Re: [MMouse]: show at the blind pig

[Ryan Morgan]

I too was at the Modest Mouse show at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday night.  I'm not the fratty guy with the Kentucky Elliott T-shirt, though.  I had on a red Adidas hat, a navy blue Hum T-shirt, khaki cargo shorts.   The Blind Pig sucked as a concert venue.  It was very small, the stage was only one or two feet higher than the floor, and it was full of smoke.  Plus my ticket said that the show was supposed to start at 9:30 p.m., but it didn't actually start until about 11:00 p.m.  And the opening band, Califone, really sucked.  They were the most boring band I have ever heard.   But Modest Mouse put on a decent show.  They sounded really good.  I didn't know if Isaac would be able to consistently sound like he does on the albums, but he pulled it off.  Their performance was pretty boring to watch, though.  For the most part, they just stood there and played.  Isaac moved around a little bit.   When Isaac sang, the way his head moved reminded me of what the Canadians looked like on the South Park movie.   I didn't recognize Jeremiah Green or Eric Judy.  Jeremiah has longer hair than what I've seen in pictures and Eric has some facial hair.  They all walked past me at one point, before the concert began, but I only recognized Isaac.  There was also another guitar player, but I don't know who he is.  Does anyone know?  Isaac said his name, I think, but the acoustics and the sound system weren't very good.   ~Ryan   -----Original Message----- From: Rose Furst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 3:51 PM Subject: [MMouse]: show at the blind pig hey!  i was at the blind pig in ann arbor on monday night and i'm wondering if anyone else on the list was there too...i'm specifically looking for a rather fratty (but fun!) guy named dave who was wearing a kentucky elliott t-shirt and wanted to give me his yellow buffallo shirt...note on the show itself:  amazing...i think the best show i've been to... i know i'm probably going to get torn down by some "indier-than-thou" fan who feels the need to critique everybody's opinion on shows for saying that, but the show rocked...i didn't get the set list but they played dramamine, trucker's atlas, trailer trash, i came as a rat, paper thin walls, cities made of ashes, crazy gnome, polar opposites, broke, cowboy dan,  doin the cockroach and some other shit that i can't remember becuase i was going crazy, and just when i thought the show was over and there was no chance of an encore they came back out and played custom concern, breakthrough, all night diner, tundra/desert and...yeah.  i hope someone who actually wrote down the set list will post it... that's enough outta me, i guess, thanks for listening, surfer rosa ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com