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Living Colour's sold-out show at Double Door was a marathon-length set that proved this hard rock / jazz / funk / kitchen sink quartet can still deliver a ferocious show over 20 years into their career. Singer Corey Glover, guitar whiz Vernon Reid, dextrous drummeer Will Calhoun, and swooping bassist Doug Wimbish crammed in amongst the piles of cables, pedals and gear onstage to pluck a set touching upon every stage in their career, as well as offering a preview of tracks from their latest album The Chair In The Doorway. All the material was met with an enthusiastic crowd response, with the audience matching Glover's singing and at times providing complete verses and choruses, much to the band's obvious delight. Our own personal highpoint of the show was the incredibly moving delivery of "Open Letter (To a Landlord)" that began with a swooping gospel vocal from Glover before the band descended into an impassioned heavy groove. Sunday night's show wasn't a band trying to reclaim former glories, it was a band still fully in its prime.
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Duh dunt dunt crash!
Ahem.
My very first concert was seeing Living Colour at the Metro in fall of '93. My cousin was their manager at the time, and got tickets & backstage passes for my brother and me. But it was a school night and Dad was picking us up at a set time, so we never got to go backstage...
That was a great show. If I remember correctly, they brought in a PA that they set up in front of Metro's system that night and blew the power almost immediately.
It's a horrible shame that rock 'n' roll with balls has gone by the wayside, and the proof being that these maestros were playing the Double Door.
Aw, buck up, Mucky. There are still a few band out there with operational testicles. TV on the Radio turns it up loud every now and then. And a few more...
No, that band is shit too.
Well, you're just wrong about that. But, I'm taking your opinion with a grain of salt there, Noel Gallagher.
Well, share with us your opinions on "bands with balls". So we can pick them apart one by one, naturally...
I'd much rather pick apart your New Millennium eyeliner-and-keyboards indie junk. All that mumbled whining about how-clever-we-are.
Obviously you've never see or heard of "TV..." if you think they are "eyeliner and keyboards" and whining, so you probably should refrain from having an opinion of them until you do.
TV On The Radio
Educate yourself.
Living Colour was both the one of the best and worst concert experiences of my life. Their 2001 gig at Metro had enough testosterone to put hair on Mucky's Noel Gallagher photo (and he laments rock with no balls with that photo?).
In '93 I had backstage passes for their show at the Boathouse in Norfolk, VA. But I was kicked out for breaking a guy's nose in the mosh pit (he was taking liberties with others).
You weren't listening to me. Re-read my original comment. I said rock with balls is in a sad state if such a great band like Living Colour was only playing the Double Door. That sound of theirs should be filling up the United Center, but alas Stealth and the like are too busy listening to Fishbone Redux.
ah, you're a riot, muck. That would actually be funny if I hadn't been listening to (yes) the original Fishbone and the original lineup of Living Colour when you were still practicing the moonwalk in your parent's basement. I'll tell you about hanging out at Tut's some day when you're old enough.
Wonderwall, mucky? Now THERE'S a band with "balls". Man, gotta love musical "experts"
I am no expert, and neither are you. Nonetheless, you felt the need to boast about your musical tastes while bragging about schooling others for theirs. I've done neither. You are accusing others of the very thing you are doing (that's very Rush Limbaugh).
New millennium indie bands are whiny and have no balls.
I am no expert, and neither are you.
Good. Leave it at that. I never claimed to be. You, on the otherhand, declared all music other than what you like ball-less. That's being an "expert". Check yourself.
you felt the need to boast about your musical tastes
Really? You write "all indie music has no balls" which pretty much is boasting about your musical taste and knowledge. I write "well, I think X band is pretty good." You reply with "no, that band is shit too". Not "IMHO they are shit." You declare "They are shit."
But you're no expert, right?
Bottom like, fuck you and your perceived musical expertise. Your assesment of what is boasting is only trumped by your ignorant blanket statements about music. Only an idiot whitewashes an entire genre of music. And I'm not even an indie music fan. Go figure.
Let me ask you: do you make the same blanket assessments with people of different races/genders too?