MGMT Destroyed Webster Hall Last Night!
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Mike under New York
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If last night’s MGMT concert was prologue to what’s in store this Halloween weekend. Holy. Toledo.
Dressed handsomely as a mariachi band, they put a hurting on Webster Hall in NYC last night. I scored a ticket last minute, because somebody wanted to go see Philadelphia burn. Sports and Rock n’ Roll converge, and everybody wins. It’s a beautiful thing.
Check out the song that got this band signed, Kids. Got to battle horrendous fan vocal stylings (from what sounds like a singular douche, possibly the same guy with camera) – par for the course with in-crowd videos. The highlight comes about 3:00 minutes in; I’ll give you a hint: it’s shredding.
If anyone gets their hands on photos or the cover of ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’, send it my way!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Not sure if you and I were at the same show, but I thought MGMT was a total disappointment. They had no sense of song selection, and followed every upbeat song with a slow one. I had no problem with the playing of crowd pleasers early in the set, but they needed to take the energy that was created and build upon it, rather than letting it fizzle. Many times I was able to hear the crowd talking over a song, and while the crowd seemed to be filled with an inordinate number of douchebags, this is never a sign that a band has the rapt attention of the crowd.
But, if seeing a band dressed in matching Mariachi outfits makes you blow your load, then that must have been your favorite concert of all time.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
[...] I posted earlier on how well this show went for us…check it out and read the comments, someone vehemently disagreed with me. [...]