Trusty Chords

Last night Meg and I were in Brooklyn, hipster capitol of the east coast (Seattle of course being the west coast's) to see Dave Hause, a very intoxicated Brendan Kelly, Jenny Owens Young, and special surprise guest, who wasn't really that much of a surprise, Brian Fallon.

There was a comedian too who's name escapes me, and that makes me sad because I nearly pissed myself cause I was laughing so hard.

But I noticed a trend last night that I've been seeing for years and its actually start g to bother me as much as I know it bothers some bands. Bootlegging. I think Dave Hause put it best last night, "That he can't even make a record without people knowing all the songs before it's released" (I am of course paraphrasing because I'll be damned if I can remember back to 2am this morning).

He's right of course, in this day and age you go to a show and take out you "YouTube Machine" (totally how I'm going g to refer to smart phones from this day forward) and instantly everyone in the world can see a very drunken Brendan Kelly playing Skulls (awesome BTW)

I feel like that's fucking shitty. Firstly if the band or artist wanted to put out a video of a song they are working on, then they'd do that. We as the audience are privileged when an artist plays a new song for us. They're not asking us for anything other then out price of our tickets and maybe some beer. They deserve to be respected and when they ask you not to film the show and put it on YouTube, don't fucking film the show and put it on YouTube.

Brian and Jenny covered Ring of Fire last night, it was awesome and cool, and I'll never hear it again but I remember that it was both awesome and cool. The Revival Tour Dave covered Emma with Dan from Alkaline Trio, it happens to be one of my favorite songs. I recorded it and the only people that have scene it are me and my wife. Why because its not for distribution, its not something I have the right to show others.

I'm treading a fine line here since I've totally bootlegged before and I'm sure everyone has a bootleg or two. But the difference is that I snuck a tape recorder (minidisk player) and covertly, (in the good on a sweatshirt) recorded a band, (blink182) and only like ten people heard that, cause the fucking internet wasn't ruining things.

-N-