smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: hard angels |
| Date | Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:56:36 -0800 (PST) |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (3.9 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
~~~~i just want to say before my comment that i AM a
counting crows/adam duritz FAN.
okay, that said, the CC have plenty of songs they can
do acoustic or ARE acoustic, and i have seen then live
2-3 times and i just get the sense that they slow down
too many songs, and wreck the feel/passion/emotion
behind them due to, well....perhaps what seems to my
perception as adam's potential slothfulness or lack of
stamina or out of breathness. like the dude can't
hang. he's got to sit down and catch a breather or
something. and i LOVE the counting crows. and i love
him...so, i'm not trying to rip to rip, but at times,
i felt CC shows bordering on boring, to the point of
if they came around again, i would take a free ticket,
but since they are 'big' enough to warrant 'big'
ticket prices, i can't see spending 30-50 bucks on a
show that i might be watching slowed down versions of
MOST of the songs and him sort of being sort of
listless and sitting down !!! for most of them...
i mean....c'mon!! it's a tour! stay in shape, get in
shape beforehand. i used to smoke plenty of pot
myself (if he in fact does indulge), but do that AFTER
the show!! not before!! or if so, do only enough to
get the good peaky buzz! i just felt that it was like,
okay slow down mr. jones or this song or that song,
but not ALL of them. some of them deserve the actual
treatment given on the record, cause that's what makes
them GOOD! maybe chicago was late tour, i have no
clue. i just felt disappointed the times i saw the
crows live. like i always wanted more from a band i
like SOOO much on record.
jocelyn, searching and STILL wanting to make excuses.
and kind of wondering what an aofs sounds like
acoustic...
--- JBrenneman@macdermid.com wrote:
> >Ms. Geboy:
>
> >"you know, i really am enjoying the counting crows'
> >hard candy, but i am currently playing their song
> >'angels of the silences,' and man....wow. what a
> >rocker. cranking it up is something they don't
> really
> >do too often, but this baby has some real power
> behind
> >the often too lamented 'whiny angst,' and i think
> >duritz does himself a real disservice by not
> kicking
> >it up a notch and rocking it out."
>
> In 2001, Counting Crows were by far the band I
> investing the most time, and
> money, in - I believe we saw them 7 or 8 times. I
> had a website with some
> photos, and I'm guessing it's still up??
> http://www.geocities.com/monets_house
> Not exactly sure since internet availability is
> slim these days other than
> this e-mail only access at work here.
>
> Anyway, Angels Of The Silences was always my
> favorite live no matter how
> they performed it, and every time was different. the
> first experience I had
> with AOTS was when we caught Counting Crows at the
> wonderful Wiltern
> Theatre in L.A. and we were sitting in the balcony.
> That was THE most
> rocking version I've heard and the entire balcony
> crowd was jumping in
> unison and I KNEW that by the end of the song the
> balcony would collapse
> and we'd be on the top of the pile. I was thinking
> the balcony was designed
> for the Phantom Of The Opera crowd, not a bunch of
> enthusiastic rock n
> rollers. Fortunately the balcony held up fine and my
> paranoia subsided. My
> favorite versions though of the song were always
> when they performed it
> acoustic, absolutely amazing! I've seen folks on
> here type that a song is
> 'perfect,' that is exactly how I feel about Counting
> Crows performing
> Angels Of The Silences acoustic. So while agree that
> it is quite a rocker,
> it some how is just as wonderful acoustic, I'm
> thinking.
>
> Unrelated appreciation, Thanks Mr. Coxe!!
>
> -Jeff Brenneman
>
> NP: Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby (It's not The
> New Pornographers, but
> I'm diggin' it! REDNECKS RULE!!! Don't they? Um...)
>
>
>
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.