - college-aged or just out of college - were going to town the whole show, dancing as hard as the Spouse or harder. It's nice to see that the younger folk have some taste in music, then. (I guess these are the fans who first heard them on Malcolm in the Middle and eventually said "hey, I wonder what else these guys have done?")
Anyway, great show.
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Game tomorrow, 7:30ish, here. Anyone not going to be able to make it (or will be way late), drop me an e-mail and let me know. Still time to jump in if anyone else wants to play . . .
bibulb and I went with wren_chan and moongoddess73. We ran into SNiCk and her spouse and child in line, and I promised to chase her down someday relatively soon, force money into her hand, and relieve her of a copy of the Lager Rhythms' latest. Once there, we ran into and had a pleasant conversation with briareos - it's been far too long since we've seen him (the Weird Al show, I think, since we saw him in person?), and we should find a way to fix that.The opening "band" was one guy from Denton with an accordion and a floor cymbal. I was unimpressed; Spouse had a somewhat more favorable impression. However, he did a decent cover of "We Are the Champions," which means I can't totally dismiss him as useless.
TMBG themselves were on, as always. Apparently on this tour, they're writing a song for each new venue they play; this one's was cute and boppy. They did a few more songs from their most recent album than perhaps the crowd would have chosen, but the songs sound better live than they do on the album, so it wasn't a problem. Watching the crowd go completely bugfuck on "Particle Man" and "Birdhouse In Your Soul" was quite enjoyable. I went somewhere else during "Ana Ng" - I usually don't do that during a live performance, but the crowd energy and the energy that was just rolling off of Linnell totally pulled me completely underwater and into the song. They didn't do "Snail Shell" or "Istanbul (not Constantinople)," but they played a full show and two encores; I guess they just didn't have space in the set list.
The last time we saw them, Linnell seemed as if he were not quite feeling well; at least, he wasn't putting as much of himself into the show. This time, he was fully there and holding down his half of the stage admirably - which is a tough job, considering Flans is all over his part, all the time. ("Yeah, I think the early-onset Alzheimer's is tougher on me than the Tourette's is;" from when he tripped over a chord on the ending of one song.)
They two guys and one girl ahead of us - college-aged or just out of college - were going to town the whole show, dancing as hard as the Spouse or harder. It's nice to see that the younger folk have some taste in music, then. (I guess these are the fans who first heard them on Malcolm in the Middle and eventually said "hey, I wonder what else these guys have done?")
Anyway, great show.
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Game tomorrow, 7:30ish, here. Anyone not going to be able to make it (or will be way late), drop me an e-mail and let me know. Still time to jump in if anyone else wants to play . . .
