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davemerrillGot home Friday night from a late night food run and found out our wireless router had died, so Saturday we went out and got a new router, and a cat scratching thing (as seen on TV!!) and some new pillows. Hooked the new router up; it seems to work OK and is even a little faster. Dunno why the old one died, but hey, these things happen.
Saturday night it was time to go out and see Iggy & The Stooges down at Yonge & Dundas Square as part of the NXNE Music Festival! I missed the free X show on Thursday night, but darned if I'm going to miss the chance to see former camp counselor James Osterberg perform (for free).
It was amazingly crowded. The square was absolutely jam packed. The corporate sponsor tents weren't helping things either. Still, we managed to work our way up to a point where we could at least see the band some of the time.
People were clearly happy to see the Stooges.
They stuck to their top 40 hits including "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Your Pretty Face (Is Going To Hell)", "Death Trip", "Open Up & Bleed", "I Got A Right", closed with "No Fun". Surprisingly they did "I'm Loose", one of my faves, and from the same album, "1970" and "Fun House". They started a little early so I didn't catch some of their set, probably missed "Raw Power" and "Search And Destroy". If they played "Lust For Life" I didn't hear it, but for the sake of the idiot in the audience hollering "Trainspotting!" I hope they did not.
Iggy sounded great and the band was really tight. I mean, consider how old these guys are and how much they've abused themselves after years on the road. A lot of acts that have been around for decades will sleepwalk through gigs and not give 100%, but the Stooges do not punk out, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's a picture I took of a guy taking a picture.
The sound was great, but the stage needed to be about four or five feet higher. If you weren't tall or up close you didn't get to see a thing. Yonge & Dundas is surrounded by video screens, you'd think somebody would think of feeding the signal into one of them, but no dice.
Yet another reason for me to get a bike was demonstrated by our epic journey home after the show; thanks to NXNE, the Luminato arts festival, Adam Lambert at the Molson Centre, the Much Music Video Awards, the Taste Of Italy festival in Little Italy, squadrons of World-Cup-celebrating SUVs flying flags of all nations cruising around, and road closures for the upcoming G20, added to the typical late Saturday night traffic downtown - this all means one thing, and that one thing is gridlock. I like a downtown that hosts events, but they may be scheduling too many things on top of each other here. And if I had a bike like a smart person, we'd just zip past everybody, merrily ringing our little bells.
Anyway, that was Saturday. It was looking like I was going to have to go into work today but as it turns out I do not, so Donald and David are gonna come over and catch the Anime Hell they missed at Anime North because of, you know, running the con. Also, dinner.
Iggy says, all you fathers have a great Father's Day!!
Saturday night it was time to go out and see Iggy & The Stooges down at Yonge & Dundas Square as part of the NXNE Music Festival! I missed the free X show on Thursday night, but darned if I'm going to miss the chance to see former camp counselor James Osterberg perform (for free).
It was amazingly crowded. The square was absolutely jam packed. The corporate sponsor tents weren't helping things either. Still, we managed to work our way up to a point where we could at least see the band some of the time.
People were clearly happy to see the Stooges.
They stuck to their top 40 hits including "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Your Pretty Face (Is Going To Hell)", "Death Trip", "Open Up & Bleed", "I Got A Right", closed with "No Fun". Surprisingly they did "I'm Loose", one of my faves, and from the same album, "1970" and "Fun House". They started a little early so I didn't catch some of their set, probably missed "Raw Power" and "Search And Destroy". If they played "Lust For Life" I didn't hear it, but for the sake of the idiot in the audience hollering "Trainspotting!" I hope they did not.
Iggy sounded great and the band was really tight. I mean, consider how old these guys are and how much they've abused themselves after years on the road. A lot of acts that have been around for decades will sleepwalk through gigs and not give 100%, but the Stooges do not punk out, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's a picture I took of a guy taking a picture.
The sound was great, but the stage needed to be about four or five feet higher. If you weren't tall or up close you didn't get to see a thing. Yonge & Dundas is surrounded by video screens, you'd think somebody would think of feeding the signal into one of them, but no dice.
Yet another reason for me to get a bike was demonstrated by our epic journey home after the show; thanks to NXNE, the Luminato arts festival, Adam Lambert at the Molson Centre, the Much Music Video Awards, the Taste Of Italy festival in Little Italy, squadrons of World-Cup-celebrating SUVs flying flags of all nations cruising around, and road closures for the upcoming G20, added to the typical late Saturday night traffic downtown - this all means one thing, and that one thing is gridlock. I like a downtown that hosts events, but they may be scheduling too many things on top of each other here. And if I had a bike like a smart person, we'd just zip past everybody, merrily ringing our little bells.
Anyway, that was Saturday. It was looking like I was going to have to go into work today but as it turns out I do not, so Donald and David are gonna come over and catch the Anime Hell they missed at Anime North because of, you know, running the con. Also, dinner.
Iggy says, all you fathers have a great Father's Day!!
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