They Might Be Giants

[akaihyo]

or even larger. doji_kumoko and I got to see They Might Be Giants in concert here in Athens last night (our first Athens concert!). Met up with coffeebadass and robotazalea to go. TMBG were playing at the Georgia Theater and, wow, the acoustics combined with the volume was painful, luckily coffeebadass (experienced Athens concert goer that he is) brought earplugs for everyone.

The show was fun, they were supporting their new album, The Else but played a lot of classics too including: Istanbul, Fingertips and Particle Man. The only song I would have liked to hear that they did not play was Ana Ng. But their show was fun, the music was good (if to loud) and a good time was had by all. However it did not end until 12:30 am so we were pretty zoned by the time we got home.

Comments

[xuande.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tried going to a Cowboy Mouth concert at the Georgia Theater once. Everyone I was with seemed to enjoy it, but I found it a terrible, painful experience. I eventually figured out that if I just stood outside\ on the street, I could hear just fine. Indeed, I found the doors filtered out a lot of the low-delay echo (insufficiently loud) and distortion noise (too high-pitched), actually improving the sound quality.

I'm told there's supposed to be an uplifting feeling of unity at rock concerts. I think instead that most people are just insane.

[coffeebadass.livejournal.com]

you never go to a club show in athens without earplugs, period, the end. TMBG was one of the quieter ones that I have witnessed :) Jucifer can remove the upper portion of your skull at 50 paces.

[xuande.livejournal.com]

There's something wrong with that picture. Instead of requiring everyone to bring earplugs, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to not have the music so loud in the first place? Not to mention the great improvement it'd make in the quality of the sound.

[coffeebadass.livejournal.com]

That's just crazy talk.