Sean Hayes made some music in LA last night. He said goodnight with "a song about a fortune telling chicken." Earlier, he played this:
Flowering Spade is track 13 on Flowering Spade.
The first 2+ hours of the Prince show at The Forum last night were so good that it didn't bother me not to hear this:
When I found out today that he had tricked us into leaving when we did and then played for another hour, I started worrying that he might have played it after we left.
Turns out he didn't. But still. I feel like we missed out. And I'm wondering if we should go see him again. I mean he will be playing 20 more shows in LA this spring. Sneaky move, Prince. Also of note, given the multimedia digitality of this post, are some of Prince's recent thoughts on the internets: The internet's completely over. ... All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers, and that can't be good for you.As for How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, it was originally a b-side on the 1999 single, which came out in 1982. Prince is 52 now. He doesn't dance like it.An old friend - who will remain nameless, given the crime he committed - snuck me into last night's Trey Anastasio show.
It was fun to remember my ever-so-slight embarrassment at loving a song about a book I've never read.
Prince Caspian is track 13 on Billy Breathes.
Good Old War opened for Guster on Saturday. They told us they were about to play a singalong and then closed their set with this....
Lauren and I went to see Guster on Saturday. We thought Luke would appreciate it if we cheered him on while he and his hilarious white wooly cardigan scrambled instrument to instrument all night long.
Hopefully he did.The show was great. So great, in fact, that it wouldn't be fair to highlight just one of the songs we heard.So here's one we didn't:
Well is track 13 on Easy Wonderful.
L and I made our first visit to the Nokia Theater in downtown LA last night. Roving vendors cruise the aisles selling M&Ms and $5 popcorn. And, amazingly, beautiful musical moments abound anyway. For example:
After leaping across the stage for 90 minutes, Scott Avett put his banjo down and picked up an acoustic guitar. Seth Avett, dripping sweat, dropped his guitar and walked to the microphone next to Scott's. The rest of the band left the stage. And Scott sang his little brother a song....We finally made it to an Edward Sharpe show last night.
Everyone in the theater - musicians and audience - sat down for the last song. Then the lights came up, the band jumped off stage to give hugs and high fives, the sound people turned on the Aretha Franklin, and we danced again. It was a beautiful wind down.
Home is track 6 on Up From Below (which seems to be the name of the album only sometimes).
Ween's softer side...
They didn't play it for us quite so tenderly in Anaheim on Wednesday. What we experienced looked and sounded much more like this. But, regardless, you gotta love a band that isn't afraid to play the quiet stuff to a sweaty, dancing audience. A Tear for Eddie is track 5 on Chocolate and Cheese. And the studio version of Tender Situation is track 2 on Pure Guava, though it might be one of those songs that didn't become great until the limitations of liveness smoothed it out.Saw Hoots and Hellmouth last night. After two songs in a tiny, table-filled venue, they successfully requested that people start dancing. I was impressed.
By the request and by the fact that they sang a song about a gypsy.
Two Hearts, a Snake, and a Concubine is track 5 on Hoots and Hellmouth.
