Managed to get two tickets to see Beck last night despite it having been allegedly sold out. Very cool. Jamie Liddell opened, and his mix of classic soul/techno/nerd in a bathrobe was oddly compelling. On to the main show. We get not only Beck & his band, but a live marionette version of the concert projected on a screen behind them. Sounds goofy, but is was freakin' cool.
Unfortunately, the audience was filled to the brim with jackasses who paid forty bucks a pop to stand around and talk with Beck (freakin' Beck!) as background music. I've stood in elevators where people paid more attention to the tunes. The crowd noise was so loud that we couldn't always hear the music-- not just couldn't understand the words, which is expected, but we could not hear the performance.
So, for the first time ever I left a concert early. Not because the performance was bad (again, we're talking about freakin' Beck here), but because Athens is apparently filled with loud-mouthed morons, and I don't have a tazer.
Posted by Jason at June 15, 2006 12:35 PM