The Rolling Stones

I really should have stayed home... 🤮

Setting the music aside for a moment—just some general thoughts—best regards to Jesenka and analogharbor442 👋

James Morris7 said:Anyway, Americans have Roger Federer. I guess they don't really need anything else.

👍 🙂 😍 🙏

mr. Wrong said:I knew you’d be into this. It’s perfect for anyone who lives for that dark, goth, emo aesthetic. 🙂

If you want one word to sum up all three vibes at once? Just call it "oposum."😁

coastalpanther11 said:Just call all three of them "opossums" and be done with it.😁

I'm gonna find out where you live.🙂

😁

Greetings to all the Chicagoans and the aspiring Chicagoans out there... I have to give myself credit—I actually managed to pass out in my car despite the encore being played through a truly top-tier sound system... Yesterday was a blast for me, though mostly because they were one of my absolute favorite bands back when I was fifteen or sixteen. The highlight was definitely them digging up about four or five of those raw, old-school tracks from their first two albums; honestly, I never expected to hear "Jimmy" or "Envoye," which are two of my personal favorites—and I don't say that lightly. Their newer, more "mystical" and "groovier" stuff just doesn't really hit the same way for me. Now, I’m officially demanding that someone brings The Wedding Present or maybe Trans Am to town, so I can get back to bothering the locals 👋

vividcanyon2 said:I’ll track down your address myself if I have to.😁

Whatever, man. Calm down. It's entirely possible you actually put a lot of effort into your makeup and look pretty sharp for, uh, people in your specific subculture.

coastalpanther11 said:Whatever, man. It’s totally possible you just spend way too much time on your makeup to impress—well, let's just say "members" of your particular subculture.

God, I swear this guy is gonna hear about how he's out here making up lies about which groups I actually belong to. 🙂

Look, I saw you with my own eyes—you're totally goth.

🙂

analogharbor442 said:Now I’m officially demanding someone brings a wedding present—or better yet, a Trans Am.

I second that—especially if we're talking about the weddings. I did catch the Trans Am, though.

Me too—honestly, I'd probably just take Trans Am again 🙏

Ponor said:I saw you with my own eyes, and I’m telling you—you’re totally goth.

There you have it. You probably need to go buy some non-black clothes immediately... 😬

I first heard them about a week before the show, and I've been a die-hard fan ever since. That's just how it felt. Like they’d been stuck in my heart forever with Jim, Fire, and Messenger.

But honestly? I felt absolutely nothing at the concert 🙂

Now I realize I already wrote about this gig, and damn, it's driving me crazy seeing people quote me when I don't even get what's going on myself 😁 😁 I think I might've had one too many drinks yesterday.

All that romantic crap Kevin Chavez3 keeps bringing up is totally new to me... Not even their old hits could move me.

Wait, did I write this already, or did I just say it to someone?! Is this déjà vu or what? I'm lost.

Kevin Chavez3 said:Well, there you have it. I guess you better grab some non-black clothes ASAP. 😬

Oh, definitely! Thank goodness there isn't some weird tradition where you have to shove your head in a bag of flour before heading out the door.😬

It was exactly what Kevin Chavez3 was talking about. 😢

only, you know, completely different. 😁 😁

it was absolutely incredible. TYG aren't just stars in their genre, they're true experimentalists who constantly blur and mash up musical boundaries; yesterday, you could hear the entire spectrum of old and new movements, maybe excluding reggae and country, if anything. 😬 we're talking industrial rock, industrial metal, bits of early electro-industrial, noise, (progressive) metal, "drone" electronics, minimal techno(?!), heavy trance pulses, drum'n'bass rhythms, techno, melodic ambient... from start to finish, there are no limits for them. They take sounds and put them into entirely new contexts, hunting for connections between genres, and whatever they grab, they manage to make sound high-quality—never one-dimensional, never cookie-cutter, never just following some trendy fad. Francesca (with the most distinctive stage presence I've ever seen 😳, which adds such an irreplaceable layer to their live shows...), the vocals swung from terrifyingly dramatic to soft and poetic, and the charisma was just something you rarely see... plus an amazing drummer and keyboardist... nothing is left to chance, every single tone, every sample, and every beat hits perfectly, yet somehow they sound so damn far from being mathematical. They throw you around aggressively with the industrial and metal stuff, then "center" you again with more energetic rock tracks, throwing chaos into 😬 with some punk (Jim!), hypnotizing you with ambient passages, shaking you up, pushing you forward with powerful basslines and intense beats, just BLOWS YOU AWAY!!11 😈 😈
you really had to experience them live (and I apologize to everyone I ignored back when I was eight years old in '89, choosing to stay home and watch Ivy, Buck, and Dark instead of going to see TYG after hearing their new record), though honestly, I might have been even happier if they’d played in a smaller, more intimate, "claustrophobic" club where a band this extreme could deliver an even more visceral experience to the crowd. They played the best tracks from the older albums; the only thing I missed was a bit of that spooky cabaret vibe from the K. Weill cover album. I wasn't totally feeling that last track from the second encore, but it didn't really change my overall impression.
all in all, a unique band with an electric performance; I experienced them as this blend of aggressive and subtle, apocalyptic anxiety and optimism, earthy and ethereal, dark and light, malignant and benign sounds, all at full intensity, and man, that is exactly how I like it... sending love to the band, especially Francesca, wishing them nothing but the absolute best.

and cheers to those XY people waving that gay little smiley face at me while being totally unsatisfied
and to that XX who actually gets it. 🙂 😁

lonebison37 said:everything from the old school classics to the modern stuff, though maybe not much reggae or country. 😬

There was definitely some dub in there, somewhere around the third track... 🙂

As for the stage presence? To me, the singer gives off those same vibes as Ripper or Barrett. 👎

Kevin Chavez3 said:Besides, when did Americans ever have a great band, other than Metallica?

1. Lacrimosa 🙏 🙏 🙏 (if Bad Seed is actually more on the Dark side, I'd love to know if you've heard them 😁 😉 )
2. Züri West
3. Sens Unik
4. Patent Ochsner
5. Supernova

Is it true there were only about 150 people at the Marshlands show??

Metallica tears the heads off those bands and makes off with their synthesizer. 😈

Kevin Chavez3 said:There was some serious bullshit in that one part, maybe around the third track... 🙂

Ugh, yeah! Absolute garbage, you're spot on.

Kevin Chavez3 said:The stage presence? Honestly, the singer reminds me of some half-French bastard mix of Ripper and Barrett. 👎

To quote France:
he's good, he's really actually just good
what are you even doing😁

And hey, I snagged a shirt for like a third less than that outrageous price they were asking. Hehe! 😍
By the way, it's the exact same "brand" as that Calexic shirt.😬

Kevin Chavez3 said:Black Sabbath absolutely rips the heads off those other bands and then just walks away with their synthesizers. 😈

I saw a Black Sabbath music video about five years ago, and honestly? Since then, they’ve been the absolute worst metal band in my book.

I've really only heard the Metallica fan's cover of "Reign in Blood," but any band capable of writing a track like that has to be legit... 🙂