i like music.
So yah… There has been a ton of awesome music comin’ round town lately. Insane. Woohoo. Good stuff.
So my week of music started off with a FREE Chromeo show at Mezzanine… I figured it was a Monday night, so it wouldn’t be THAT crowded, despite there being over 3,000 people on the RSVP list.. I was wrong. Dana and I got to Mezzanine around 10:30pm, and we made it to the front of the line and then… DENIED. We were the NEXT people in, and they cut off capacity. Poop. That kinda sucked. But, at least I got a picture with the bouncer.
But, whatever.. cuz my week of music continued on Tuesday.. Jude joined me, and we headed to Z-Trip at the Independent. He’s touring with Gift of Gab and Aceyalone, and they apparently did the soundtrack to some video game. Z threw out a copy of the video game at the show, which hit me in the head. I don’t have an xbox 360, but at least I got a free game. Woo. In any case, Z-trip ROCKED the house. And I love the Independent. Such a good venue.
So yah.. I missed the Chromeo show on Monday… But… Marcy was on the list for the Thursday night show in LA.. Hmmm.. this.. just.. might.. work…. And.. I like road trips.. So… I headed down to LA. Woohoo. Chromeo was actually only just ok, but, the openers were quite fantastic, including the kids from the Low End Theory party that was usually at the Echoplex that night. And I got to hang out with Marcy. Super bonus happy fun time..
But wait, there’s more… Friday night, I had tickets to the Daft Punk show at the Greek theater in Berkeley… so yah, I drove back up to SF, just in time to join up with the party bus that Julia arranged.
Yah.. Daft Punk was off the hook.. The French duo was able to get the entire place up on their feet, and I’ve never been to such an energetic show there. Incredible. The visuals were absolutely amazing. Good times.
I took a little break over the weekend (who goes out on weekends anyway), and then the week of music came to a close on Monday… Matt Kenny had an extra ticket to the Smashing Pumpkins show at the Fillmore… The Pumpkins were playing something like 14 shows there, so I figured.. why not? I mean.. it was the super crazy week of fun music, afterall.
The Pumpkins played a 3.5 hour set. Yah.. that’s a long time, especially for ADD me. And honestly, not being a huge Pumpkins fan, I only recognized a few of the songs — although honestly, I think a lot of the stuff they played hardly anyone really knew. In the middle of the show, Billy gave a little speech about how this was a new band or something or other and that they were going to be moving forward. All I can say that is he is one tall dude. I mean, the guitar looks like a toy in his hands. Yah. I’m glad I saw them and all, it was a decent enough show, but yah.. once is enough (but not for Matt Kenny, who went like 6 times)…
And with that.. my baker’s week (8 days) of music came to an end. Yah.. good times. I like music. A lot.
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