Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Ryan Adams should let me stand up

he really should...
I love the guy, but after a beer or two and a little somethin somethin I don't want to sit the whole time at a concert that contains no acoustic guitar. The event I'm referring to was Ryan Adams and the Cardinals at the Palace Theater in Cleveland last week. Me Ty, Lindner, and Tia (Mikes best gal) made the weekday concert run that we do on the regular because god forbid any national acts make Pittsburgh a priority. The curtains came up on an awesome rock show including some space age lighting and a monolithic gong holder, not to mention an unbelievably tight band that cranked out almost 3 hours of music. Nothing about the concert invited sleepiness, in fact many of Radams slower numbers we're performed as juiced up Headbangers and like I said the acoustic so prominent on all his records made no appearance. So what was wrong? SEATS!
this leads me to believe we need to set some rules for 28 North:
1. If you sit, we sit. A sit down audience should not be rocked at, but reflected with
2. If we're all sitting, we'll play acoustic guitar. Acoustic guitar is great and has an especially potent effect when performed in the presence of people whos knees are bent 90 degrees, go figure.
So if we rock out, you rock out, and if we reflect, you do to. Thanks radams
-AS

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