[DID NOT ATTEND: July 12, 2022] Barenaked Ladies / Toad the Wet Sprocket / Gin Blossoms [rescheduled from July 14, 2020 and July 13, 2021]
I haven’t seen Barenaked Ladies in a while. They always put on a good show, although i feel like I’ve enjoyed the last few a little bit less than the previous ones.
I always consider going to their Last Summer on Earth tours, but i typically dislike the other bands that are playing with them–usually 90s bands that I assumed were broken up. Which doesn’t really speak all that well of BNL (unless it speaks well of them trying to boost old bands).
I never liked Gin Blossoms.
I liked Toad the Wet Sprocket for their name (which comes from Monty Python) but couldn’t tell you a single song they sang.
So, it was very unlikley that I was going to this one. And I didn’t.
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As recent as mid-May this concert was still listed as happening in 2021, but when you clicked to buy tickets, the ticket pages said 2022.
I know that the whole “Last Summer on Earth” thing is a joke, but it’s getting a little creepy now.
I was kind of hoping they’d switch opening bands by now but, instead of this show, I think I’ll be seeing them at the Festival of Ballooning on July 24th instead.
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I have seen Barenaked Ladies almost more than any other band. I’ve seen them from way back in the early days to a few times in the last few years. They are reliably solid live (if not a bit predictable with their setlists).
We didn’t see them for last year’s “Last Summer on Earth” tour. They have been using that name for the last several years, it may be time to think of a new name, especially given the current state of the world. I wasn’t planning on going to this show mostly because I don’t really like the opening acts. And, honestly, unless the show was something special and different, it would entirely depend on the opening acts whether I went or not. Maybe they’ll mix them up for next year.
Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python skit which immediately made me like them. I think I ha a cassette of their first album, maybe. I haven’t really thought of them in years and remember them being kind of inoffensive. Oh, wait, they had a pretty big hit with “All I Want,” a sweet slightly alt folk rock song. I’ll bet there would be lots of lighters up for that song.
I really hated Gin Blossoms back in the 90s. They were so overplayed and hardly qualified as alternative or college rock, but they were lumped in that category. They had a number of songs that I probably know all the words to even though I never listened to them on purpose.
With a lineup change I’d consider seeing them next summer, especially if they changed the name of the tour.
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I had not heard of Pony before this show. I was interested in hearing the original opening band, Empath, who are a Philly band that play a kind of noise punk. Rolling Stone says “They sound like four people who sat in a room flexing their own freaky styles until — before they realized their interests might be wholly incompatible — the chaos created its own logic.” They sound pretty great.
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