Entries from February 2010 ↓

In one of the most unexpected tours to come along in a while, the semi-reformed Public Image Limited will be playing the Midland theatre on April 26.

The end of April is getting filled with a bunch of crazy good concerts.  Unfortunately that’s also when my wife is due for our new son.

So to summarize, I will be missing the following shows:

- Jeff Beck, who is the last on my list of living guitarists that I really really really want to see.

- Mastodon playing at Liberty Hall.  Not a huge deal since I saw them with Dethklok, but it kills me that they’re playing just a few minutes away from my house.

- Steve Martin playing a bluegrass concert.  The guy is an amazing banjo player and I would really like to see this.

- Public Image Limited, who canceled their Las Cruces show that I had tickets to back around 1990 and I’m still bitter about it.

Maybe Paul McCartney can go ahead and schedule an appearance in Kansas City at that time as well.

NPR had an interesting interview yesterday with Mike Nakagawa about the music that gets played during the snowboarding events.  I only half pay attention to the olympics so I had no idea any sport other than figure skating got a musical accompaniment. 

What I thought was interesting was how the two genders broke down.  The men all leaned toward classic rock and really not a whole lot that is recent.  “Back in Black”, “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, “Kashmir”, and oddly enough “Rockin’ in the Free World” were all mentioned.

The women had a more diverse selection, with songs by the Black Eyes Peas, “Dominoes” by the Big Pink, and “How Bizarre” by OMC all being picked.  Rebecca Sinclair also picked “Eye of the Tiger” which I was sick of hearing at sporting events back in the 90s, but that’s my problem.  Nakagawa mentioned that Kelly Clark supplies her own Christian rock music.

The difference between the men’s picks and the women’s picks were interesting.  It seems like the women gave more thought into what they picked and maybe selected something that was meaningful to them while the guys just used the first song that came into their head.