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Guster in Austin (v3!)
Apr. 7th, 2007 12:15 pmGuster in Austin at Stubb's again last night.
Sandra and I headed out of here at about 2 or 3, and got stuck in some crazy traffic in Bastrop for no apparent reason. There must have been an accident or something, because there was a backup for miles. Eventually we made it out (after a stop at the ATM and HEB for earplugs), and proceeded on to Bookpeople, where we killed an hour, and then walked over to Whole Foods to find something to eat.
We headed off to I35 and parked and walked over to Stubb's where I was surprised to see the words "Sold Out" stuck up on the ticket window -- I don't think any of the concerts I've ever been to at Stubb's before have sold out. We picked up our tickets from Will Call and wandered on in to be confronted by a freaking ton of people. After boggling for a couple of minutes and doing a quick wander by the booths at the back, we waded in and ended up a few feet in front of the light board, where we watched The Format who were... uh... rather not my thing. At all. (In fact, I think I had one of my first ever "You kids get off my lawn" moments, as I was watching them and wishing they would a) get a goddamn haircut and b) face the audience when they're playing at least a majority of the time, rather than playing at the video-camera guy they had up on stage for whatever reason.) They had a lot of vocal fans there though -- so much so that I was mildly concerned that a large portion of the audience only showed up for them. After their set, Sandra and I removed our earplugs and went "...Okay then," and decided to try to move a bit closer.
The Guster part of the show, thankfully, was pretty awesome. Ryan seemed very happily geeked about how many people there were. Joe actually talked once, and made an awful joke (he was wearing a newsboyish cap and "a friend of mine told me I looked like an old newsboy, and I said, 'yup, that's me, delivering the old news.'" There was a beat and then Ryan just started clapping to encourage him because otherwise he won't talk on stage again.) And Brian sang "Always on My Mind" at the end.
I realized after the show that Steph is going to be jealous because they didn't play Fa Fa.
While it was nice that the show was sold out and the crowd seemed excited and seemed to know the songs fairly well, it did mean that it was very very crowded, and I did quite a lot of coughing and gulping down air whenever a clear breeze came by when the two girls right next to me started smoking pot. Fortunately they left or moved or something after a couple of songs. I expect the pot and all at concerts, but I can't deal with it when I'm practically standing on top of the people smoking.
But the crowd was mostly good and that always helps make a show more fun.
After the concert, we headed off to Magnolia Cafe, as is the custom, and then we got back to CS at about 2:30.
Sandra and I headed out of here at about 2 or 3, and got stuck in some crazy traffic in Bastrop for no apparent reason. There must have been an accident or something, because there was a backup for miles. Eventually we made it out (after a stop at the ATM and HEB for earplugs), and proceeded on to Bookpeople, where we killed an hour, and then walked over to Whole Foods to find something to eat.
We headed off to I35 and parked and walked over to Stubb's where I was surprised to see the words "Sold Out" stuck up on the ticket window -- I don't think any of the concerts I've ever been to at Stubb's before have sold out. We picked up our tickets from Will Call and wandered on in to be confronted by a freaking ton of people. After boggling for a couple of minutes and doing a quick wander by the booths at the back, we waded in and ended up a few feet in front of the light board, where we watched The Format who were... uh... rather not my thing. At all. (In fact, I think I had one of my first ever "You kids get off my lawn" moments, as I was watching them and wishing they would a) get a goddamn haircut and b) face the audience when they're playing at least a majority of the time, rather than playing at the video-camera guy they had up on stage for whatever reason.) They had a lot of vocal fans there though -- so much so that I was mildly concerned that a large portion of the audience only showed up for them. After their set, Sandra and I removed our earplugs and went "...Okay then," and decided to try to move a bit closer.
The Guster part of the show, thankfully, was pretty awesome. Ryan seemed very happily geeked about how many people there were. Joe actually talked once, and made an awful joke (he was wearing a newsboyish cap and "a friend of mine told me I looked like an old newsboy, and I said, 'yup, that's me, delivering the old news.'" There was a beat and then Ryan just started clapping to encourage him because otherwise he won't talk on stage again.) And Brian sang "Always on My Mind" at the end.
I realized after the show that Steph is going to be jealous because they didn't play Fa Fa.
While it was nice that the show was sold out and the crowd seemed excited and seemed to know the songs fairly well, it did mean that it was very very crowded, and I did quite a lot of coughing and gulping down air whenever a clear breeze came by when the two girls right next to me started smoking pot. Fortunately they left or moved or something after a couple of songs. I expect the pot and all at concerts, but I can't deal with it when I'm practically standing on top of the people smoking.
But the crowd was mostly good and that always helps make a show more fun.
After the concert, we headed off to Magnolia Cafe, as is the custom, and then we got back to CS at about 2:30.
