Here is a more comprehensive review as I drink my 3rd cup of coffee at work and try to fend off my deep desire to SLEEP.
New Order and Iggy Pop are two of the main reasons I became a musician. I grew up listening to them.
First, Bernard and Co. played an instrumental version of Your Silent Face with a string quartet and Mike Gary, the poet from Manchester doing spoken word over it. Then Iggy came out and they played the New Order song Californian Grass (which has never been played live..Iggy sang it like a lounge lizard, very cool).
Then they played the Joy Division songs Transmission and Love Will Tear Us apart with Bernard and Iggy singing them as a duet! Fucking Brilliant! Iggy sounded really good singing the Joy Division songs and you could tell how psyched Bernard was to be playing with him.
Then the Patti Smith Band came out and backed Iggy on Sister Midnight and Nightclubbing (two of my faves)...and then Phillip Glass came out and they played a Glass piece with Iggy doing spoken word over it.
The night climaxes with Patti Smith coming out and singing Lou Reed's Perfect Day...then, backed by her band, Patti sang HORSES! HORSES! HORSES!
I wrote my Senior AP English paper in High School on Patti Smith's Horses (comparing it thematically with TS Eliot's The Wasteland), so this was a very powerful moment for me. Then Patti and Co. played Gloria! The night ended with every single musician coming out and singing Patti's Power to the People.
I mean....I got to see three of my major musical heroes share a stage...in Carnegie Hall no less. I'm a big Glass fan too. It was a really amazing experience.
Robert Randolph opened the night backed by the Patti Smith Band. I've never seen RR before..that guy is amazing, he was wailing away on the pedal steel guitar it was so good.
The dudes from the National also play. Does the guitar player from the National always forget to tune his guitar? Dude held up the set for two minutes while he tuned his guitar...and then when they did their second song, he forgot to plug his guitar in! It was really funny.
Low point of the evening was listen to 15 minutes of Sufjan Stevens whining. Sorry folks, I cannot stand that guy. Luckily, after he was done, New Order and Iggy came out and mopped the floor with him.
This was an incredible night. Monday night I saw the legendary Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE do a spoken word performance 2 feet away from me. Sunday night I saw an amazing band from Japan called Buffalo Daughter. Saturday night I saw Cibo Matto.
All of this in four days. Only in New York. This is why, if you are a creative person, NYC is still one of the best places to be.
I have to say that Iggy singing Transmission was really powerful and cool.
Mike Gary doing his spoken word piece about Tony Wilson while Bernard, Phil, and Tom played KW1 with the string quartet was really lovely.
When Iggy, backed by the Patti Smith Band, did Sister Midnight, Phil did some cool synth stuff.
Here they are doing Californian Grass. I love how Iggy sounds on this. When Bernard announces the song..the first person who screams "YEAH!"..that is my voice, haha. I was definitely geeking out. I think Tom, Phil, and Bernard were probably geeking out too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI1NtZq0NN0Here is Transmission:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYEg01Iz2Fw&list=UUI4GCwKTmWxE6F5TQQCIMFwEdited by user 12 March 2014 08:39:29(UTC)
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