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Rock 'n' roll doesn't mind
Jan. 31st, 2008 11:47 amMan. I don't get hung up on certain concert tours very often, but I have to say that I would have loved to have seen Ian Dury and Elvis Costello (!!!) tour together in '77. I love Dury. He's got this bumpy, raw, uncut sound to everything that he sings. It's honest. It's guttural. It's "dark pub at midnight with a glass of room temperature Bass" music. And so diverse. "Sweet Gene Vincent", for instance, starts off as a sort of ballad and then explodes into a rockabilly riff. And of course, the sheer genius of "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" -- pfft! What can you say?
'Also would have liked to have been there for The Who's concert at the University of Leeds. Todd bought me an original Live At Leeds LP for Christmas (with the butterfly-style cover that opens up like a menu, the album sitting crisply in its sleeve) with that great note from Townshend about the sound quality (you have a hard time during a couple of songs because of the static -- sadly removed from all the modern re-recordings; I think it gives the album a great feel.) I'd love to be able to convert the whole album for my iPod (which should be coming back to me any day now.)
I had a chance to see The Who at OSU back in '06, but it fell on the Monday of finals week. Plus, I heard Endless Wire wasn't that impressive and now that it's only Daltry and Townshend -- each of them not poor performers in their own right, certainly -- there's really little payoff in being able to go, other than to say "Yeah, I saw The Who in concert." I would have liked to have been able to hear a live version of "Baba O'Riley", though.
Side note: someone please tell Pete Townshend to stop writing operas.
Side note to an operatic sidenote: Hey! Bree Sharp's coming out with a new album this year! All right!
-- No, I did not write my Statement of Purpose letter last night. I had a crippling episode of self-doubt after I dropped a vacuum cleaner on my foot. Ow.
'Also would have liked to have been there for The Who's concert at the University of Leeds. Todd bought me an original Live At Leeds LP for Christmas (with the butterfly-style cover that opens up like a menu, the album sitting crisply in its sleeve) with that great note from Townshend about the sound quality (you have a hard time during a couple of songs because of the static -- sadly removed from all the modern re-recordings; I think it gives the album a great feel.) I'd love to be able to convert the whole album for my iPod (which should be coming back to me any day now.)
I had a chance to see The Who at OSU back in '06, but it fell on the Monday of finals week. Plus, I heard Endless Wire wasn't that impressive and now that it's only Daltry and Townshend -- each of them not poor performers in their own right, certainly -- there's really little payoff in being able to go, other than to say "Yeah, I saw The Who in concert." I would have liked to have been able to hear a live version of "Baba O'Riley", though.
Side note: someone please tell Pete Townshend to stop writing operas.
Side note to an operatic sidenote: Hey! Bree Sharp's coming out with a new album this year! All right!
-- No, I did not write my Statement of Purpose letter last night. I had a crippling episode of self-doubt after I dropped a vacuum cleaner on my foot. Ow.
