All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 25, 2010, including:
Cities Go Mental Wooing Sports Star
Barton Apology Works Head AND Shaft
Touchdown! God Spikes Jesus!
This Is Me Not Caring
Vanessa Carlton’s Big Bi Deal
Ward, you were awfully hard on the Beaver last night…
CNN Asks: Is the Mouse Dead?
The Last Rodeo Drags On
Teenage Angst: Kill Brother Over Butter?
Infrabad: Beyond The Other End Of The Idea Spectrum
Saw Peter Frampton and Yes live at Mohegan Sun on Wednesday.
The contrast between the acts is the difference, in my eyes, or ears, between rock-n-roll and playing a lot of notes. Don’t get me wrong… Steve Howe is an agonizingly competent guitarist, and the rest of the Yes gang certainly knows what they’re doing… but… there’s a certain something lacking from the Yes performance… not sure quite what to call it.. but, I suppose one might describe the shortfall in the Yes performance in terms of the Frampton performance.
I would describe the best Frampton performances as “soaring melancholy”. There’s a goose-bump-raising quality to Frampton that’s harder to come by in, say, Yes. Frampton’s chord changes and melodies are… vulnerably … hopeful… but sad… but vital….
…whereas Yes delivered a lot of notes, and not a great deal of heart.
This was my second Frampton show, and my first in almost thirteen years. His band is tight, competent and, most importantly, playfully soulful.
Yes, on the other hand, hit the notes like they’ve been playing them forty years.
Next time, I’ll see Frampton and pass on Yes.
All the news that shouldn’t be news, including:
GOOOOOAAALLLL!
The Only Thing Missing Was Sarah Palin
Mother Theresa. Let’s Move On, Shall We?
Fool or Fox? Perhaps Just A Jackass.
The Lohan-down
The President’s Demeanor
Scary Linux Headline, Banal IRC Content.
Smith/Chan - The Unnecessary Reboot
Lights Out, Lights On, Light Up
The Sausage King of Virginia Is Dead
All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 11, 2010, including:
Christina Aguilera’s Light-Up Crotch
John Boehner Loses Remaining Touch With Reality
British Petroleum
The Burden of Birth
New, From Apple, It’s ThNew, From AppNew, FNew!
Helen Thomas
Washington man packs light for jail time.
Anonymity, Personalized Just For You!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 4, 2010, including:
The BP Oil Disaster
Thunderstorm Disrupts Memorial Day for Obama
Pope’s Pointless Visit to Cyprus
Al and Tipper Gore
Gary Coleman is Dead.
OpposingViewpoints: The Gaza Flotilla Clash
Google Dumps Windows, Har-Har.
Ray Stevens
Nude Maids, but that’s not the weird part.
BP: Burping Petroleum