Shiny.Toy.Guns.2012
@the.EchoPlex (L.A., CA)
Tuesday.October.23rd
KROQ nite at the plex. Weird. What is KROQ now? I stopped listening to that station in 92. Sometimes I'll sneak a peak to hear what they are playing and it's still...CRAP!
Long line to get in, but it moved quickly. Once inside, the place was packed. I have no idea if this is sold out. Never mind, yes it was.
MNDR...K!LLED !T, but the crowd was...D.E.A.D. Amanda Warner (Lead Singer) was pumping them up and it worked, but just for a small while. I loved her 80's Hip-Hop dance moves that she was doing. It reminded me of Salt-n-Pepa "Push It" video. Even though it was a solo performance, MNDR was giving it her all and I loved it. She had my attention from the start. I wondered if Madonna got her initials from her new album from Amanda?
Shiny.Toy.Guns. played a twenty song set that was pretty good. They played some cover songs (Depeche Mode "Stripped" of course) and new stuff from the new album that came out today, titled, III (do you think they got the idea from Crystal Castles?).
They played "Le Disko" towards the middle of the show and closed it with two of my favorite songs, "Fading Listening" (I really LOVE that Fleetwood Mac sounding song) and "You Are the One". Perfect! What a way to end this night.
Besides, Carah Faye Charnow (Lead Singer) throwing her mic on the ground really hard (SO PUNK ROCK) for not working during the opening song, this was, pretty...
\m/ - AWESUM!
Les Savy Fav
@EchoPlex
Friday.January.28.2011
It's great to see that there is a line to get in for Les Savy Fav. The last time I saw them, they opened up for Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2003 at The Fonda. That's when Karen O would always be drunk on stage. Ahhhhh, the good times. From what I remember from that concert, they where...CRAZY, well the lead singer (Tim Harrington) is the crazy one. Sure enough, he still is.
Besides them putting on a good show, Tim is still the person to watch. He came out wearing a Pope hat and a wig (which I thought he grown his hair out). Tim slowly took off the hat and his wig between songs. My eyes where on him at all times. He went into the crowd maybe four times. He climbed the rafters and went all the way up to the pillar's of the EchoPlex ceiling. He was singing up there. Then, he decided to lay on it. Funny guy. Tim came down from it, but at first, I thought he was gonna jump. Thank God he didn't. Imagine if he did. He would of injured some fans.
It was interesting to watch his bandmates as well. How do they put up with his craziness? He kissed his guitar player (just a peck) and he lifted this guys shirt and made sounds on his belly. He is so comfortable with his sexuality, but I don't think he is gay. I think it's all for show.
Right before the encore, they played there hit song, "Let's Get Out Of Here" (which was on my top 50 songs of 2010). It's so great that they are now getting notice since they been around for quite awhile. Just recently I heard that song on TV. You know what, I am all for it. Who cares. Do what you gotta do to get notice. Who listens to radio anyway? I don't. I stopped listening to KROQ when they started playing Metal and the same songs where played every two hours. Plus, all the great DJ's left that broke bands.
When Les Savy Fav came back from there encore, Tim broke out with some coochie cutters. Hot! The crazy thing that I did not want to see was one of his nut sack's. He was shoving the mic down his shorts and he pulled the wire and he exposed us with a nut. $H*T! That took the cake.
\m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ - Awesome!
