Solo-Electric?
I saw Bob Mould play last week in Vicar Street. In fairness the only record of his I had really heard was 'Workbook', which was kinda okay. I was not familiar with the Husker Du or Sugar end of his career, so I went in blind.
I left after 50 minutes....
A solo performance started out with rudimentary strumming and shouting by Mister Mould, blending one song into another, crashing his acoustic guitar in a fashion not unlike the busker we passed outside on the street. A baldy angry middle aged man just didn't ring true. A distinct lack of honesty.
It descended into awfulness when his acoustic guitar was subsituted for a Fender Stratocaster. Now solo acoustic works. Sometimes. Folks like Beck and Bob Dylan and a few others can carry it off. But Solo Electric? Mental pictures of Billy Bragg keep popping up and they are not very pleasant.
We skulled the dregs of our beers and did a Snagglepus...
A truly dreadful show.
I left after 50 minutes....
A solo performance started out with rudimentary strumming and shouting by Mister Mould, blending one song into another, crashing his acoustic guitar in a fashion not unlike the busker we passed outside on the street. A baldy angry middle aged man just didn't ring true. A distinct lack of honesty.
It descended into awfulness when his acoustic guitar was subsituted for a Fender Stratocaster. Now solo acoustic works. Sometimes. Folks like Beck and Bob Dylan and a few others can carry it off. But Solo Electric? Mental pictures of Billy Bragg keep popping up and they are not very pleasant.
We skulled the dregs of our beers and did a Snagglepus...
A truly dreadful show.
posted by Derek Keogh | 3:15 PM
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