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Thursday, July 10, 2003
After the Gramme: last night's Fall concert was near-excellent, much more enjoyable than Sunday's show, with a bigger and better air-conditioned venue allowing for more concentration on the band and less fear of dehydration. Same basic set list as in New York, with Big New Prinz substituting for I Am Damo Suzuki. (Uhm, you're all following this, right?) Highlight: MES tossing the mike into the first row, as is his wont, during the encore, where I was able to grab it and shout "He!....Is!....Not!....APPRECIATED!" during the appropriate moment in Big New Prinz. I can now die happily. Smith appeared completely off booze for the evening, meaning that instead of crazy and drunk, he was merely crazy, as intensely aloof as I've ever seen him (and if the pictures I snapped come out well, I'll post them for view), actually seeming absorbed in the music generated by his band. He only walked off once (followed by the band; they all came back a moment later; classic Fall stuff). And the band: I'm beginning to relish this new stripped-down, grinding outfit and their ability to create the old Fall magic, whereby a merely adequate riff is brought to transcendental levels by the simple expedient of being played over and over again. "Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it...." I had a great time. |
