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6/13/2006 The Mountain Goats @ Neumo'sOur vacation last week prevented us from seeing two shows we'd have liked to go to: The Eels (with Smoosh), and The Streets. I was very glad that our vacation didn't also interfere with The Mountain Goats.
We didn't meet up with Wendy until after the first opening act; sounds like we missed a decent performance. Up second was a German woman, Barbara Morganstern, who played energetic keyboards and accompanied herself on laptop for other, um, musical sounds. I'm not sure I fully appreciate this type of electronic music - some of it I enjoyed, and some of it I found kind of monotonous. Before she took the stage, theCultFigure was chatting with Peter Hughes (Mountain Goats' bassist) who mentioned that John Darnielle is a big fan of hers, and they brought her over from Germany specifically to tour with them. Hmm. That's a strong recommendation.
In any case, The Mountain Goats were amazing. This is my #1 show for this year, in the absence of any U.S.E. shows so far of course... There's not much I can say about The Mountain Goats that I'm sure hasn't been said 1000 times already - they combine extraordinary lyrics with a relentless delivery that ranges over a full gamut of emotions, played over bare instrumentation. In the case of this live performance, it was just acoustic guitar and bass. I got shivers... twice! Darnielle has an effortless engaging manner and comes off as a smart-alecky observant storyteller you would totally want to be friends with. After telling us all about a boxer named Pinterton Thomas, I was thinking, "Man, I gotta see some boxing!" And I don't have any interest in boxing.
To my complete delight, they played "No Children" during the encore. I gotta say, singing along with a crowded room full of people to such lyrics as "I hope you die... I hope we both die" was really touching. It was a misanthropy love-in. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://cultfig.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9CCAAA8C0692EB76!1006.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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