Fribootdayleg. Dave Bazan. Ben Gibbard. My Shitty Week.
I missed my bootleg friday last week. This week I thought I would tie up some loose ends, make up for a couple of missed posts, give you two great shows to chew on all weekend long, and generally do too much whiny bullshit emo blogging.
Here’s how the whole Amy Winehouse thing went down. I got down to the show before doors opened and the local news crew was there interviewing some girls that had made shirts begging for tickets. I spent a few minutes surveying the scene and realized tickets were going to be pretty hard to come by — nay, impossible to come by. Me and my date (we shall call her Scandy) decided to just grab some food and try to luck into tickets later. After a few drinks, some billiards, and burgers, we headed back to the venue. No tickets. More people looking for them. I got a report that there had been some sold for $80 a few minutes before — far more than I was willing to pay. I decided I’d try and sweet talk the girl in the box office, walked past security, past the ticket taker, and up to the box office. I realized I was 90% of the way in, so I gave Scandi a head nod trying to get her to follow my lead. I talked to the ticket girl, realized that Scandi hadn’t made it in so I went back outside looking for her. Where was she? Oh yeah — she had followed me and also made it in and now I blew it. There was to be no Winehouseness for us.
We ended up next door and saw three surprisingly good folk acts. (I’ll try to round up a post on them.) It was money much better spent. That was the highpoint of my week, it was bookended with an absolute nightmare of the remainder of the night and general weeklong crappiness. The weekend looks up, however.
The next night I was considering going to the Ben Gibbard/Dave Bazan show. I’ve been a Death Cab fan longer than you, and Pedro the Lion used to be one of my favorite bands. Suck it. I’m alright with that. It probably would have been the perfect show to attend to meet my future ex-girlfriend, but I was reluctant to go it alone and couldn’t find a companion. Of course I ended up finding a date but it was too late and I already had other plans.
That leads us right up to the point where I drop some bootleg science on your heads. The first one is Pedro the Lion recorded live at the El Rey in Los Angeles on March 21, 2005.
01: Nothing
02: Penetration
03: Big Trucks (false start)
04: (banter)
05: Foregone Conclusions
06: Priests and Paramedics
07: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
08: The Longer I Lay Here
09: I Do
10: Keep Swinging
11: Never Leave a Job Half Done
12: When They Really Get To Know You They Will Run
Our second bootleg is a bonus from last week — since I missed my bootleg post. It’s Ben Gibbard solo and live in Milwaukee from 2002.
01: Photobooth
02: A Movie Script Ending
03: Debate Exposes Doubt
04: The Death of an Interior Decorator
05: Why You’d Want to Live Here
06: Complicated (Avril Lavigne)
07: I Was A Kaleidoscope
08: We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
09: Lack of Color
10: Sockhop
11: St Swithin’s Day (Billy Bragg)
12: 405
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