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ABA Annual Meeting
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
turned out well, nice people nice fans, good musicians, bad bad bad acoustics for 2/3rd (the middle 2/3rds) of the fields, and I assume that will be fixed next time they do this.
Best and worst I saw:
amateurs: Ambulance LTD... yawwn.
Death Cab for Cutie... definitely not a concert band, but y'all suspected as much. Its too bad too.
And who in the world is "And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead". That show rawked, but why haven't I heard of them before? MTV.com says they've been around since 1994.
Weezer was Weezer, and the Pixies were awesome, which was cool. Dashboard was way over the top pandering to the teenage set, but they sounded good. Liz Phair sounded good too... but (see Death Cab for Cutie above). That said, at least Liz Phair didn't make me cringe. Death Cab was painful.
The Killers were surprisingly awesome for having a singer tied to a keyboard.
and the Redwalls are opening up on the next Oasis tour? Yuck.
Anyone else? RT?
One thing is for sure. Except for the sound problems (too many stages in too little space), the bands definitely liked the venue. I'll be surprised to see much criticism of them.
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I agree with all of the above, though I'm still kicking myself over missing Trail of Dead.
I will say if anyone EVER has the opportunity to see Arcade Fire live, do it. They were amazing.
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