Saturday, September 16, 2006
ACL 2006: Day Two
So me and Maggie and our friend Nicole are standing in the near-dark watching Austin band Explosions in the Sky and this hippy-looking guy with no shirt walks past and stands about three feet in front of us. I notice him briefly and refocus my attention on the rock music at hand. The Maggie says something like, "That guy is taking off his clothes." Well, what do you say to that? I look at the guy again, and sure enough, his pants are around his ankles and his boxers are low enough to display about one third of his crack. Our first thought is, "this guy is drunk and getting ready to pee right there."
Wrong.
He drops his boxer shorts all the way and waddles, full-frontal through the crow to this couple and grabs the guy's wrist as the guy backs away. By this point we are all enthralled. A naked hippie! Clearly on drugs! What the hell is he doing? Does he know that couple? It was fascinating. Eventually the guy, I guess, coaxes the naked man to put his pants back on, and the naked man disappears. Leaving the stage area, we passed him. He was lying in the fetal position on the ground.
Other than that, we saw some great bands. TV on the Radio was fantastic. Maggie really liked What Made Milwaukee Famous.
Ben Kweller was enjoyable, but he got this outrageous nosebleed, blood was all over his guitar and the piano and it just kept coming. He asked the audience for a tampon, and by god somebody delivered, but it fell out after about half a song and, since the blood just kept coming, he had to leave the stage.
Calexico was a fun concert band. Although, in concert they were like a crazy exploded mariachi band and on their website they sound like folk. Go figure.
The Shins were great. They were a little more rocking live.
Aimee Mann was a little disappointing. She toned it all down too much. And Massive Attack was sort of like listening to Massive Attack with lots of stage lighting. Willie Nelson did exactly what you might imagine.
Then there was...
Kings of Leon. This band sucks a mighty jug of suck, and dumb-looking people sing along. Screw you Kings of Leon.
More tomorrow!
Wrong.
He drops his boxer shorts all the way and waddles, full-frontal through the crow to this couple and grabs the guy's wrist as the guy backs away. By this point we are all enthralled. A naked hippie! Clearly on drugs! What the hell is he doing? Does he know that couple? It was fascinating. Eventually the guy, I guess, coaxes the naked man to put his pants back on, and the naked man disappears. Leaving the stage area, we passed him. He was lying in the fetal position on the ground.
Other than that, we saw some great bands. TV on the Radio was fantastic. Maggie really liked What Made Milwaukee Famous.
Ben Kweller was enjoyable, but he got this outrageous nosebleed, blood was all over his guitar and the piano and it just kept coming. He asked the audience for a tampon, and by god somebody delivered, but it fell out after about half a song and, since the blood just kept coming, he had to leave the stage.
Calexico was a fun concert band. Although, in concert they were like a crazy exploded mariachi band and on their website they sound like folk. Go figure.
The Shins were great. They were a little more rocking live.
Aimee Mann was a little disappointing. She toned it all down too much. And Massive Attack was sort of like listening to Massive Attack with lots of stage lighting. Willie Nelson did exactly what you might imagine.
Then there was...
Kings of Leon. This band sucks a mighty jug of suck, and dumb-looking people sing along. Screw you Kings of Leon.
More tomorrow!
# posted by Michael : 8:45 PM
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Oh Michael, I forgot that you lived in Austin. I was at ACL. Actually, I was at the Explosions in the Sky concert, but I didn't see the naked man. Did you happen to catch Ghostland Observatory? If you have ample time to mess around on the computer and are at all interested, there are clips of their show at ACL on YouTube. It's the really hot girly man in the tight pink shirt and braids dancing crazy. They are playing in Austin again sometime in October. Not to be missed!
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