Metro Shuffle: Beardfish, Weezer
Posted: June 27, 2009 Filed under: Concerts, Listening | Tags: Beardfish, Liz Phair, Steely Dan, Weezer 3 Comments »
Beardfish – NEARfest 2009 via Snidegrrl on Flickr
Before getting to those fine bands, I just noticed, via JamBase, that Steely Dan is playing six nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC at the end of July and early August.
Six nights! And there’s a good chance I’ll be in NYC for at least one of them. They’re apparently doing “special setlists.” Aja on on 7/28/09, for example.
Special setlists seem to be a big draw. Mpomy, Sturj, and I saw Primus do “Seas of Cheese” back in 2004. On August 28 last year, the night Barack Obama gave his nomination acceptance speech in Denver, I saw Liz Phair at 930 perform a special setlist: “Exile in Guyville” in its entirety. “You won’t miss Barack,” she said that night. “Not on my watch.”
Anyway, back to Beardfish. I suppose this isn’t surprising, given that they’re the great Swedish hope for prog, but when I listen to the band I get distinct Yes flashes, and it brings me back to high school. For some reason, I think of listening to Yes on Amtrak, going up to Massachusetts. I thought it was cool to stare out the window and listen to “Heart of the Sunrise.“
Speaking of trains, Beardfish’s “Into the Night” was one of the tunes I hit on the Metro.
The other song was Weezer’s “The World Has Turned and Left me Here.” I’m going to nominate that record, “Weezer,” for an award under “greatest rock records of all time.”
By the way, Weezer is playing this summer in the greater Washington area, as part of a festival with an absolutely insane lineup of acts. I don’t think I’m going to try for tickets for that one, though.
That’s always the conundrum with festivals. I would love to see The Hold Steady, but it’s a long day of music and, potentially, a lot of dreck.
Just after I read your comment, I spotted this:
Phish 3-Day Fest: Save The Date: 10/30-11/1 http://tinyurl.com/o2hvko (via @jambase) 1 minute ago
Odds of my attending an event such as this: 1.4%. Intriguing nonetheless.
Oh hey! Thanks for crediting my photo. I don’t know how I didn’t see this before. I’ve been relistening to all my Beardfish this week and was thinking about album art so I googled, and lo, I found this!