sweet sweet mediocrity
Boston, Malkmus, Vanderslice
I want to thank Rebecca and Kerry for letting Alex, John and myself crash at their pad last weekend. What a blast. For someone who’s never done much travelling Boston is a terrific city, especially in good company. Needless to say we came home a little pickled and at least one of us was rather flushed.
We went up on Thursday (Apr. 3) for the 9 o’clock Jicks concert. Malkmus was amazing of course; playing a set comprised mainly of songs off of the Jicks new album, Real Emotional Trash. They played for upwards of 2(!) hours, including a 4 song encore.
As we arrived it could be heard that John Vanderslice had already begun. Rebecca and Alex had to leave us at the front gate and go find Rebecca’s ID.
It’s a little strange that I’ve praised Vanderslice for so many years (being a fan of his older stuff, I can’t profess a knowledge of his entire works) and was ultimately let down by… I don’t know what to call it. Frilly arm waving, an attempt at something great by playing a poignant acoustic set in the middle of the audience (no offense but it sounded quite amateurish) left me with a sense of being cheated. The man is a great lyricist and can produce some amazing songs/sounds from within the studio but the bravado he performed with on Thursday was a few motions short of retarded.
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