[kj] (NKJ) Muse In LA Last Night

[damon cook]

wowzerz!

ya i rilly dig muse

dude plays those axes with da kaoss pads onboard etc

which reminds me,my gf Squibah told me last nite shes gonna buy this sg with
an onboard wah probe plate on the lower bout and also onboard fuzz factory
--but i digress

great review TB=PROPER!

GLAD U HAD A GOOD TIME MATE

CHEERZIOS

DC IN RVA

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM, TB <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:


> Caught Muse last night at Staples Arena, the 2nd night of a 2 night stand

> the band did in LA.

>

> Overall, a great, pure rock concert complete with every big arena show

> cliché you could think of, something which is increasingly

> rare to see these days.  There was the imaginative stage production with

> three huge LED video screens mounted on large rectangular

> towers that the band performed inside of.  There was more lasers than I can

> recall ever seeing since I saw The Electric Light

> Orchestra back in '78.  There was spinning drum risers, platforms mounted

> on hydraulic lifts that would lift the band 20 feet up

> over the stage.  Massive white balloons painted like eyeballs filled with

> red confetti that bounced around the audience during one

> song.  Drum and bass solos, enough guitar widdly-diddly shredding to make a

> Joe Satriani fan piss his drawers..... From a purely

> entertainment value, you got your money's worth and then some.  They even

> had a Spinal Tap moment when at the beginning of the show,

> the scrim around the video tower the bass player was in didn't come down

> leaving him playing shrouded inside his spot while roadies

> scrambled to pull the scrim down to reveal him.

>

> But the thing that counts most, at least for me is the band itself and the

> songs.  I came into last night's show with only a casual

> knowledge of Muse's music owning just two albums ("Black Holes and

> Revelations" and their most recent, "The Resistance") and their

> live cd/dvd "HAARP."  The band has an almost schizophrenic musical style,

> on one hand, they seem to like long hard rock jamming with

> some epic songs like "Knights Of Cydonia" which sound like 2112 era Rush

> mixed with Queen but then they have a very catchy pop side

> with songs like "Supermassive Black Hole" which are perfect modern day

> radio singles.  A lot of their songs have a anti-government

> paranoid conspiracy slant which I can take or leave (as with Killing Joke)

> but that shit doesn't really interfere with my enjoyment

> of the music.

>

> As musicians, the band is a *lot* more impressive then I was expecting.

>  Frontman and guitarist Matthew Bellamy is not only an

> accomplished player but a true rock star, dressed most of the show in a

> bright silver suit throwing moves and guitar licks that

> would put Eddie Van Halen to shame.  They put out a really full sound for a

> three piece although they do have a 4th guy playing

> keyboards and obviously triggering samples.

>

> Originally, I wasn't sure if I would go and held off buying a ticket to the

> show when it originally went on sale last April.  This

> year, I've kind of lost my taste for live shows and there really hasn't

> been a lot that interests me this year. But as last week

> rolled through, I bought a GA floor ticket just a couple days ago when

> Ticketmaster released a few prime tickets online.

>

> Staples Arena in downtown LA is probably one of the most unforgiving,

> cavernous places to see an arena concert these days.  Sound

> just gets swallowed up because the arena is almost as tall as it is long or

> wide so the floor is really the only good option.

> Fortunately, it was really easy to get way up front and I spent the show

> maybe 30 feet back dead center from the stage and had

> fairly good sound although the vocals were a bit muddy at times.  The

> opening band "Passion Pit" was pretty uninteresting. They

> looked (and dressed) exactly like a bunch of slacker kids just outta High

> School playing boring alt-hipster crap.

>

> The first half hour of the show was probably some of the most enjoyable

> live rock n' roll I've experienced in years.  The audience

> was typical LA - they respond well to big hits and are kind of sedate

> otherwise.  Interestingly, Muse would play short snippets of

> several mainstream rock songs at the end of some songs, like they played

> "The Star Spangled Banner" and the bridge to AC/DC's "Back

> In Black" respectively at the beginning and ending of "Hysteria."  The show

> began to drag near the end though when they played

> several songs including Stockholm Syndrome that had *really* loooonnng

> metal jams that just seemed to go on forever. Most of the

> audience seemed to enjoy it though - there were plenty of air guitaring

> knuckleheads headbanging around me which was pretty funny to

> watch. I was a bit bummed they didn't play "Map of the Problematique" which

> was the song that originally got me into them and has

> been played regularly in the set up 'til this week at most shows.

>

> Overall though, A really enjoyable show and I'm glad I finally got to see

> this band at probably the height of their career.  The

> setlist:

>

> Uprising

> Resistance

> New Born

> Supermassive Black Hole

> Neutron Star Collision

> Hysteria

> Nishe

> United States of Eurasia

> Ruled By Secrecy

> Bliss

> Helsinki Jam

> Undisclosed Desires

> Starlight

> Plug In Baby

> Time Is Running Out

> Unnatural Selection

> -Encore

> Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)

> Stockholm Syndrome

> Man with a Harmonica intro

> Knights of Cydonia

>

> T.B.

>

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