Re: [bomp] Re: Little Steven Tour #2

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, October 23, 2006, at 01:06PM, <hoodoo3005@aol.com> wrote:

>Like I was telling somebody else...I like the Romantics, but  I recall 
>them being pleasant, but not essential (sorta like Greg Kihn). 
  They had some great songs back then, but when they came out with "Talking In Your Sleep", well...Not a biggie by me.  But listen to some of their early records and you'll hear some killer stuff.

 They 
>musta been through some hard times or something, because they roared 
>back into the 2000's kicking ass left and right! This is the second 
>time I've seen them in the last 2-3 years and both times I was like: 
>"wow, is that the nice-guy power-pop band I remember from the 
>eighties??" Thumbs up, all the way...
  Yeah, they really come out swinging.

>They didn't seem to burn with the intensity I wanted.  One friend said
>the band reminded him of a bunch of guys you find working in a suburban
>guitar store. >>
>
>I got that vibe, too. Yes, I heard the story about how they bombed at 
>Cavestomp, so I didn't quite know what to expect. You can tell the guys 
>have learned their lesson, re: who their current fans are. The 
>keyboardist was playing a 1960's combo organ,
  Yeah, a red Farfisa Combo Compact (just like the one in Tommy Lasorda's post-season baseball commercials, except in those I think it's just a prop), but the guy also plays a huge-ass modern Yamaha Motif workstation thingy.

 and even though the band 
>looked like an arena-rock group from 1982, you could tell they were 
>listening a little closer to the old Dunwich-label records. It still 
>had the suburban-guitar-store stank, but at least this time the SOK 
>sounded like they had half a clue. 
  Well put.

>I liked the show for what it was, but a surprising number of people 
>hated it
  I thought it was much better than Cavestomp '97, but...Like I said, you put it quite well above.

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