Thomas aka KWentin
see how close we were? during the concert the guys went from the main stage right to the place where we were sitting.. and then played two songs unplugged :D how awesome is that? and what a great event it was! i’m still blown away…
(yes i was too late to buy tickets in the standing area, but obviously it was totally worth it :)
great concert, love to see them again :)
when you talk to someone there are always phrases that you really don’t want to hear. my best example is the question “what kind of music do you like”. there is a specific answer, that i really don’t want to hear. an answer, that makes me turn into the incredible Hulk when I hear it. seriously, it makes my heart and soul bleed.
here’s what happened: recently I had to work in Salzburg and had some co-workers with me. we were four people driving to Salzburg. in the morning, one of my co-workers drove to Salzburg and I myself drove back on the way home. as usual, driver picks the music and since I use the pool-car a lot, I have a few CDs in there and picked “State Radio - Year Of The Crow”. i don’t remember the correct quote, but my youngest co-worker (19) said something about the music, something like if there is anything else we could listen to. by the way, it was not very loud so we could talk as well.
then a co-worker asked her: “what kind of music do you like?”
and she said… wait for it, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait for it…
“well, i like everything”
UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRGGGG!!!!!!
and basically, what is the correct response?
“well, then why should I change the music then?”
seriously, makes. me. mad. therefore my reaction wasn’t very nice. usually i’m much nicer, but “i like everything” basically means, that your musical horizon is limited. very, very, very limited. like only-one-radiostation-limited. ö3-limited. if only someone would think about this sentence, he/she would notice how fucked-up that quote i and that it only means that you didn’t think of the music that you don’t listen to because…. you don’t want to. there is a lot of music i don’t like or don’t want to listen to, but i know it’s there.
to hell with the most obvious choices like techno or folk, there are some kinds of music one couldn’t even imagine. for example, my brother once played pitbull grindcore to me. the recorded barks of pitbulls together with the usual instruments. take a look at “Caninus” - “Vocals are executed by two pit bull terriers. Both were rescued days before euthanization from refuges. Caninus - all strict vegans. It has come time really to allow the animals to have their say.” Hear/see them on last.fm :D
Also, there is “Hatebeak“ - Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low you’ll vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme they simply can’t be human! They’re not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer makes trashes the pathetic birdfeeder you call the metal underground”. see them on last.fm :D
But why go to such extreme measures? For sure you find easier examples much faster (“Metallica? ewwww gross!!!”) for the average “I like everything”-person, because it’s pretty obvious that there is not a snowball’s chance in hell someone likes everything. take classics like Bach or Mozart for example as well… and for that reason I’m thinking of doing a small compilation to play to people when I hear the famous “i like everything” sentence. I’ll call it “some things you just don’t know yet”. But then again, i’m probably a freak.
… or maybe i just like music that much.
the answer is somewhere in between.
but i ask you:
what do you think, why would someone say he/she likes everything?
some band just sent out their newsletter and in there was a very interesting concert date and location announced:
Jul25th A-Sonnegger See, Lakeside www.acousticlakeside.com
who you ask?
SLUT. i’m sure you remember.
at first i didn’t believe it, but hey, it’s their own newsletter, they should know, right? right! so i’m taking this to be great news and i’m really looking forward to this years installment of the acoustic lakeside, which allowed me to take some cool photos last year.
in 2007, monta had to cancel his gig, but i really hope he will come this year, though nothing is announced so far.
infobox:
the “acoustic lakeside 2007″ was a concert with a few bands and supposed to be an all acoustic show. despite not being a full acoustic show, the atmosphere was great, the crowd enjoyed it and i think the artists as well. plus, the landscape is really cool for a concert location:
so looking forward to this.
back from munich! back from a great concert! i’ve seen state radio live.
and what to say, it was every bit exciting as i had hoped for. chetro, chuck and mike pulled of quite an energetic show at a great location: the 59to1 where i have been before for the athlete concert. only this time - even better - it was smoke free (new law in germany)! the setlist included mostly songs from their new album “year of the crow“. trying to get a setlist as i can’t seem to remember the songs of the new album that well. at least i know that they didn’t play “unfortunates” from the new album, which is my favorite. i remember for sure: fall of the american empire, omar bay, wicker plane, cia, guantanamo, gang of thieves, fight no more. and some more. from the other stuff, they played state inspector, black cab motorcade, camilo, mr. larkin (YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!), right me up, waitress, man in the hall, people to people, rushian and even a song from dispatch: time served. so great!
but. no “diner song“. kwentin sad.
what was pretty amazing is that i didn’t expect them to rock that place so hard. i knew it wouldn’t be the same as listening to the CD since i know the Dispatch dvd and other live videos and know that they always like to improvise and change things. it was a blast!
it’s probably the same thing when seeing Monta live - the music is harder than when you hear the tracks on CD.
state radio were supported by “ghost of tom joad” (springsteen and rage against the machine, anyone?) from germany. they were ok as a support, also highly energetic but as richard put it “replaceable”.
so to sum it up:
taken two days off of work: pricystate radio ticket + shipping: 20 EURtrain klagenfurt-munich: 29 EURtrain munich-klagenfurt: 37 EURall you can eat brunch: 19 EURstate radio t-shirt: 15 EURposter of the wrong band: 1 EUR_________________________________________after all: totally worth it.
seeing Chad Stokes live was worth the trip, since he’s like an indepentend music legend already. plus, i have an autograph on the concert ticket. i’m gonna put this in a frame!
what can i say - i’m a fanboy! :)
update: full setlist, powered by patchmusic.info:
01. Fight No More Forever
02. Black Cab Motorcade
03. The Waitress
04. Guantanamo
05. Gang Of Thieves
06. People to People
07. CIA
08. State Inspector
09. As With Gladness
10. Wicker Plane
11. Mr. Larkin
12. Right Me Up
13. Time Served
14. Camilo
15. Rushian
16. Democracy in Kind encore
17. Man in the Hall encore
last.fm just made my day:
http://www.last.fm/music/Barry+Louis+Polisar
Barry Louis Polisar is an author and songwriter who writes children’s music and numerous children’s books, poems and stories.
He has written songs for Sesame Street and The Weekly Reader, has starred in an Emmy Award-winning television show for children and has been featured regularly on The Learning Channel. (…)
first song of the Juno soundtrack “Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want is You” and these are the tags, that last.fm users submitted:
just great haha :)
