In The Backyard....
Nov. 12th, 2006 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seasleepyBNL show: very awesome. Also very cold. (High yesterday in College Station: 87. Temp at outdoor concert in Austin tonight: ~45 and quite likely lower than that. I knew it was going to be colder today, but dang. I was very glad I decided to bring along a hat at the last minute.)
Definitely the best banter I've gotten to see personally. The day off beforehand seemed pretty evident in the energy level. I laughed so much at Steve spending large chunks of time being incredulous about the shopping center because I actually missed the turn into the Backyard since I was like, "Oh, that can't be it, all that's by the Backyard is that gas station with a Subway." (Last time we went, that was honestly the only identifiable feature of the area, which was kind of annoying, but also kind of cool, cause that was sort of the whole thing with the "backyard" aspect. Now, you walk out of the venue and the first thing you see is a Best Buy. And there was absolutely not even a hint of any of this being built at all the last time they played there.) Kevin started singing Day-O before... Unfinished, I think. The first Million Dollars banter was really long and ended up with some really horrible puns. And Ty enjoyed pandering to the local crowd with the rock horns.
And we got Some Fantastic and A and Grade 9 and acoustic LIAN (with bongos!) and a really good When I Fall. (We also got Baby Seat and Shoebox, which I was less excited about, but the other songs made up for them.) Nothing as surprising as The Flag last time around, but very excellent stuff.
The Backyard, in addition to now being in the middle of a shopping center, is a lot smaller than I remember it being, and the rows and the seats were way too narrow, which was not so nice, and I ended up having to do the old Kyle Field thing of standing sort of sideways.
Definitely the best banter I've gotten to see personally. The day off beforehand seemed pretty evident in the energy level. I laughed so much at Steve spending large chunks of time being incredulous about the shopping center because I actually missed the turn into the Backyard since I was like, "Oh, that can't be it, all that's by the Backyard is that gas station with a Subway." (Last time we went, that was honestly the only identifiable feature of the area, which was kind of annoying, but also kind of cool, cause that was sort of the whole thing with the "backyard" aspect. Now, you walk out of the venue and the first thing you see is a Best Buy. And there was absolutely not even a hint of any of this being built at all the last time they played there.) Kevin started singing Day-O before... Unfinished, I think. The first Million Dollars banter was really long and ended up with some really horrible puns. And Ty enjoyed pandering to the local crowd with the rock horns.
And we got Some Fantastic and A and Grade 9 and acoustic LIAN (with bongos!) and a really good When I Fall. (We also got Baby Seat and Shoebox, which I was less excited about, but the other songs made up for them.) Nothing as surprising as The Flag last time around, but very excellent stuff.
The Backyard, in addition to now being in the middle of a shopping center, is a lot smaller than I remember it being, and the rows and the seats were way too narrow, which was not so nice, and I ended up having to do the old Kyle Field thing of standing sort of sideways.
