Ody
Refugee
I saw REM and Wilco last night. It was quite good, although our seats were not that close. It turned out ok though because the guy next to us let us use his binoculars a lot. And we were in the $40 range, whereas everyone else in our section (towards the center) had to pay $80 for seats just as far away! The closer seats went up to like $300. !@!*__()*()*)$*)_
Wilco was solid, and I like their stuff, but it was hard to get a good grasp of their stage presence from where I was. They don't dance frenetically around like Stipe does.
REM was very good. Man on the Moon and It's the End of the World were highlights for me. For Man on the Moon they had an Andy Kaufman impersonator come out and just be goofy, throwing water on the bandmembers, and getting tackled by a roadie (or a security guard) I dunno. I didn't have the binoculars then. Also, there was an almost full moon, Michael Stipe called it the 2nd night of the full moon.
EofW was cool because Stipe went out into the audience on the catwalk kind of thing- and (I thought of the heart immediately) and let people in the crowd sing "fine" during the chorus. And everyone was jumping up and down, which was really the only song where they did this. (with a couple excpetions).
One final note. The Hollywood Bowl looks huge when it's full.
Wilco was solid, and I like their stuff, but it was hard to get a good grasp of their stage presence from where I was. They don't dance frenetically around like Stipe does.
REM was very good. Man on the Moon and It's the End of the World were highlights for me. For Man on the Moon they had an Andy Kaufman impersonator come out and just be goofy, throwing water on the bandmembers, and getting tackled by a roadie (or a security guard) I dunno. I didn't have the binoculars then. Also, there was an almost full moon, Michael Stipe called it the 2nd night of the full moon.
EofW was cool because Stipe went out into the audience on the catwalk kind of thing- and (I thought of the heart immediately) and let people in the crowd sing "fine" during the chorus. And everyone was jumping up and down, which was really the only song where they did this. (with a couple excpetions).
One final note. The Hollywood Bowl looks huge when it's full.
Zoney 
chicken & stars!
