Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Macwood Fleet

Uhh . . . guess what! I'm not only a food critic! As of tonight I'm also a music critic! Qualifications: being an ACTUAL MUSICIAN. Yes, you read it correctly: my fingers can actually do more than type!

So we went to Fleetwood Mac at the Bell Centre tonight. C'mon, people, stop ragging on me, they're legends, you know, legends? They will probably never be back to Montreal in our lifetimes, (however, my young son might enjoy them live sometime in his lifetime, as might HIS son).

So there we went, to enjoy Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie . . .

I won't do this in traditional critic format: I'll instead present it as in a form of numbered bullet points.

1. Loud.
2. Loud.
3. Loud.
4. The ciliae in my ears were having an urgent meeting to discuss what could be done, as they faced imminent total destruction. Their owner was putting them in an untenable situation, namely Stevie Nicks trying to sing Christine McVie, and the pitchforks and grumbling were beginning to unsettle the whole community.
5. Pedal point is good. Pedal point is a bunch of chords all being played on top of one note. Macwood Fleet is good at this.
6. Too good.
7. A-minor-F-G is good, a lot of the time. Not the 100,000th time.
8. LOUD. Brigitte actually had to give me some tissue, which I wet with my spit and shoved into my ears . . . ahhhh, blessed relief.
9. AND I USED TO BE A GODDAMN HEAVY METAL MUSICIAN WHO STOOD NEXT TO MY AMP FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
10. Note to Fleetwood Mac: stick to your hits. The rest is a bunch of crap.
11. Lyndsey Buckingham is an INCREDIBLE guitarist.
12. There are sheep farmers in Australia I would like to hire to put Stevie Nicks out of her misery.
13. Brigitte insisted she was on smack. I insisted she was not.
14. She was on Jack Daniels. Rich people no longer do smack.
15. Oh, and all those lovely lighters being lit and held up in solidarity with each other, like in the 70s at Santana concerts? Brigitte had to point out that they were actually cell phone video cameras.
16. Fuck me.

2 comments:

  1. Welcome to 2009.

    Since lighters are considered a concealed weapon these days in most large concert halls...
    Not to mention all the bullshit smoking laws that keep springing up...
    We're all left to resort to the one item left on our person...
    which EVERYONE has...
    that has a light source...

    The cell phone.

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  2. Here in Montreal, security is incredibly lax. There are no metal detectors, no pat-downs. I carried in a metal coffee cup with scotch and coke in it under my armpit (hate those $7 watery beers!) and Brigitte smoked in the bathroom.

    So lighters wouldn't have been a problem. But this is now and that was then.

    Cell phones. Rock on!

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