So, I was supposed to head straight to Feist on Tuesday night, but things didn't quite work out that way!As I was getting a pre-show cocktail, I ran into a friend of mine. He's a fabulous Liverpuddlian guitarist who played on a few of my recordings. We were like kids in a candy store at that session in engineer Michael Brauer's (Bob Dylan, Cold Play) private room at Quad Studio. Some very cool vintage analog tape delay effects that made my voice sound like a very comfy 70's living room couch! He now plays in the shoegazing, Britpop outfit, The Picture. Some great songwriting.Anyway, he was on his way to see the second night of The Verve. And the more I talked about it, the more excited I got about that special Monday night show.So I convinced my other friend that we should bag Feist and buy tickets to The Verve. But I clearly should not have tried to re-create the magic. The boys seemed a little lower energy than the night before. So we left mid set and headed over to catch the tail end of Feist (no pun intended)! Hammerstein was not a good venue for her as there were too many chatty folk on the very large and long floor. Town Hall was perfect when I saw her last. But of course, she was fantastic. I love her Malcolm Young headbanging move when she's rocking out on the guitar.Got a nice little poster to commemorate the evening. Will go nicely next to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and You Am I in my hallway.In other fantastic rock art news, my buddy is moving to Barcelona, and is allowing me to babysit his folk art Robert Johnson wood shudder thingy. He seems very happy in my living room on the exposed brick. Woo hoo!
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