[Mael-list] Rock Rock ROCK!

[Ned Raggett]

On May 22, 2006, at 3:23 PM, David Younker wrote:

> I expected them to rock this time, but was stunned by the energy and 
> aural dynamism of the band. 
>

Very true.  I regret not being able to see Josh and Dean as much since 
I was over on the Steve/Tammy/Ron side, but even at a (relative) 
distance you could see them going all out!  Sue or somebody, PLEASE 
tell me there will be a DVD from this tour!

>  
> The full album performance has grown on me, as well.  I shrugged a bit 
> when we first heard this is how it would again be done, but by the 
> night of the show, I was so enamored with the album that I wanted to 
> hear it played at once like that, and I've come to think this, for 
> Sparks at least, is really the way to do a concert. 

Yeah, and I think there's something really good -- really right -- 
about an established band both wanting to treat their new work as 
something that's good new work, not a generic time-killer, while also 
knowing that they would be able to carry an audience of fans through it 
all start to finish.

> Yep, Ned, another Orange County guy here, Aliso Viejo being home.  All 
> this time I didn't realize any of the L.A. contingent on the mael-list 
> were from the OC.  I would have offered up a ride myself had your 
> circumstances become known earlier.  But then you'd have had to patrol 
> around Beverly Hills and Hollywood people watching with us all 
> afternoon.  :) 

Heheh, well my plans were going to be different so you'd have been long 
gone anyway by the time I recognized my dire straits!  But next time, 
hopefully as in, say, later this year (please, oh Maels and company? 
partially because I've got a slew of friends kicking themselves that 
they didn't go now, and I've been rubbing it in since!).

Ned
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