Bush
Okay, so I went to the Bush/Veruca Salt/Souls concert
at the Concord Pavilion on June 10th, 1997. If you hate Bush, why did you
go? you may ask. Well, I went for two reasons:
1. For the novelty of it. It was Bush. They were playing at a place 10
minutes from my house. A place that NOBODY plays. The line up for the summer
includes Tina Turner, Beach Boys and Kenny G. Come on man. I couldn't miss
this.
2. My mom wanted to see Gavin and try the nachos at the Pavilion.
So we ended up buying tickets to the concert. It was me, both of my parents
(yeah, they go to all the concerts with me) and my friend Paul.
Souls were on first. All I can remember of them is that they played that
stupid Sock Monkey song and the moshers (a grand total of 10 people) were
just standing around talking to each other.
Then came Veruca Salt. The only songs I recognized were Volcano Girls,
Seether (which they started off by playing hella slow) and Shutterbug.
They were okay, though you'd swear that with the money they made off of
Eight Arms to Hold You, they would be able to afford bras and underwear.
Ick.
Now, I dont dislike Bush because of their music, in fact, I used to like
them. They just got played out. Seriously played out. But I really enjoyed
this concert. Why? Bush is really cool live. Since they only have two albums
and have to be on for
two-something hours so they lengthened the songs, more solos, longer beginings
etc. I think they opened with Greedy Fly but I can't remember. Twice during
the set, everyone but Gavin left and he got to play some slow songs, Glycerine...ect.
Other than that, they played a hella long version of Comedown and all their
other singles. ACK! One thing for sure I remember! All during the
concert I was whining cause I wanted to hear Little Things. The concert
was going to end at about 11:30 but since it was a school day (and a night
before finals!) and Paul was living in another town 20 minutes away and
had to be home at 11:30, we were going to leave early. I begged to stay
to see what the last song was....and it was Little Things! Dammit! But
we got to stay to hear it so I was happy.
