What Shows Have You Been To Lately?

**Marie Monday** · 01-31-2019, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by windsock

Patti?

OMG

ziggywas · 02-01-2019, 01:06 PM

ok so i was acting as her self appointed adversary.

seriously tho i m really glad to know she still up to it!

its so sad to see great musicians playing not-so-great shows, boring shows or even humiliating themselves onstage when they get old.

**Frownland** · 03-27-2019, 05:30 PM

So Big Ears was obviously awesome. Ended up seeing:

Derek Gripper
Oren Ambarchi
Yunohana Variations with YoshimiO, Susan Ibarra, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Moor Mother
Alien Flower Sutra (Rob Mazurek and Emmett Kelly)
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
Evan Parker, Matt Wright, Mark Nauseef, Adam Linsen, Ned Rothenberg - Trance Map +
The Comet Is Coming
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs
Jlin
Fire!
Columbia Icefield
Kara-Lis Coverdale Pipe Organ Concert
KTL
Thumbscrew
This Is Not This Heat
serpentwithfeet
Makaya McCraven
Jerusalem In My Heart
Alvin Lucier and the Ever Present Orchestra feat. Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi
Irreversible Entanglements
Wadada Leo Smit's Nda. Performing "Divine Love" with Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews
The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Some Standouts:
This Is Not This Heat was obviously ****ing huge. They started off with Test Card running before they came on stage and broke into Horizontal Hold. Then they performed their whole s/t and almost all of Deceit before ending on Health and Efficiency. Horizontal Hold unfortunately started off with Bullen's guitar amp unplugged or something which was whack and I would've made a few different mixing decisions, but otherwise it was a perfect show.

Irreversible Entanglements played an incredible set to a tightly packed tiny room. Seems like they've taken on a lot more of an energetic approach than on their debut, looking forward to their next one and catching them again.

Yunohana Variations put on an awesome performance full of brilliant and surprising improvisations.

The Evan Parker etc. show was an insane experience. Great collection of performers making it sound like you're another planet.

Jlin was off the hook. Left that show absolutely buzzing.

All three Mary Halvorson shows I saw (Columbia Icefield, Thumbscrew, and Code Girl) were brilliant. Columbia Icefield was my favourite of the bunch. Susan Alcorn really kicked ass on that performance and Michael Formanek killed it on bass during all three of the shows. My one complaint about Halvorson is that she's too serviceable to the other musicians, I want to hear her shred and take over more.

Jerusalem In My Heart had dizzying visuals and can tear it up on whatever oud type instrument he plays. Live electronics, a heavy foot pedal set up, and a vocal tube for manipulation helped him build the dense atmosphere.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago was, as rostasi said in the Your Day thread, more of an Art Ensemble/AACM big band. They started off with some wild improvisations before diving into some more composed pieces that absolutely threw me for a loop, from Moor Mother's appearance to the throat singing to the overall classical direction of the piece. It was incredible.

I could go on but I'll leave it at that. Also met up with rostasi and he's even cooler in person than he is on the forum, believe it or not.

Swoop_Doza · 03-27-2019, 07:03 PM

I don't really go out to concerts much anymore but the last show I saw Coheed and Cambria last month. It was an awesome show, especially because they added a lot of the screaming vocals to the earlier songs, which they typically avoid doing these days. Great energy. Claudio said we were a really good crowd so it nice to know we were our part, as an audience, to make the band feel welcomed.

**Exo** · 03-28-2019, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I could go on but I'll leave it at that. Also met up with rostasi and he's even cooler in person than he is on the forum, believe it or not.

I'm going to try to make it next year and the three of us can hang out and rub each others bellies.

Mondo Bungle · 03-31-2019, 12:12 PM

at AMT I was 100% convinced my skeleton was gonna disassemble. Pretty sure there were tears in my eyes at one point. like I don't really even know it's humanly possible to go that hard. so many times you might be thinking ight there's just no physically possible way to rock harder, but they just kept going for days. I was in a constant state of physical awe that I couldn't even keep my composure if I tried. it was like some state of existence that I wish I would die right then, not for misery, but it was simply the whole of the cosmos and its own ultra heavy voids all channeled into an infinte euphoria and the feeling that there is nothing more that could ever be done because my worldly person had achieved all that can be achieved on both physical and metaphysical planes

rostasi · 03-31-2019, 01:39 PM

cool!

Mondo Bungle · 03-31-2019, 02:37 PM

**Goofle** · 04-09-2019, 06:08 PM

GZA

https://streamable.com/emek3

https://streamable.com/3r9k2

Im so happy with my life right now.

**Frownland** · 04-15-2019, 10:25 AM

John 5

I cringed so hard that my soul left my body.

03-27-2019, 05:30 PM	#423 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	So Big Ears was obviously awesome. Ended up seeing: Derek Gripper Oren Ambarchi Yunohana Variations with YoshimiO, Susan Ibarra, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Moor Mother Alien Flower Sutra (Rob Mazurek and Emmett Kelly) Mary Halvorson's Code Girl Evan Parker, Matt Wright, Mark Nauseef, Adam Linsen, Ned Rothenberg - Trance Map + The Comet Is Coming Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs Jlin Fire! Columbia Icefield Kara-Lis Coverdale Pipe Organ Concert KTL Thumbscrew This Is Not This Heat serpentwithfeet Makaya McCraven Jerusalem In My Heart Alvin Lucier and the Ever Present Orchestra feat. Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi Irreversible Entanglements Wadada Leo Smit's Nda. Performing "Divine Love" with Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews The Art Ensemble of Chicago Some Standouts: This Is Not This Heat was obviously **ing huge. They started off with Test Card running before they came on stage and broke into Horizontal Hold. Then they performed their whole s/t and almost all of Deceit before ending on Health and Efficiency. Horizontal Hold unfortunately started off with Bullen's guitar amp unplugged or something which was whack and I would've made a few different mixing decisions, but otherwise it was a perfect show. Irreversible Entanglements played an incredible set to a tightly packed tiny room. Seems like they've taken on a lot more of an energetic approach than on their debut, looking forward to their next one and catching them again. Yunohana Variations put on an awesome performance full of brilliant and surprising improvisations. The Evan Parker etc. show was an insane experience. Great collection of performers making it sound like you're another planet. Jlin was off the hook. Left that show absolutely buzzing. All three Mary Halvorson shows I saw (Columbia Icefield, Thumbscrew, and Code Girl) were brilliant. Columbia Icefield was my favourite of the bunch. Susan Alcorn really kicked ass on that performance and Michael Formanek killed it on bass during all three of the shows. My one complaint about Halvorson is that she's too serviceable to the other musicians, I want to hear her shred and take over more. Jerusalem In My Heart had dizzying visuals and can tear it up on whatever oud type instrument he plays. Live electronics, a heavy foot pedal set up, and a vocal tube for manipulation helped him build the dense atmosphere. The Art Ensemble of Chicago** was, as rostasi said in the Your Day thread, more of an Art Ensemble/AACM big band. They started off with some wild improvisations before diving into some more composed pieces that absolutely threw me for a loop, from Moor Mother's appearance to the throat singing to the overall classical direction of the piece. It was incredible. I could go on but I'll leave it at that. Also met up with rostasi and he's even cooler in person than he is on the forum, believe it or not. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

04-15-2019, 10:25 AM	#430 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	John 5 I cringed so hard that my soul left my body. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-01-2019, 01:06 PM	#422 (permalink)
ziggywas Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 289	ok so i was acting as her self appointed adversary. seriously tho i m really glad to know she still up to it! its so sad to see great musicians playing not-so-great shows, boring shows or even humiliating themselves onstage when they get old.

03-27-2019, 07:03 PM	#424 (permalink)
Swoop_Doza Groupie Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Ohio Posts: 4	I don't really go out to concerts much anymore but the last show I saw Coheed and Cambria last month. It was an awesome show, especially because they added a lot of the screaming vocals to the earlier songs, which they typically avoid doing these days. Great energy. Claudio said we were a really good crowd so it nice to know we were our part, as an audience, to make the band feel welcomed.

03-31-2019, 01:39 PM	#427 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	cool!