don't get me wrong, i love to go to concerts where dudes fiddle with a laptop or spin encoded control discs.. what the hell is happening to real live music?

that's why i decided to go check out Sinead O' Connor. i wouldn't consider myself a huge Sinead fan (however, I Do Not Want is brilliant), but I figure if you've stuck around for this long, you must be doing something right... and that reggae album was pretty good. I went with Tony (the most undercover Sinead fan around) and we had an incredible time, slamming vodkas and beers, watching Sinead fans battle each other over noise level (rowdier fans would yell during songs while older fans would tell them to "shut the fuck up"... who's the realer fan?)... cool experience... i denounce my street cred yo.

later in the week, i went to go see Morrissey at the Hammerstein... i caught him on the last of 5 nights there. observations:

1) this tour boasted that he'd play some of his greatest hits... he played close to 10 Smiths tracks including: Shoplifters, Girlfriend in a Coma, Stretch Out & Wait, How Soon Is Now, Death of A Disco Dancer (best song of the show), Please Please Please, and others.

2) people are obviously fed up with Moz's psychobabble, everytime he'd go off into his unfounded rants (Rolling Stone has never featured an artist of significance on its cover), fans would just yell back and tell him to shut the fuck up and sing...

3) what's up with his weird mic whipping thing?

4) in general Moz fans aren't that attractive, i forgot that only nerds, fags, skaters and outcasts listened in high school.

5) the traditional encore, where fans try to jump on stage and hug the dude might be the best part of the show. before the encore even began, bouncers were getting in 3 point stances on the stage. about 30-40 people tried, only 3 got sacks...

6) sadly nothing from Queen Is Dead, and he still keeps it real by doing a 6-7 song set of his new stuff, that no one cares about, except those people who "found" Moz a couple years ago...

7) roc + woodman, this picture is for you... yes, Moz still takes off his shirt... he's kinda jacked now, weird...

ps. that video struggle put up is awesome, especially that second song by Human Race... if anyone has that record/cassette, give me a shout...