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\nBeck is the bright-blue smudge on the far left. The big building in the middle is the county jail. Atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Saw Mr. Beck Hansen last night, at the Red Hat ™ Amphitheater in loverly downtown Raleighville. <\/p>\n
Because they got rid of the first three sections of seats in order to make a 'pit' area (so thousands of people could stand shoulder to shoulder in a 90-degree Raleigh July evening), I bought a seated ticket - right in back of the sound guy, as it turns out. At least I'd get the best possible sound!? I surely hope I didn't, because it mostly sounded like crap. The only songs that sounded good<\/i> were the mellower things from his current album. Everything else - all the loud, rappy, sing-along songs - that was a mushy mess. So, though I couldn't really tell if they were any good, the band did seem to be having a good time. And from my vantage point, Beck himself was a very mobile and active indistinct black and white blob. <\/p>\n
\nBeck is the bright-blue smudge on the far left. The big building in the middle is the county jail. Atmosphere.<\/p>\n
The beers were $8, but they were 24oz, so not really expensive. The bros were there in force. I left my assigned seat early and wandered the place seeking better views - they were all better than sitting in back of the sound guy. The venue sits right<\/em> next to - and because it's a bowl, right below<\/i> - the train tracks, and trains always go by during shows. Last night, three Amtracks passed by. I wonder if the people on the train are able to hear the concerts. <\/p>\n Song selection was good; he easily filled the 90 minutes with his hits and the better of his non-hits. There are about a dozen songs I would've also liked to hear, but Raleigh's noise ordinances mean all shows there have to be done by 10:00 - there was only so much time.<\/p>\n A band called \"Ghost of a Sabre-toothed Tiger\" opened. They do the same kind of retro-psychedelic rock that Tame Impala does, so I dug them. And they actually sounded better than Beck did. They ended with a rockin version of Syd Barrett's \"Long Gone\", which was very cool. Turns out, though I didn't know it at the time, that their singer is Sean Lennon: son of John and Yoko. I reckon that gives them a better claim on the sound than the Aussies in Tame Impala. And that's probably the closest I'll ever get to a Beatle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saw Mr. Beck Hansen last night, at the Red Hat ™ Amphitheater in loverly downtown Raleighville. Because they got rid of the first three sections of seats in order to make a 'pit' area (so thousands of people could stand shoulder to shoulder in a 90-degree Raleigh July evening), I bought a seated ticket - […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20853,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20838\/revisions\/20853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}