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Chris Mule's MiM Mission Statement

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A few nights ago I went to Manchester to see Mr. David Bowie. He put on a great show and played songs from all over his career. He was making a point of telling us from which decade each song was, and I realized that there were probably some members of his band who weren't even born when his earliest stuff was coming out. Also, before this show, I hadn't thought about with just how many people he's done significant collaborations - Queen, Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and probably a lot more I don't know about. The highlight of the show was definitely the encore, where he played some of his best stuff from the early 70's - "Diamond Dogs," "Five Years," "Suffragette City," and "Ziggy Stardust." Despite this encore, the show didn't come across at all as a nostagia act. He played just as much obscure new and old stuff as he did the hits. It was one of the best big-production rock shows that I've seen in a while.

The opening band, The Polyphonic Spree, was also quite an interesting act. They're a 25-piece group and each member was on stage wearing a different color robe. There were about 10 singers, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, trumpet, flute, theremin, pedal steel, trombone, and harp. It was one of the most sensory overloading shows I've ever seen. The best description that I can come up with for this experience is that it was like seeing a combination of The Flaming Lips and the Teletubbies. If you remember the all-white iPod and VW Beetle ad that was out last year, their's is the song that's playing in there.
posted by Jerad | 12:01 PM |

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