[sort of a crosspost from the Tour forum] The crowd at MSG was pretty weak but started to pick up during Pinkerton. It REALLY got cooking during Blue though; loved that everyone was locked in enough to scream even the backing parts on some songs, the World Has Turned in particular was rather chill-inducing. That should be a setlist staple. Ending the show on Only In Dreams is simultaneously as epic as humanly possible but somehow anticlimactic too. You're in such a dizzying euphoria and then you...just gotta leave. I feel like they coulda tacked an encore on. That's such a minor quibble though. Any time I get to see my favorite song of all time it is such a gift. The sound mix was awful for the first few songs. Totally blown out, vocals too low, Pat too loud, and all around way too sharp. It got fixed as the night went on but MSG is so dialed acoustically that something like this should never happen. Also, it is just funny as someone who has seen Phish 50-plus times at MSG alone: I got told to put out a joint and to stop dancing in the aisle by security on separate occasions. Sad!
I hope they got a director who is brave enough to allow Rivers’ weird little guy self to be fully on display on film.
Listening to the dusty gems vinyl for the first time, sounds really good, thrilled to have the four official bsides on record
finally listened to the SZNZ vinyl bonus tracks and to my complete lack of surprise these are better than most of the shit on SZNZ. Portia especially solos everything that's actually on Summer. this fucking band lmao
they're worth tracking down imo but also it's still relative to the overall quality of SZNZ which is... not high lmao
Also this article made me lol (the main band referenced is Weezer) Does this guy know he doesn’t have to go to album anniversary tours and can hold off until the next regular tour? lol
I do agree with some of the points made....I'm not a big fan of album play tours either, i'd much rather be surprised by the setlist....to me it comes off as a money grab and an unworthy one at that...besides for bands like Green Day and Weezer they play nearly all of their seminal albums at every show anyway...and let's not even account for Taking Back Sunday who has done TAYF for how many anniversaries now?
What I want is anniversary tours where bands cover albums from other bands on the bill. Sure, you've heard Hawthorne Heights do The Silence In Black and White, but what about them doing Full Collapse!?