What are you listening to?

[Josephus]

King Crimson. Live in Mexico

Are you going to see them when they play here in Toronto?

Not this time. I saw them two years ago at Massey Hall, and that was fantastic. But they're playing the Budweiser stage this time around which is not as intimate. Are you going?

I am. I've never seen them live.

They're putting on an amazing show, with a great setlist that encompasses their entire spectrum so you won't be disappointed. Like I said i saw them recently with a similar setting at a smaller venue, so that' why I'm skipping it this time around.

[Malthus]

They're putting on an amazing show, with a great setlist that encompasses their entire spectrum so you won't be disappointed. Like I said i saw them recently with a similar setting at a smaller venue, so that' why I'm skipping it this time around.

I'm looking forward to it. 

Another band I'm hoping to see live is Flogging Molly.

[garbon]

Alanis Morissette - Forgiven

[viper37]

The Agonist - In Vertigo

Probably their best song so far.

[Malthus]

Saw Flogging Molly last night at the Echo Beach stage - they played an incredible set. Some classics I never thought I'd hear live - Another Bag of Bricks, Saints and Sinners, Float; plus some off their recent album - like Crushed.

I was joking with my wife that maybe this time they would play Another Bag of Bricks; then they actually did. That alone made my night.

With some inadvertent pyrotechnics from the weather - as their set ended, lightning lit up the sky. Which was too bad as they were co-headlining with Social Distortion, which was cancelled due to weather.

I wasn't too upset - I got my money's worth and more already.

The obligatory cell phone photo:

[The Brain]

No pic of the flogging?

[Admiral Yi]

Is the dude in the white's head as ginormous as it appears?

[frunk]

Mission of Burma - ONoffON

[The Brain]

Ghost - Kiss The Go-Goat

[The Brain]

Ghost - Mary On A Cross

[The Brain]

I love these new Ghost songs.

[Eddie Teach]

Kiss the Shitgoat?

[The Brain]

Kiss the Shitgoat?

If only.

[Malthus]

Saw King Crimson live - it was great. Three drum sets, lots of improvisational jazz-like sets, plus of course the usuals like Court of the Crimson King and 21st Century ... .

Also played Discipline, one of my favorite pieces.

My wife did not go - she's not a fan.

It is interesting just how different the experience of the live music I've seen recently has been. All were great bands, but they could not be more different.

I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and that show was like being initiated into some weird cross between rock and roll and a particularly sleazy yet effective evangelist preacher's cult; he kept inviting audience members onto the stage to feel him up, while singing about sin and regret. It was odd to say the least.

I saw Flogging Molly, and that was just pure energy - spent the entire show jumping up and down, left sweaty and sore but happy.

I was King Crimson, and they literally did not acknowledge that they were playing for an audience at all - to a degree that was amusing. Like, they were performing sound tests for their instruments and gradually they just started playing. The music was often like a soundtrack to an action movie filmed in an insane asylum - my one complaint is that I'm not musician enough to understand what they were doing. It often seemed that they were doing some musically very clever things, playing in different time signatures and stuff, but that went straight over my head - it's like watching people playing a particularly clever game of chess when you don't know the rules.

[Savonarola]

RIP Ric Ocasek; the first album I ever bought was "Heartbeat City."   

I didn't realize he was that old (75).  Paul McCartney is 77; I would have thought Ric was at least a decade younger, not two years.