From the Comatorium:
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we had just listened to the BR vinyl for the first time, to get ready for the show, and i have to say that the vinyl is so much superior to the mp3/leak that we have. i mean, no shit, but you can hear so much more in the record. GOOD JOB, MIXMASTER MATT!
BR was fucking amazing. we saw them a while back (last fall??) in oakland, when they were a very new entity, and i can say that at this point they are MUCH tighter, and way more jammy, and omar is fucking loving the guitar again (he was rather minimalist with it at the last show we saw). bosnian rainbows is a stellar live band. teri, with her crazy tinman-esque robo dance moves and her weird faces and STILL being sexy as fuck (how does she do that??) is quite the front woman.
at one point deantoni and nicci were having some kind of trouble with cords/keyboards whatever (i couldn’t really see) and she and omar just seamlessly built like a 2 minute jam with him noodling and her singing random shit until D and N could get it figured out, and then they went into the next song without skipping a beat.
before turtleneck, she pointed into the crowd and brought some dude up on stage, saying “are you my little turtleneck??”, and got him up there and rubbed his forehead or something. it was so awesome/weird. near the end of the show, she was interacting with some metal-head looking dude who was headbanging over the balcony to the left of the stage. they waved their arms at each other and mouthed words i couldn’t make out, it was like two people doing the “we’re not worthy” wayne’s world motion at each other. (side note, i was surprised how much head banging there was at the show! especially over the balcony).
cry for you and father/mother/sister (whatever that one’s called) were stand out tracks for me. BUT those are some of my favorites on the album, so there you go. both of them had extended jammy sequences as well, and omar rocked the fuck out. the crowd was loving it.
and, that was literally the most chicks i’ve seen at a rock show, especially anything including members of volta. seriously, all the omar/volta/and even the zavalaz shows i’ve been to were quite dudely as far as audience makeup. sooooo single dudes on here take note: BR brings out the ladies.
while definitely not the mars volta (and not as awesome, because nothing can be as awesome, imo) BR definitely gives me a similar feeling to volta in their live shows. the ecstatic, eyes glued to the stage, undivided attention on this front-man/woman, rocking out, dancing. i really am not a dancer, but something about BR is just so fucking GROOVY!
but, now i’ve had i cry for you stuck in my head, literally, since the show was over like 12 hours ago. so there’s that. it doesn’t sound as good in my head as it does live.”
