Friday, July 15, 2005

[EDIT] "Snoop Dogg plays the San Jose Civic August 4, with $30 tickets on sale at ticketmaster Sunday." While not someone I'd go see (though he rocked Live 8), good to see diverse artists at the Civic. (prior artist include: Kelly Clarkson, Billy Idol, Beck, The Pixies all within the last few months)

*Blogger readers -> There's now a digg section on the right hand corner of this site, typically full of tech and other news that interest me - always changing, it might be worth a look.
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For local readers, be happy to know that the Civic Auditorium in San Jose could be the next happenin' musical venue playing fiddle to large scale bands that normally would take a South Bay-er an hour each way to San Francisco for shows! I caught Beck and Le Tigre this past week and to simplify, think of the floor layout, but slightly larger, of San Francisco's Fillmore and half of the balcony's seating of (again) San Francisco's Warfield Theater, and you've got yourself the Civic Auditorium. Very, very cool.


Le Tigre

This band, a band definitely hand picked by Beck, plays what they call "feminist punk electronic music"... which is about accurate! I'll admit their music and performance was not something I'd come across in my past experience, their incredibly danceable music set to a video stream of odd and eighties looking transitions slideshow somehow just made sense.


Beck

Beck, oh Beck, which musical genius was going to show up on this night? Never experiencing a live Beck show before, that really became a valid question. Would we see the hip-hop/electronic version of Beck, the crooning heartbroken version of Sea Change fame, or the 70's funk of Mutation?

At least for this tour, we saw the electronic Beck, with hints and a little sprinkling of his mellower side during a show-stealing acoustic set. Taking heavily from his latest, Guero, and Odelay (Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, The New Pollution), Beck performed straight on with a full band and a video backdrop reminiscent of those visualization images you'll see when you play music set to iTunes or Windows Media Player. Best of show included an improved on the spot acoustic rendition and sing along of Nelly's Hot in Herre (hope i spelled it right?), because geez it was (and still is!) over 90 degrees here in San Jose! Acoustic performances of The Golden Age, a take from his heartbreaker of an album, Sea Change,, and Crap Hands rose above all else.
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this week = beck, le tigre, constant checking of jury duty status, john hiatt, harry potter, ice cream social, telephone misinterpretations (or so i think).

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