![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribuI've got old.
Went to see Foreigner / Alice Cooper today (no, I have no idea why a double bill of those two!) .. I didn't really know much about Foreigner, apart from Cold as Ice and I Want to Know What Love Is, so I wasn't expecting much, but I actually enjoyed them. (And they even played those two, so I could even go "yay, I know this song!".)
Alice... hmm. The band was good. Very young and energetic. Which was really the problem, I think, as (a) Alice was not so young and energetic, (b) the band was LOUD and Alice was not, and (c) pretty much every song had either got a new and, well, energetic arrangement or had been sped up about five times compared to the studio versions, so... well, it's not necessarily a good thing when you go to see someone whose fan you've been for a good 20 years and can recognise about five songs after they've been played for a while and have a vague feeling about the rest that you should know them too, but when you can't make head or tails out of the lyrics and the music sounds different too... *sighs*
So we left before it was over. It sounded better outside the hall, to be honest, but it was a bit too cold to stand outside and listen. I think I'll do my future Alice listening from the CDs, preferably at very low volume.
So yes, I feel old. And quite deaf too, now. And a little disappointed, but I did get an enjoyable 1.5 hour show first, and there were bits of Alice I enjoyed... like him stabbing someone in the beginning and hitting band members with a crutch at some point.
Went to see Foreigner / Alice Cooper today (no, I have no idea why a double bill of those two!) .. I didn't really know much about Foreigner, apart from Cold as Ice and I Want to Know What Love Is, so I wasn't expecting much, but I actually enjoyed them. (And they even played those two, so I could even go "yay, I know this song!".)
Alice... hmm. The band was good. Very young and energetic. Which was really the problem, I think, as (a) Alice was not so young and energetic, (b) the band was LOUD and Alice was not, and (c) pretty much every song had either got a new and, well, energetic arrangement or had been sped up about five times compared to the studio versions, so... well, it's not necessarily a good thing when you go to see someone whose fan you've been for a good 20 years and can recognise about five songs after they've been played for a while and have a vague feeling about the rest that you should know them too, but when you can't make head or tails out of the lyrics and the music sounds different too... *sighs*
So we left before it was over. It sounded better outside the hall, to be honest, but it was a bit too cold to stand outside and listen. I think I'll do my future Alice listening from the CDs, preferably at very low volume.
So yes, I feel old. And quite deaf too, now. And a little disappointed, but I did get an enjoyable 1.5 hour show first, and there were bits of Alice I enjoyed... like him stabbing someone in the beginning and hitting band members with a crutch at some point.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:08 (UTC)So, what's the conclusion? Alice wasn't dead, but ought to have been?
no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:12 (UTC)The conclusion is that I wish he had bothered to sing too, if he was already here and all! I saw him about 7 years ago, too, and it was a far more enjoyable show then.
There are times when I enjoy listening to a good band, but with Alice, I actually like the songs (and not the endless guitar and drum solos, great as they were), so I'd have appreciated hearing a bit of singing too...
no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:14 (UTC)Er, yeah, that doesn't sound like a good thing at all. I'm sorry that it wasn't what you were hoping for.
no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:16 (UTC)Foreigner was big when I was in High School. I can't take bars anymore, too loud, can't talk.
no subject
Date: 2 December 2007 22:21 (UTC)I was thinking that if I want to go to a loud-ish concert again some day, I should get ear plugs. Or just stick to outdoor shows where the sound isn't quite so concentrated.