New Radiohead Laser Music Video!

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Concerts

So I've had some extra time this holiday to reflect over this past year. And for some reason, I started to think back at the concerts that I have been to. There were a few that I went to in 2006, but this was really the first time in my life that I could actually go to all of the shows that I wanted to. Well, those I could afford to anyway!

So in 2007 (so far), I have been able to see The Roots, Aaron Lewis of Staind, George Clinton and Parliament, Rush, My Chemical Romance, AFI, Wolfmother, The Killers, The Bravery, Daugherty, Lifehouse, TV on the Radio, and of course....Incubus!

Planning on closing out the year seeing Ghostland Observatory on December 30th. But also hoping to catch how the Edge stole xmas on that Friday to see Jimmy Eat World and Coheed and Cambria.

The best show...Incubus! The show that impressed me the least? Probably either AFI and My Chemical Romance at Edgefest, or The Bravery when they opened for Incubus.

Who did I miss that I wish I hadn't? I would really like to have seen The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus (at gypsy tea room), The Police (though I heard they weren't great), Erykah Badu, Alice Cooper, Joss Stone, The Killers, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timeberlake, Goo Goo Dolls and the Blue October/Yellowcard show. Will also miss Billy Joel and R. Kelly.

Who am I looking forward to seeing this next year? Well, at this point, the only the ones I know about or anticipate rolling through town are Foo Fighters, Van Halen and Bon Jovi.


What about you?

Happy Birthday to me !

Last Sunday the 15th I turned 32 ! And what a way to remember it. I started off by going to the last home game of the Mavs, against the Spurs. We not only had free tickets and parking passes, we also were platinum level. It included a buffett with a carving station! What a game, we were trailing for most of the game before coming from behind to win in the 4th. It was a rowdy, playoff like vibe in the AAC !

Then we headed straight from there to Frisco for Edgefest. By the time we got there, the sun was about to go down. We only caught the last 3 bands I think: AFI, My Chemical Romance and of course.....The Killers !

Had a great bday this year, thanks Staci!

The Roots !

"Hip-hop has been more about the bling-bling than the boom-bap lately and has even been declared dead by some. But Philadelphia's legendary Roots crew and Chi-Town's Lupe Fiasco did their part to rejuvenate the genre with inspiring and entertaining performances before a sold-out crowd in Dallas' Gypsy Tea Room on Monday night.

Few rap acts are as efficient and innovative live as the self-contained The Roots, and the band took it up yet another notch by including Philadelphia's Collective Brass Heaven, a quartet of tuba, sousaphone, saxaphone and trumpet players that walked through the packed crowd and added depth and dimension to newer tracks such as "Game Theory," "Long Time" and the crowd favorite, The Tipping Point's "Star."

Digital cameras and chants of "forever, forever, Roots Crew forever" punctuated the atmosphere as the band dusted off old favorites and wove classic verses alongside their own. Eric B and Rakim's "I Ain't No Joke" melted into the late James Brown's "Get on the Good Foot," then veered back into Roots' territory with "Mellow My Man" and "Love of My Life."

The ecstatic crowd parroted Black Thought verse for verse as he, ?uestlove, Hub, Jeff Bradshaw and Malik charged through "Apache (Jump On It)," "Award Tour," "Get By" and even West Coast and Dirty South favorites such as "Deep Cover," "It's Goin' Down" and "Snap Yo' Fingers."

After a false exit and a couple of extended solos by Brass Heaven and bass player Hub, guitarist Mr. Bradshaw captured the country's cynicism about the war with his piercing rendition of "Master of War," earning cheers or approval as he achingly declared that "all the money you make could never buy back your soul."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-roots_0221gl.State.Edition1.394a166.html

Masters of War

Just discovered this song by Bob Dylan. How timely and fitting, though it was written 40 years ago:

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Sam's Town ?

The Killers claim that Sam's Town is the best record in the past 20 years. Not sure about that yet, will have to see how it stands up to the test of time. But I finally purchased it on Itunes recently. I have not been able to stop listening to it nor have I gotten tired of it yet. That's saying quite a bit for me! I have listened to it about a dozen times so far.