Last night I caught BB King at the Mann Music Center. Like most people I’m not a huge BB King fan, but I respect his talent and career immensely. He’s 76 years old and can’t play forever, so I decided to check him out and it was well worth it. The weather was horrible, but luckily they don’t check your tickets at the Mann. At first we sat up in the balcony and the sound was awful, but I was blown away when we finally moved downstairs. BB King and his band are great showmen and awesome musicians.
My web host, ipowerweb.com, has great statistics that give me information on how people find and use this site. If someone types something into a search engine like Google or AllTheWeb and visits my website then I can tell what search terms were used. Typical ones are “open mic in philadelphia area” and “open mic night coffee house collingswood nj.”
Listen to this one: “went to a nudist party tonight and had a great time seeing ever” My website is the 2nd result if you search for this text on Google and I think what pushes me over the top is one of my Deep Thought quotes in the top right corner about sitting on Santa’s lap in nudist colonies. I also saw two people came in searching for information about the new Collingswood restuarant, Tortilla Press. I read my old comments about it and I realize I was a little harsh. My food has always been terrific there and I can’t wait to go back again. The Tortilla Press is awesome!
Last night I caught BB King at the Mann Music Center. Like most people I’m not a huge BB King fan, but I respect his talent and career immensely. He’s 76 years old and can’t play forever, so I decided to check him out and it was well worth it. The weather was horrible, but luckily they don’t check your tickets at the Mann. At first we sat up in the balcony and the sound was awful, but I was blown away when we finally moved downstairs. BB King and his band are great showmen and awesome musicians.
My web host, ipowerweb.com, has great statistics that give me information on how people find and use this site. If someone types something into a search engine like Google or AllTheWeb and visits my website then I can tell what search terms were used. Typical ones are “open mic in philadelphia area” and “open mic night coffee house collingswood nj.”
Listen to this one: “went to a nudist party tonight and had a great time seeing ever” My website is the 2nd result if you search for this text on Google and I think what pushes me over the top is one of my Deep Thought quotes in the top right corner about sitting on Santa’s lap in nudist colonies. I also saw two people came in searching for information about the new Collingswood restuarant, Tortilla Press. I read my old comments about it and I realize I was a little harsh. My food has always been terrific there and I can’t wait to go back again. The Tortilla Press is awesome!
The Unlimited Sunshine concert rocked last night at the Mann. Modest Mouse, Cake, De La Soul and the Flaming Lips put on a great show and although I liked everyone I think the Flaming Lips impressed me the most. They came out wearing rabbit and frog suits and showed movie clips during their songs. Using their TV appearences the Lips showed Conan O’Brien and Jon Stewart introducing them on their respective shows (Stewart’s being his old MTV show, not his current Comedy Central show, but not his really really old show Short Attention Span Theater that no one remembers anymore).
Cake played really well, too and I liked hearing a few songs from their only album I own, Motorcade of Generosity, even if they didn’t play any of my three favorite songs from that album (Rock and Roll Lifestyle, I Bombed Korea, and Jolene).
The oddest thing about the whole show as how quiet the music was. For the first time in my life I came home from a concert wishing the music had been louder. I had no problem carrying on a conversation with anyone around me. I’m going to see BB King there next week so I’ll see if it’s the standard practice for the Mann.
Who cares if it rained? No one at the Mann enforces seating restrictions.
The Unlimited Sunshine concert rocked last night at the Mann. Modest Mouse, Cake, De La Soul and the Flaming Lips put on a great show and although I liked everyone I think the Flaming Lips impressed me the most. They came out wearing rabbit and frog suits and showed movie clips during their songs. Using their TV appearences the Lips showed Conan O’Brien and Jon Stewart introducing them on their respective shows (Stewart’s being his old MTV show, not his current Comedy Central show, but not his really really old show Short Attention Span Theater that no one remembers anymore).
Cake played really well, too and I liked hearing a few songs from their only album I own, Motorcade of Generosity, even if they didn’t play any of my three favorite songs from that album (Rock and Roll Lifestyle, I Bombed Korea, and Jolene).
The oddest thing about the whole show as how quiet the music was. For the first time in my life I came home from a concert wishing the music had been louder. I had no problem carrying on a conversation with anyone around me. I’m going to see BB King there next week so I’ll see if it’s the standard practice for the Mann.
Who cares if it rained? No one at the Mann enforces seating restrictions.
I missed a Beck show the other night because I didn’t hear about it in time. I have been kicking myself ever since I missed him at the Troc in 1996 (I was visiting Syracuse University at the time). Fear not because I will be going to the Unlimited Sunshine concert on Thursday with Cake, the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, and more. That should be a awesome show.
My girlfriend and I went for hike in Wissahickon and we stumbled across the cave of Johanes Kelpius, a famous hermit from the 1600’s. It was really spooky and if I would have died if someone jumped out of it wearing a wolfman mask.
I’m probably heading to the Grape Street open mic tonight.
I missed a Beck show the other night because I didn’t hear about it in time. I have been kicking myself ever since I missed him at the Troc in 1996 (I was visiting Syracuse University at the time). Fear not because I will be going to the Unlimited Sunshine concert on Thursday with Cake, the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, and more. That should be a awesome show.
My girlfriend and I went for hike in Wissahickon and we stumbled across the cave of Johanes Kelpius, a famous hermit from the 1600’s. It was really spooky and if I would have died if someone jumped out of it wearing a wolfman mask.
I’m probably heading to the Grape Street open mic tonight.