All the news that shouldn’t be news for September 24, 2010, Including:
A Useless Bag Of Protoplasm
Christine O’Donnell: This Isn’t My Nose, It’s A False One!
Mmmmm. Cults.
This Old Randy Quaid House
Death Of A Gym Teacher
Celebrity Obsession
Not Scared Of Flying, Yet?
Dirty Dancing with the Stars
Octomom: Not That We Shouldn’t Have Seen This Coming
Toy Safety: Nothing Is Safe
All the news that shouldn’t be news for September 17, 2010 including…
Someday He’ll Learn to Lay Low
More From Captain Obvious
Pastor Jones Chickens Out
Goo-Goo For Ga-Ga
A Sad Victim of Flamboyance Inflation
Bush Tax Cuts
Reports of iPhone’s Demise Are Premature
What Ever Happened To Jeans And T-Shirts
Legal v. Reasonable
On Keeping Work and Private Separate
Mathews Finally Around The Bend
All the news that shouldn’t be news for Sept. 10, 2010, Including…
Bristol’s a STAR, now?!
Now They Get It!
Hawking Further Reduces God’s Honey-Do List
Paying You To Tell Me About Your Couple Days In Jail.
AP’s Treatment Of Schimmel Death Completely Unfunny
Burning Qurans on 9/11
iPad Competitors: Homogeneous Variety?
Ah, Marital Fidelity!
Things to avoid…
M is for Maintenance.
All the news that shouldn’t be news for August 27, 2010 including:
What? Still? Again?
Egg Recall Exposes FoxNews\\’ Anti-Government Bent
Religious Fitness? Is There A Semi-Annual FRT?
Because He Has So Much More To Give
Eeew… Smoking… Yuk!
No Neadline yet.
Yahoo Search - Powered By The Borg
Wow. Hayden Panettiere. Weird and Pointless.
Overpopulation A Myth?
Grand What-yon?
All the news that shouldn’t be news for August 20, 2010, including:
Drama Queen? Ya Think?!
Promise I won’t do what I’m already not doing!
Nun Calls AAA For Car Trouble
Heart Surgery.
LaHaye On Huckabee On Fox = Insanity Cubed
The Ground Zero Mosque Meltdown
There’s An App For THAT, Too!
Levi Can’t Keep His Levi’s On
What-boat? Power-boat?
Star Wars. Again.
All the news that shouldn’t be news for July 30, 2010, Including…
$2M For A Wedding?
Poll Questions Wander Into Weeds
Vatican to Gay Priests: GTFO
It’s A Video Game.
Is Jersey Shore The Problem?
Required National Service
Kepler Smacks Down God Again
Chevy’s 4-Passenger Locomotive
Have You Ever Wanted To Run For Office?
Jailbreaking Legal - In The Nerdy Sense
…and much more!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for July 23, 2010
Moving On?
BREAKING NEWS: Iraq Not Connected To 9/11
Ted Haggard Is Back! Oh, Good.
America’s Wacky Third Party
More Family Values From The House Of Gibson
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Aliens Relieved: Jobs Admits Being Human
Non-Story Continues To Grip America
Oh, To Be Brought Down By A Craigslist Ad.
BP Can’t Stop Shooting Itself In The Foot
…and much, much more!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for Jult 16, 2010
Time For A Career Change?
Michael Steele Still Has A Job
Robert Schuller Retiring
Alleged Wife-Beater, Anti-Semite. What\\’s Not To Love?
Last Airbender = FAIL
Corporate Spin Control
A Less-Than-Stellar Showing
Girl Taken In By Douche-Bag, Dumped. This is news?
Adulteress Gone To Dogs, Claims Cousin
Vuvuzelas Silenced. Permanently? One can only hope!
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.