Okay, but send it soon, I'm leaving for Boston early Saturday morning. :-) I have the Panic show here "in town" to go to tomorrow too, I'm pretty excited.
I'll write more about Bamboozle in an email (you know how I can get verbose) but in summary the FBR-related groups I saw were Cobra, TAI, We The Kings, The Cab, Black Gold, Gym Class, and Panic (and I saw a bunch of non-FBR groups too). Both Cobra and TAI sounded better musically than I expected for some reason. I felt bad for Black Gold, they barely had 20 people standing up by their stage - they played in the big football practice bubble, so the acoustics were horrible, they got screechy feedback a couple times, and generally it all fell a little flat. :-( I'm not a huge fan of Gym Class Heroes but they put on a good show and did a nice cover of "When Doves Cry." Two girls standing next to me were like, "What is this song? It's not on their album...?" and I was like, "*facepalm*. The youth of today... Oh, I also did a stroll-by of the stage where Tyga was...I'm not impressed. Whatever. Anyway, my two big discoveries were We The Kings and The Cab, I had never really listened to them before and they were both great live. The Cab, what can I say? For real, they are cuter than a box full of kittens. They're like Panic 2.0, I guess, all really young and from Vegas. The crowd was just crazy for them and I can see why, they were great performers. The only bummer of the day was that I was very tired by the time Panic played, and really none of my video or audio came out well. I had both a (relatively) new camera and a (very) new phone, so now I've learned the hard way what settings to use. I will tell you about Panic separately but basically they did the same set (and the same banter) that they've been doing for HCT.
A&K was a disappointment, as I had suspected. It is fine to go to as a tourist but as a NYC bar it is nothing too special. It's also really a pain to get to using the subway (we had to take the L train, ugh), which is annoying to natives. We ended up going Saturday night, and I expected to maybe see some people from that day's Bamboozle there, but the moment we walked in, I could immediately identify the 3/4 of the crowd that were loitering around trying to celebrity-spot, and the 1/4 of the crowd who were from the neighborhood and annoyed at all the gawkers in their local hangout. It is very small inside and two areas were marked as "reserved," but there were just a couple drunk scene-looking girls hanging out, nothing to see there. There are actually two different height marker mugshot things on the walls, one next to the bathroom doors and one on the wall behind the bar - all the photos posted on the web are definitely from the one behind the bar. We were pretty disenchanted by the whole experience, so we just snapped a quick phone-camera photo of each of us by the height thingie near the bathrooms. There's not much space, so you can only get a headshot there, but we didn't think it was worth it to beg the bartender to let us behind the bar, particularly since the place was crowded with people who probably saw those photos of Panic and would want to do it too. So...yeah. It was fine but nothing special. :-(
I'll send you details after Boston...honestly I am still undecided about the M&G. Tell me how yours was, I think I need more convincing that it won't just stress me out. Being herded around in lines makes me crabby!
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Date: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 02:51 am (UTC)I'll write more about Bamboozle in an email (you know how I can get verbose) but in summary the FBR-related groups I saw were Cobra, TAI, We The Kings, The Cab, Black Gold, Gym Class, and Panic (and I saw a bunch of non-FBR groups too). Both Cobra and TAI sounded better musically than I expected for some reason. I felt bad for Black Gold, they barely had 20 people standing up by their stage - they played in the big football practice bubble, so the acoustics were horrible, they got screechy feedback a couple times, and generally it all fell a little flat. :-( I'm not a huge fan of Gym Class Heroes but they put on a good show and did a nice cover of "When Doves Cry." Two girls standing next to me were like, "What is this song? It's not on their album...?" and I was like, "*facepalm*. The youth of today... Oh, I also did a stroll-by of the stage where Tyga was...I'm not impressed. Whatever. Anyway, my two big discoveries were We The Kings and The Cab, I had never really listened to them before and they were both great live. The Cab, what can I say? For real, they are cuter than a box full of kittens. They're like Panic 2.0, I guess, all really young and from Vegas. The crowd was just crazy for them and I can see why, they were great performers. The only bummer of the day was that I was very tired by the time Panic played, and really none of my video or audio came out well. I had both a (relatively) new camera and a (very) new phone, so now I've learned the hard way what settings to use. I will tell you about Panic separately but basically they did the same set (and the same banter) that they've been doing for HCT.
A&K was a disappointment, as I had suspected. It is fine to go to as a tourist but as a NYC bar it is nothing too special. It's also really a pain to get to using the subway (we had to take the L train, ugh), which is annoying to natives. We ended up going Saturday night, and I expected to maybe see some people from that day's Bamboozle there, but the moment we walked in, I could immediately identify the 3/4 of the crowd that were loitering around trying to celebrity-spot, and the 1/4 of the crowd who were from the neighborhood and annoyed at all the gawkers in their local hangout. It is very small inside and two areas were marked as "reserved," but there were just a couple drunk scene-looking girls hanging out, nothing to see there. There are actually two different height marker mugshot things on the walls, one next to the bathroom doors and one on the wall behind the bar - all the photos posted on the web are definitely from the one behind the bar. We were pretty disenchanted by the whole experience, so we just snapped a quick phone-camera photo of each of us by the height thingie near the bathrooms. There's not much space, so you can only get a headshot there, but we didn't think it was worth it to beg the bartender to let us behind the bar, particularly since the place was crowded with people who probably saw those photos of Panic and would want to do it too. So...yeah. It was fine but nothing special. :-(
I'll send you details after Boston...honestly I am still undecided about the M&G. Tell me how yours was, I think I need more convincing that it won't just stress me out. Being herded around in lines makes me crabby!