The wife and I saw Spoon last night at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. One word: amazing. They started the set with "The Beast and Dragon at Dawn" off the new LP and ended with Britt Daniels on guitar playing around with the feedback from a nearby monitor. Throughout it was loud, action, rock and roll. The crowd was really into the show and the venue was incredible! I would like to say that made up for the opening act (it did), but American Music Club was a bit off. First off, they were completely too mellow to open for Spoon and second, the lead singer couldn't get his monitor to work so his mood turned sour the longer they played. He went from introducing songs like, "and this is a song I wrote about a friend of mine who..." to "here's another song." Bastard. Oh, well. Side note. I felt a bit old standing in line before the show. A couple of teens were behind the wife and I talking about how they didn't go see the latest Weezer show, because they had, "like, sold out." However, they did say they would have loved to have seen them during the Blue Album tour ten years ago. "How cool would that have been," one squeaky voiced teen said. "Very cool." I said. I was there. They were in diapers. Oh well. Age always rears its ugly head.
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