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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: christine on August 12, 2007, 11:02:14 PM
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Okay, 'fess up, who was at the Ted Leo show today? I spotted a dude in a Newbridge shirt and a friend said he saw another in a Gorch shirt. FOTs abound! So were you there? Did you go on the Slip n' Slide?
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I went to the show with a Newbridge t-shirt in hopes that maybe Teddy Rockstar would play "Rock n' Roll Dreams'll Come True" but no luck -- just a usual awesome mix of music. I ran into a guy wearing a Gorch t-shirt afterwards.
The setting was might distracting with things like the two hippies dancing with hula hoops and the chubby guy wearing nothing but speedos and a beer gut. I pray that Tom went just to hear his take on the crowd.
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Best Ted Leo rock show last week: Whirlyball ATL. Not even the disturbing sight of Henry Owings wearing a black Team Chunklet jumpsuit, goggles, a red headband, and some sort of special glove that allows for better grip on the netted stick -- he looked like a cross between the Zodiac Killer and Rambocky -- could derail the juggernaut of awesomeness that is Ted Leo + Rx. (Birds of Avalon rocked hard, too.)
He played Rush's "The Spirit of Radio" during the encore.
Trivia: Ted plays Whirlyball in a Public Enemy t-shirt. He's good!
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I had all intentions to go, but it didn't work out. Hopefully I'll get to see him again sometime.
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Best Ted Leo rock show last week: Whirlyball ATL.
UGH no FAIR. I wish New York had a Whirlyball. I would play the s-hit out of some Whirlyball.
Who won, anyway? Didn't Henry say the Chunklet team was undefeated? Did Teddy break their winning streak?
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Best Ted Leo rock show last week: Whirlyball ATL.
UGH no FAIR. I wish New York had a Whirlyball. I would play the s-hit out of some Whirlyball.
Who won, anyway? Didn't Henry say the Chunklet team was undefeated? Did Teddy break their winning streak?
Team Chunklet remains undefeated, but Teddy earned their respect.
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Good Guys always win (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f16d0uHev6s).
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Good work, Omar. that was almost like being there. I can't wait to go to college where my parents can't tell me not to go to Brooklyn.
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what school are you headed to Dan?
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Oh my GOD that GIRL.
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what school are you headed to Dan?
Rutgers
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Oh my GOD that GIRL.
SERIOUSLY. She makes me sad. Although watching Teddy Rockstar skip after her gave me some truly epic lulz.
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"Oh my GOD that GIRL."
Hey, at least she has some good footage for her eventual intervention. Great picture of her and the bass player on Pitchfork.
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Oh my GOD that GIRL.
props to teddy for not tweedying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmAvy7C2co) her. not like he'd hit a gal, but jeesh... teddy just keeps rocking without missing a beat. not quite as awesome as this legendary performance (http://youaintnopicasso.com/images/TL01.jpg) at the pitchfork fest last year though.
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Oh my GOD that GIRL.
props to teddy for not tweedying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmAvy7C2co) her. not like he'd hit a gal, but jeesh... teddy just keeps rocking without missing a beat. not quite as awesome as this legendary performance (http://youaintnopicasso.com/images/TL01.jpg) at the pitchfork fest last year though.
Best one I ever saw live was this one guy who has his arm out stretched to shake Bob Dylan's hand only to get tackled by a roadie like he was playing linebacker.
The other seeing the Allman Brothers with one guy just walking across the stage giving the thumbs up to the band bobbing his head to the music.
Oh Great Woods its always entertaining to see a show there.
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At the Hold Steady show in Prospect Park on Thursday, kids kept magically appearing on stage and immediately being dragged off by security. At least four or five of them. One girl tried to climb up from the front row and was stopped mid-climb by a security guard, but for whatever reason she couldn't get back down, and the guard had to lift her on to the stage just to escort her off. Then two of her friends followed her: up onto the stage and straight to the wings...I guess 'cause it was easier than wading through the crowd to find her?
Why do people think this is an okay thing to do?
Relatedly: From Jon's tour diary (http://superchunk.com/tourarchive/octnov99.html). Scroll to Oct. 30th. God I would kill to have seen that.
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Relatedly: From Jon's tour diary (http://superchunk.com/tourarchive/octnov99.html). Scroll to Oct. 30th. God I would kill to have seen that.
That's hilarious. Instead of just keeping it, they should have made the kid eat his shirt.
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See! Jon Wurster and I have similar attitudes about KISS:
I left the store the proud owner of used copies of Kiss' Destroyer and The The's Soul Mining.
Surely some of you are aware of my sick fascination with Kiss. I loved them as a 10-year old and rediscovered them in my late-20's to be the "World's Worst Band." One of my friends once told me that I am probably the world's only Kiss fan who doesn't like their music. Angie once threatened to kick me out of the house when she discovered me sitting in the basement transcribing the lyrics to Dressed To Kill's "Room Service"*.
*Quite possibly the world's worst song. The lyrics, written by Paul, describe the trials of life on the road. The first verse finds Mr. Stanley alone in his hotel room. He's about to turn the light out and call it a night when the phone rings and a sultry voice asks if he's "too tired or just too dead for some room service." In the second verse, our hero sits alone in an airport bar. He hears that his flight has been cancelled. He is about to grab his coat and leave when " a stewardess in a tight blue dress says, 'I got the time'" and pretty soon she's "down on her knees, beggin' please/and right before I leave I get some room service." Verse three portrays the Lover as felon. I will transcribe the verse in its entirety:
Hangin' round in my hometown and the girls are treating me real good/Sweet 16, looking hot and mean, says, "I wish you would"/And just as I'm about to tell her "yes, I think I will"/I see her dad/He's getting mad/He knows I'm in need of room service.
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I pray that Tom went just to hear his take on the crowd.
I hope - for his own sake - that he didn't wear his famed sunglasses to it.
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I'm totally pro-Tweedy on that one. Anyone that jumps onstage while a band is playing and starts those kinds of shenanigans deserves to get kicked hard. I'm for equal rights of the sexes, so that includes girls. I actually was expecting a bandmember to just kick her offstage. You can kick someon (or, more accurately, push them with your foot) and still play guitar. It's a good thing to do. I did that once at a Tokeleys Halloween gig in the Deitch Projects warehouse. Some art-wad idiot jumped onstage and started screaming into our microphone. All I did was just kick him offstage and he got all mad at us. After the show he said "You shouldn't kick people." and we yelled at him. And then he said "You guys fucking ruin all the fucking fun!". Glory Days...
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Best one I ever saw live was this one guy who has his arm out stretched to shake Bob Dylan's hand only to get tackled by a roadie like he was playing linebacker.
The other seeing the Allman Brothers with one guy just walking across the stage giving the thumbs up to the band bobbing his head to the music.
Oh Great Woods its always entertaining to see a show there.
wow... i thought i was the only person in the boston area who still calls it great woods! every concert ive been to there has been a zoo. radiohead in 2003 ended with a massive masshole fueled bonfire in the parking lot.
i would have loved to see said roadie tackle mr. soy bomb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKhNrvUXN4) at the 98 grammies.
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My favorite bonfire at Great Woods was the second lollapalooza. Where the whole back fence was ripped down with two fires going. With folks jumping through it. Oh the good old days. Which made the concert take place at t hat dust pit of Quensott point the next few years. Also it will always be Great Woods to me.
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Actually it wasn't until this thread until I realized that Ted Leo and Teddy Rockstar were one in the same. I went and it was one of the best concerts I've ever attended - I'm a relative oldster these days so I mostly hung back - I didn't even know that girl, until the next day when I was looking for photos on Flickr. I actually got into Teddy and TBSOWFMU at about the same time, which is to say the past six months or so. Both of them made an enjoyable stay in Austin, TX, even more enjoyable.
Anyway, I spotted Sr. Corazon, but not the Gorch fellow. Thought about saying hi, but lost my nerve.
And Dan B, I teach at Rutgers. If you ever wind up in my class (which is a tiny bit likely, as I teach Expos 2, which everyone has to take), you should identify yourself as a FOT. Or you can just take my screenwriting class, which is easier and more fun anyway, and we can openly discuss our adoration of all things Tom. Hopefully it won't be a wistful remembrance.