Sunday I went with Chris, Bernie, and Brian #2 to see Band of Horses. The openers were good, but as Chris put it, "it's like Sleepytime tea." So we left to get drinks at the Driskill for a bit. We only missed the first two songs of BoH. The show was great, I really like their sound. Of course, everyone freaked out during "the Funeral" because its the only song most people know -- they do only have one album. I enjoyed the rest of their show, but I was pretty exhausted from the weekend so we didnt stay for the entire encore. Stupid work at 8am.
And the lead singer very much resembled Kyle Melgaard.
Then Wendesday was Pete Yorn's acoustic show. Last time he was in Austin was 2003 and he played Stubb's outside -- and Chris unknowingly met him in the bathroom moments before he got on stage. This year, we got to the Parish just as he was strapping on his guitar. The thing with Pete Yorn is his albums can get annoying if you listen to them too often, but I love seeing him live. Those songs just sound a million times better!! And I do forget how many good songs he has. (maybe thats why his last studio album was called "Day I Forgot" !!) He started out playing all alone, but then brought out guys to play the keyboard, bass and drums. (Chris fell in love with Pete's $4000 keyboard.) And apparently my boys had actually spent an hour learning 5 of Pete's songs so they could go up on stage during the encore -- too bad all 5 songs were played during the first set!!!Where I ended up standing for most of the show made it enjoyable and miserable at the same time. I had a good vantage point of Pete and the other guys, but i was right at the aisle to the bathroom so I kept getting bumped. I guess I'm not intimidating enough, otherwise people would push me around so much. And the fat guy next to me was definately taking up more than his fair share of space. He seemed to think it was appropriate to put his ass into my hip for the 10 mins while he was guarding his friends' spots. I held my f***ing ground though and he eventually took his fat ass elsewhere.
We didnt go talk to Pete after the show, because we couldn't stop mocking him for when he stopped listening to the tune of his voice during "Come Back Home" in the encore -- sounded like a 13yr old boy at his bar mitzvah. But he did warn us that might happen before the song started. The moment I liked the most was during "Closet" when the crowd starting singing the chorus before he was ready but they just kept going...he turned to the bass player twice to say "this is so cool". He really loved the thrill of being on stage, and that is what makes me love going to live shows.
