Went to see Neil Young last night and am leaving to go see Feist in about half an hour. I’m super tired but sometimes a girl just has to rock.
The Neil Young show was great – he totally rocked it, as expected. He played a few newer songs but mostly played older, more familiar tunes. I had seen him before but it was still really great. The set list was as follows:
1. Love And Only Love
2. Hey Hey, My My
3. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4. Powderfinger
5. Spirit Road
6. Cinnamon Girl
7. Oh, Lonesome Me
8. Mother Earth
9. The Needle And The Damage Done
10. Unknown Legend
11. Heart Of Gold
12. Old Man
13. Get Back To The Country
14. Just Singing A Song
15. Sea Change
16. When Worlds Collide
17. Cowgirl In The Sand
18. Rockin’ In The Free World
19. A Day In The Life
The encore was a total surprise but they totally made some serious motherfucking noise on that one. He finished it by using all his broken guitar strings to wail on his pickup, and then left the guitar feeding back to go up and play the vibraphone. Totally rad.
The other awesome part of the evening was that Death Cab for Cutie were the opening band, and they were amazing. They just have so many good songs, and everyone is such a good player in that band that it’s kind of hard to believe. Ben Gibbard’s voice sounded excellent, and the sound was surprisingly good for the Agridome (yes, that’s what it’s called) so I could actually hear all the words. Plus he has a really cute butt. Nice.
One thing I will never understand is why people pay $80 and up to see a show and then spend it talking to their friends, texting, or just screwing around. Weird. I guess it’s part of those larger venue shows (not like the space is that big – I think it’s about six thousand people for a show like that.) I just don’t get it, though. Ditto the getting completely bladdered. We saw quite a few people getting hauled out looking like they’d been clubbed in the head and had lost the power of movement and balance. To each their own, I suppose, but it all just seems like such a waste to me.
I’ve seen Feist a few times before, too, but I’m excited to see her in a larger venue. Each time I’ve seen her it’s been a bigger and bigger space, and she is always so fabulous live. She has amazing presence and always has supremely excellent musicians in her band, and you can just tell they all really love playing live. Hopefully the crowd will be into it tonight and I’ll have enough fun to make up for how tired I am.
Substantive posts to follow about the support group meeting last week (awesome), my women’s circle meeting yesterday (awesomer), and life on 100mg daily Clomid (jury still out, but slightly hot-flashy and weird, final verdict Tuesday morning at first follicle tracking scan.)
Over and out.
