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I can’t believe I never heard about this. I’m so mad.

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there’s no words for how awesome that clip is.

david cross
j mascis
guitar hero

BARNBURNER

I’m going to post this clip every time someone on the net says, "guitar hero is lame, pick up a real guitar losers". If J can play it and have a big smile on his face, then nobody can ever say anything against it.

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Uh, well, what do you want me to say? I was at the Calgary show. It went pretty much exactly like all the other recent reviews.

It was my first time seeing them. They weren’t as loud as all you guys keep saying they are, but I’d wear plugs if I saw them again.

Lou came out to do an acoustic set. The crowd didn’t seem to recognize him, so I said "Hi Lou!" and a few people woke up. Then he stopped the first song to give some guys crap for talking. Then he stopped it again to laugh at himself for stopping it. Then after the first song he told a story about making some girl cry when he gave her crap for talking.

So don’t talk during Lou’s acoustic set!

That’s pretty much how his set went. He’d stop the song to crack jokes or make comments any time. It was a nice set, I liked it.

Awesome Color came out. They were noisy and the singer/guitar player was drunk as fuck. He kept saying "YEEEEAAAAAH" and quoting Pootie Tang nonsensical phrases between songs. I liked their set. Even though they played one song twice. In a row. They made a lot of racket, which endeared them to me. Though looking at them made me feel goddamn ancient. The drummer almost pushed her drumset off the stage with the PURE FURY of her ROCK.

But I kinda like everybody when the kick drum is pounding in my chest.

Then Dino came out and were Dino. J seemed distant, Murph seemed businesslike, Lou seemed to be having fun. You couldn’t hear J’s vocals a lot of the time, and whenever he said something between songs nobody was expecting it and everyone was like, "huh?" Lou started to comment on the pot smoke in the air, but J squashed him with some noodling.

The songs off Beyond were some of the best of the night. They played like half the album, which doesn’t bother me a bit as it’s a great album. I’m not a setlist kind of guy. They played well, sounded good other than J’s vocals sometimes, and I had a great night. I don’t really have a lot to say about Dino’s performance as we’ve all seen the videos and stuff. It was exactly like that!

I just wish they’d played mountain man!

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