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April 3, 2006
Sunday Having Been Taken Back
Whoa, I am waaaaaaay too old for this
Lovely evening in C@L this Monday. Caught the national championship game at the Pike Place Brewery, which at least had the good sense to offer enough ambient noise to drown out head blathermonkey Billy Packer. Then we headed across the street to the Showbox to see Taking Back Sunday at an all ages show (doors at 6, first band at 7.
Admittedly, I didn't know too much about Taking Back Sunday. A friend sent a website, but mostly all I knew was that they were "the band from the snowboarding game." That's all we had. The snowboarding video game. But hey, music's music, and I was happy to check it out.
What I learned at Taking Back Sunday:
(1) I just walked into My Space!: I've been too old for rock shows before (most notably I tried to see Weezer a few years back while Dashboard Confessional was opening), but this was ridiculous. All the kids were out tonight, and the digital cameras and cell phones were in effect! Granted, it was an all-ages show, and this band's audience tends to be 16 years old, but it was still a bit much. They just look so young! And they're so energetic! The atmosphere was flush with emoticons and IM abbreviations! Would you believe that they actually had one of the bars at the Showbox closed tonight? I know. It sounds crazy.
(2) You have GOT to stop swinging that microphone: the lead singer was one of those non-instrument-playing lead singers, and the lead guitarist did about half the singing. Yeah. So. The ostensible lead singer did a lot of microphone lassoing to compensate. Maybe he thought his gyrations would distract us and we wouldn't notice how unimportant he actually was in the grand scheme of things up there, silly haircut and all. But seriously. Enough with the microphone. Seriously.
(3) Much Like TV Sports On The West Coast...: we managed to watch the national championship and check out a sold-out concert that was clearly the highlight of many teenagers' week -- and I was home by 10:30. You just can't beat that. And the concert -- my anthropological snarkiness aside -- was actually pretty good. The band was pretty tight, the crowd was into it, and I felt all parties gave an honest effort. Well worth it. Don't know if I have another show in me, but that's more a me-being-way-too-old-and-worrying-about-arousing-the-suspicion-of-the-FBI thing than it is a Taking Back Sunday thing.
Posted by thatkid at April 3, 2006 11:27 PM under
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A friend who works in the music biz out here told me after the fact that they actually refer to the Taking Back Sunday genre as "MySpaceMo."
Of course they do.
Posted by: thatkid at April 6, 2006 12:00 AM
i hope i didn't swing the mic too much. it's hard when you:
1) don't have anything else to do instrument-wsie during an extended solo
2) are stuck on a small stage
3) gotta do something.
Posted by: Chris at April 7, 2006 9:08 AM
Trust me, dude. You were fine. Barely even noticed it. This guy was completely ADD about the whole thing. He needed a tambourine or something.
Posted by: thatkid at April 7, 2006 11:09 AM
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