No Star Wars, Thom
Saw Radiohead at the Shoreline Amphitheatre (aka the Shitline Assitheatre) on Tuesday night. Drove out there with Joey, hoping to get cheap tickets, but we both ended up getting in for around $40. Not much cheaper, but still cheaper than paying service charges. We also showed up a little late, after making a quickly corrected wrong turn in SF and then sitting in the parking-lot traffic from hell for about 45 minutes. But we made it in while they were playing My Iron Lung, about 5 or 6 songs in. I looked up the setlist later on, and we missed some great songs early in the set, but we got to see some excellent renditions of Wolf at the Door, Everything in it’s Right Place, Paranoid Android, No Surprises (the line “bring down the government/they don’t work for us” brought a HUGE cheer from the crowd!), Sail to the Moon, Idioteque, and a really great expanded version of the Gloaming, among many others. There were two encores, the sound was nice and clear (no walls to bounce all the muddy bass off of), but the view was terrible. I couldn’t see the stage at all, and had to rely on the big screens above stage to see what was happening. Good show, too bad it couldn’t have been a better venue.
I think we’re gonna watch Dead Man at home tonight. I’ve been meaning to see that movie forever. Jim Jarmusch film, starring Johnny Depp, with Neil Young doing the soundtrack entirely solo…very very promising.
More later…
