Carbon/Silicon Live In Kansas City

Carbon/Silicon stopped by the Record Bar in Kansas City to play a great set on Saturday, March 29th. I went about five hours early in hopes of meeting Mick Jones of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite fame. When I pulled in the parking lot I saw a figure pushing a shopping cart in the distance...I thought, that can't be my guitar hero Mick Jones could it? I got closer and pulled right up to him, it was Mick! He looked up in fear as if I might hit him...I pulled over and followed him into a book store and had a nice chat. He was looking through a load of old books, he looked up and saw an old seven set volume of an author I hadn't heard of. He opened the first book and opened it with delight. I asked him questions while he thumbed through various books adding them to his basket. I had written out some questions but left them in the car with my camera...so I just asked obvious questions like, what is your favorite Clash album? The first one he told me. What is your favorite Big Audio Dynamite album? Megatop Phoenix, it had kind of a story to it throughout the entire thing. He went on to tell me he was familiar with Kansas City saying he had had a girlfriend in St.Louis. Mick said he would sign all my Clash and B.A.D. albums and cd covers after sound check. I walked in and sat at the bar while Tony James (Generation X -Sigue Sigue Sputnik) and the band played minus Mick...Tony said "Where's Jonesy?" He showed up twenty minutes later. Sound check was pretty lengthy..I was surprised when they played an Oasis song...Definately Maybe.

Matt Pond PA opened up the show, and were quite good. I had read a little about them on blogs but hadn't really given them a good listen. I will now. They played a great set and even played "Brooklyn Stars" an older song that a girl to my left requested.
Carbon/Silicon took the stage at about 10:45 playing a nice ten song set. Mick and Tony looked like they were having a great time up there and were feeding off the crowd. Mick was quite lively dancing around a bit smiling at the crowd. I loved when Mick introduced the band and played a snippet of "Police on my back" which made my night...I thought this will be the closest to ever hearing a Clash song live again. I had seen The Clash II and Joe Strummer in concert before so this was my first time seeing Mick and I wasn't disappointed. Some would say it's old man rock..but these old men are playing fresh tunes not relying on their back catalog from 25 years ago. I had a wonderful time, the band and crew were very nice indeed.

Song list was:
The Magic Suitcase
I Loved You
War On Culture
Reason To Believe
Soylent Green
Acton Zulus
The News
Really The Blues
WTF?
Why Do Men Fight?






For full photo set go to: Here

Daniel Lanois: Live at SXSW

Since I didn't make it to SXSW this year, I was watching concerts on Direct TV. They had quite a few good bands including--Liam Finn, Sons and Daughters, Daniel Lanois, and The Lemonheads. Anyway I was pretty excited to watch Daniel Lanois perform. Daniel played with just Brian Blade on drums at the Bat Bar in Austin...it was awesome. Seemed like they were feeding off each other kind of like a jazz ensemble. Daniel played a six song set which included a nearly twelve minute version of "The Maker"

"The Maker" live at SXSW 2008

A Place To Bury Strangers/Holy Fuck : Live In Concert

A Place To Bury Strangers and Holy Fuck played at the Record Bar in Kansas City on March 8th, 2008. APTBS opened up for Holy Fuck and played an insane set that almost gave me a seizure due to their strobe lights, fog and fuzzed out guitars...It was great, even though I was queasy. The huge shot the band bought me at the end of the night didn't settle to well either, but whose complaining...I thought they played even better than when I saw them open for B.R.M.C. I talked to Oliver before the show and took a couple shots of him as well as Jspace and JonoMOFO after the show. Couldn't have been nicer guys. I know they got a lot of respect recently at SXSW.







Holy Fuck headlined the show, I was up front taking shots but they had two keyboard/DJ setups facing each other with the drummer and bass player in the back, so they pretty much all looked a like. I like Holy Fuck more after seeing them live. The DJ/Keyboards mixed with the live drums and bass really worked for me...especially their drummer. I read that Lou Reed gave them a huge endorsement at SXSW. They are on their way to bigger and better things for sure.




Holy Fuck-Tone Bank Jungle mp3

A Place To Bury Strangers-Missing You mp3

More photos of both bands on my Flickr page.

Gogol Bordello Live In Kansas City, MO.

Gogol Bordello live at The Beaumont Club in Kansas City on March 6th, 2008.



An excellent performance as always. They drive the crowd crazy...with people flying over the top of me in the photo pit. I tried my best to get some decent shots.I was cut short by the tour manager due to the crowd surfing. I took a few portraits of Sergey, Elizabeth and Pamela. I showed Sergey my photos from the last time I shot them. He said he liked them and gave me a concert shirt. After I took portrait shots of Elizabeth and Pamela we walked together to get a cup of coffee...they were so nice and sweet, great women.










Gogol Bordello--Wonderlust King mp3