September 16th, 2009
Cool things happen/are happening to me. I've been in town less than a week and already have been to an awesome beatles concert (for free – see previous post), got a job, had dinner with my good friends from nashville Adam and Kate, Shot a bunch of awesome photos, met other nice folks, popped my NYC-cyclist cherry, and saw rodrigo y gabriela perform.
You might say to yourself, “Gee, I like the couple of songs by Rodrigo y Gabriela that I've heard, but they're pretty similar. I wonder how they keep their two hour set from all sounding the same.” Well, they don't.
To be fair, they do the thing that that do very well. They play spanish sounding music...really fast. They can thump on their guitars...really fast. Oh, and loud. Seriously, Gabriela strums so quickly I didn't mind hearing the same song for two hours.
Occasionally Rodrigo would get different sections of the crowd clapping different paterns. I think most people enjoyed that but at one point a frat boy behind me yelled, “This shit is so complex! What the fuck dude!”
So did I enjoy myself? Yes. Do I think it was a good concert? Well, if you're wowed my speed and dexterity you might have thought it was a good concert. If I made a checklist of things at a good concert, instrumental acrobatics probably wouldn't be on it.
