by jfromel » Mon May 18, 2009 1:14 am
I wore my Bauhaus T-shirt to the Brian Wilson show at the Paramount, he did the classic Beach Boys stuff, then he played smile cover to cover and it was nothing short of amazing, then he came out for an encore and did Christmas Carols, in July becuase he is Brian Wilson. If I remember correctly he actually said "I am going to do some Christmas tunes because I can" One of the best shows I have ever seen. I got to meet him after the show, he was pretty cool but made some snide comment about my shirt. So......
I wore my Brian Wilson T-shirt to the Bauhaus show at the Paramount. What a waste of $27 and I am a huge Bauhaus fan, I have all their records (On Vinyl), I have everything Tones on Tail ever recorded, Dali's Car, Love and Rockets, Jazz Butcher, David J's solo stuff, yep I have it all and that show sucked. I have seen Love and Rockets a dozen times and Tones once, Peter Murphy 3 or 4 times so I was pretty excited to see one of my favorite bands live for the first time, meh. They didn't bother playing In the Flat Field or Double Dare, the sound was absolute crap, they played for 90 minutes including an encore consisting of nothing more than 9 minutes of Bela and I was home and in bed before 10. They should have spent less time on the hair spray and makeup and more time practicing and sound checking.
Not really and old band but an old show.... My wife took me to the Austrialian Pink Floyd show last year for my birthday, that show was amazing, they played The Wall cover to cover and it was perfect. They nailed it. They did an encore which was played really well but I would have been totally happy if they had just walked off stage after the Wall and turned the lights on.