Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 17th, 2006 Options

[SJN1279]

LIVE will be returing to the HOB in Atlantic City on Friday Nov. 17th. Tickets will range from 37-62 dollars and be on sale next Saturday September 23rd. Hopefully there is not a state playoff football game that night for North Bergen HS.....I'm really nervous!

www.hob.com

[Tabucky]

Well it's Sunday, not 4AM Saturday morning, but I can finally say this was a fucking fabulous concert. However, on the whole, I enjoyed the Nokia Theatre show in NYC in May a lot more. The songs were done better and there were two or three more songs, but nonetheless, this concert was great. The best news of the night was when Ed said that the next album would be an "angry" one because he's sick of all the shit on the radio...I'm liking this idea already! Another thing to add: I don't think they'll wait until 2009 to release their next record. It definitely won't be 2007, but I'd be willing to bet on 2008. Hopefully we'll get a few select shows next year to tide us over.

Anyway, the highlights of the show were Pain Lies on the Riverside, Lightning Crashes, Wings, White Discussion (which seemed to go on forever! it was awesome), the part where Ed sang that Gnarls Barkley song, Ed's feistiness, and a lot of other things. Mainly the music though.

I must complain about the HOB, though. I can't even begin to understand why everyone is so in love with this venue. It is SUCH crap. The people working there are absolute dumbfucks, and they really do everything they can to make things as far from easy for you as possible. And to top it off, it is in the king shithole of shitholes, Atlantic City. I could go on and on about the HOB and about AC, but all there is to it is that I won't be heading back there too soon to see another concert (of ANY kind).

In any case, it was fun meeting a couple people from the boards (Laura [ohtangled] and Matt [cos]), and it was fun hanging with you and your crew, Janice. Thanks again for helping me and Laura (my gf, not Alabama Laura) out with things like our bag and our positioning.

So, I guess a long period of Live nothingness is to follow. All I hope comes out of it is a re-energized Live (as in the V era or before) and an awesome new album. I'm more optimistic now than I've ever been before that Live can pull themselves together to make incredible music again. But for now, I'm content with seeing Live twice this year perform great gigs.

P-fucking-S: Ed did not do his usual beckoning hand motion during the "come to me" part in Dolphin's Cry, which is lame. Everyone knows it's the sexiest thing that he does and both me and Laura were upset that he did not do it. Ed, I will kill you if you do not do it in the future.

This post has been edited by Tabucky: Nov 19 2006, 10:52 pm