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...but I still love 'em.
Last Friday I went with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
capricious_k, seathan, and digitaljenni to finally see Evanescence in concert. I say finally because the show was supposed to be months ago but got postponed when one of Evanescence's members quit abruptly. K and I had originally purchased the tickets to for our one year anniversary -- the canceling of the show was what brought about our Grand Canyon vacation.
We bumped intointernet_addict, tshuma, bk2w, and a host of other friends and acquaintances who were already in line, and we sat with them for the show in the general seating. We were pretty much the oldest people there. Never, ever before have I seen such a huge age range at a rock concert, and never, ever have I been to a show with so many teenagers. (Aside: why is heavy eye shadow the first makeup that teenage girls go for?) The first rock concerts I went to were Peter Gabriel and Yes shows where I was one of the youngest people there, so it was kind of strange to be on the other end of the age curve.
Two bands opened for Evanescence. Default is a jumped up garage band; they were technically good musicians, but they couldn't write songs or lyrics to save their lives. Learn some new cords, guys! The second band was Atomship, who were pretty good, and got half way into their set before they played a song that everybody recognized. "Oh, that band!"
Eventually Evanescence took the stage. I have mixed feelings about their performance. Their musicianship was good, and her voice is haunting and beautiful, and their songs continue to cut deep and bleed in a good way. But the guy on the mixing board was asleep or something 'cause the sound mix was way off -- I found I kept having to adjust my earplugs so that the high end didn't get muffled out. I was most disappointed by the "over produced" feeling I got from their performance; none of the other band members did any backup vocals, and almost all the synthesizer parts and backup vocals were piped in prerecorded. C'mon guys, you're not Milli Vanilli or something, play your own music and sing your own songs! At least hire an actual keyboard player to sit on stage to provide synths and atmospherics -- I've seen plenty of other bands do it all the time, and you can too!
Oh, also Evanescence should stick to their own tunes. I know they've only got the one album and they had to fill some time, but still. They played one Soundgarden song and one Smashing Pumpkins song, and they both sucked. I'm hopeful that Evanescence's sophomore effort will be as strong as their first album, but we'll have to wait and hear, I guess. Time will tell if they're a one-hit wonder band or if they'll have a lasting impact.
Last Friday I went with
capricious_k, seathan, and digitaljenni to finally see Evanescence in concert. I say finally because the show was supposed to be months ago but got postponed when one of Evanescence's members quit abruptly. K and I had originally purchased the tickets to for our one year anniversary -- the canceling of the show was what brought about our Grand Canyon vacation.We bumped into
internet_addict, tshuma, bk2w, and a host of other friends and acquaintances who were already in line, and we sat with them for the show in the general seating. We were pretty much the oldest people there. Never, ever before have I seen such a huge age range at a rock concert, and never, ever have I been to a show with so many teenagers. (Aside: why is heavy eye shadow the first makeup that teenage girls go for?) The first rock concerts I went to were Peter Gabriel and Yes shows where I was one of the youngest people there, so it was kind of strange to be on the other end of the age curve.Two bands opened for Evanescence. Default is a jumped up garage band; they were technically good musicians, but they couldn't write songs or lyrics to save their lives. Learn some new cords, guys! The second band was Atomship, who were pretty good, and got half way into their set before they played a song that everybody recognized. "Oh, that band!"
Eventually Evanescence took the stage. I have mixed feelings about their performance. Their musicianship was good, and her voice is haunting and beautiful, and their songs continue to cut deep and bleed in a good way. But the guy on the mixing board was asleep or something 'cause the sound mix was way off -- I found I kept having to adjust my earplugs so that the high end didn't get muffled out. I was most disappointed by the "over produced" feeling I got from their performance; none of the other band members did any backup vocals, and almost all the synthesizer parts and backup vocals were piped in prerecorded. C'mon guys, you're not Milli Vanilli or something, play your own music and sing your own songs! At least hire an actual keyboard player to sit on stage to provide synths and atmospherics -- I've seen plenty of other bands do it all the time, and you can too!
Oh, also Evanescence should stick to their own tunes. I know they've only got the one album and they had to fill some time, but still. They played one Soundgarden song and one Smashing Pumpkins song, and they both sucked. I'm hopeful that Evanescence's sophomore effort will be as strong as their first album, but we'll have to wait and hear, I guess. Time will tell if they're a one-hit wonder band or if they'll have a lasting impact.
