wire

so, to continue from the last post, i worked saturday, then i came home and tried to take a nap; it lasted an hour, which didn't really do much for me, but whatever. so i got ready to leave and headed to philly for the wire show at union transfer. i've never seen wire before so i didn't know what to expect. and when i asked my boss about it, he pretty much just said they're "a wild card" and you can't really expect anything from them. that sounds fun to me, it's cool when bands just do whatever they want. i was just having this discussion with someone else in a band, i've been in my band for around 10 years now and he's been in his for a few years, and we both get sick of older songs after a while. my band hardly ever does songs that came out on the first album. and that's only 10 or less years ago that we started playing them. so i said i wonder how it feels for bands that started playing certain songs in the 70s and 80s to feel that they still have to play them at shows now. i know that it totally makes my night to hear a song that made me fall in love with a band, and i appreciate it a lot because i know they're probably forcing themselves to do it every night. so it was cool that wire didn't do stuff like "12XU" and "mannequin" and "reuters" and "i am the fly" and "outdoor miner." yeah, i would have loved to hear those songs live, i won't deny that. but i loved watching the band play the songs that THEY WANTED to play. oh before i forget, the opening band, bear in heaven, were really cool. even though technical difficulties fucked up the end of their set. i'm going to have to check them out. so anyway, wire- i was so tired but managed to enjoy myself anyway. i found myself getting entranced by little things, like colin newman's hand as he would play a bunch of really fast downstrokes, and graham lewis's hand going up and down the bass neck methodically, and i found myself getting endlessly entranced by robert gotobed's arms. a lot of the songs consist of him playing sixteenth notes on the hi-hat all the way through. i couldn't bring myself to look away. it was just a really great show. totally different from the night before (party central) but still really, really great. it's really cool to see legends like those guys up on a stage playing anything, even if it's not your favorite song, just because of who they are and how amazing they still sound. it was a little slow going, the show, but it slowly picked up the pace and by the end of the night they were really tearing it up.

oh and their newest album, change becomes us, is fucking KILLER. i will leave you with that.

oh, except this- my friend and his wife that i saw the night before were at this show too and i saw later that they posted pictures of themselves with colin newman after the show. i hung out for a while but left around midnight because i was tired and still had to drive for an hour to get home, so i was bummed that i missed out on meeting him. oh well.

oh yeah, and also i'm going to another show tonight! when i party, i party hard, just like andrew w.k.

smell ya later.