"I love it, but I hate the taste"
Oct. 15th, 2007 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThanks to Bitty and Bubblebabble, I ended up at a Five O'Clock Shadow concert at Ryle's (I seem to go to the local jazz club for a cappella only...) Saturday night.
The opener was a guy on guitar who played music that was pleasant, but didn't particularly grab me. I did like seeing him use a looping thingie to build more layered sound (How common are these now? This is the second time I've seen one this fall, and I've never seen them before.) with a background tune, beat, and vocals. He seemed an odd choice of opener for a group that does wholly different kinds of music, come to think of it.
The main group was a lot of fun, singing both covers and their own stuff. Their energy was great, and the music made me want to dance (toe-tapping is just not the same). There was more use of the microphone technical options than I prefer, but I'm a bit of a purist. The first set was mostly music I wasn't familiar with (see post subject line lyric), while the second half was almost all known (including a bunch of 80s stuff :-). Both halves had wholly 'instrumental' pieces, the first one just percussion... a wide range of percussion, too, considering it was one guy. One guy wearing an odd sort of collar, which I figured out afterward was some kind of technological something, since when he took it off, there were wires. Amplifying something in the throat, perhaps?
They had the power of improv patter (or is that just good stage presence?), having a bunch of running gags, plus continued requests for updates on the Sox game (two of the guys wore Sox shirts), which got a little old for this non-sports-fan, but whatever. Oh, and in the second half, during one of the few songs that the percussionist was the lead singer, he meandered through the audience, singing to me for a bit. Sweet :-)
The opener was a guy on guitar who played music that was pleasant, but didn't particularly grab me. I did like seeing him use a looping thingie to build more layered sound (How common are these now? This is the second time I've seen one this fall, and I've never seen them before.) with a background tune, beat, and vocals. He seemed an odd choice of opener for a group that does wholly different kinds of music, come to think of it.
The main group was a lot of fun, singing both covers and their own stuff. Their energy was great, and the music made me want to dance (toe-tapping is just not the same). There was more use of the microphone technical options than I prefer, but I'm a bit of a purist. The first set was mostly music I wasn't familiar with (see post subject line lyric), while the second half was almost all known (including a bunch of 80s stuff :-). Both halves had wholly 'instrumental' pieces, the first one just percussion... a wide range of percussion, too, considering it was one guy. One guy wearing an odd sort of collar, which I figured out afterward was some kind of technological something, since when he took it off, there were wires. Amplifying something in the throat, perhaps?
They had the power of improv patter (or is that just good stage presence?), having a bunch of running gags, plus continued requests for updates on the Sox game (two of the guys wore Sox shirts), which got a little old for this non-sports-fan, but whatever. Oh, and in the second half, during one of the few songs that the percussionist was the lead singer, he meandered through the audience, singing to me for a bit. Sweet :-)