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The Frames at The Fillmore in San Francisco November 28, 2010

They rock, anthemic and memorably melodious at the same time. Sing along is a must. And always Glen will bring out a song that can quiet a room down such that you can hear a pin drop. Their concert has everything, and who would've thought that songs about disappointment and anguish and longing and pain can make you feel so happy and alive.

Here are some pictures I took to remember them by. Here's to another 20 years!

Tim Easton opened the show.

Set List
I know I have some songs out of order and may be missing one or two. If someone was there and knows the complete order and list please leave a comment, thanks.

(I really wished that they had played Santa Maria, that song is so poigant, sad and epic.)

Headlong
Seven Days Mile
God Bless Mom
Stars Are Underground
What Happens When the Heart Just Stops
Finally
Happy
Lay me down
Rent Day Blues/Rhinestone Cowboy
Pavement Tune
Star Star/Pure Imagination
Revelate
People Get Ready

Encore 1

Hair Shirt
Early Bird
Friends and Foe
Hey Day

Encore 2

You Can't Hide Your Love with Joe
Your Face/Redemption Song
Fitzcarraldo
Bananaman

 


When Glen stepped to the edge of the stage to sing this song, like the busker he is, the house went so quiet that you can hear the air conditioner humming from the ceiling.

The Frames closed out the show with a song that Glen wrote for his niece, who found his music to be too depressing. She was eating a banana, so he wrote her a banana song.

Photos - at the Bottom of the Hill in SF on August 7 with Finish Ticket, Young the Giant, and Man in Space.

Who needs more fuzzy photos of bands in out of focus, low light exposures anyways?

This was the first time since last year 's terrific Swell Season concert at the Oakland Paramount Theater that I was able to catch a live music show (Glen will be touring as  The Frames later this year, (edited to add: and will play at The Fillmore on Sunday November 28.) I've been working nonstop, and saw this show on the radar but wasn't sure if I would be able to go. Fortunately, this show fell on the weekend of a mini-almost a week long vacation that was only finalized near the end of July. I knew then that I would be able to go, being that I won't be tired or trying to spend Saturday to catch up on things I didn't get to do during the week. Then, this. So, turned out, music was the respite that I needed.


Re: the show:

I didn't get any photos of the first band, the group Fever Charm, but they must be thrilled to perform at BOTH as they are very young.

The lead singer of Finish Ticket had a little Jim Morrison-y theatrics (at least, the JM as portrayed by Val Kilmer, I think) but fortunately, they have a polished and big, bright indie sound. They announced at the end of their performance that each member will be going to college and won't be performing together for a while. Best of luck on their college careers! In the meantime, go check it out their web site, download their cds and add to their college funds!

Young the Giant, another young band from Southern California but called San Francisco their second home, is quickly on the rise, having recently finished a cross-country tour with Minus the Bear and Everest (a fav, check out their "Ghost Notes" and latest "On Approach"). Lead by the vocally powerful yet smooth, and charismatic Sameer Gadhia, the band has a focus and maturity in their songwriting beyond their years. Their high energy throughout the numbers I'm sure will only grow their reputation as a "must see live" band. They played two songs from their ep, the favorites "Cough Syrup" and "Shake My Hand", and the rest from their new materials. They finished the set with their latest single, "My Body", turning that infectiously catchy tune into a highly epic rock. This band is definitely onto something big. If you can get your hands on the ep Shake My Hand (under their old name "The Jakes"), please do, you will want to listen to it over and over. Their highly anticipated album is scheduled for release in October, and "My Body" can be downloaded for free from their web site, http://www.youngthegiant.com/
 
Closing out the show was Man in Space, here for their CD debut celebration. Another local group that I have never heard of (not surprising, as I don't get out much), Man in Space is a side project comprised of almost all the members from the group Dizzy Balloon. They are really fun, and lead singer Jonny had a smile that never left his face. Also, they did an awesome rendition of "A Day In A Life" by Beatles that brought everyone to their feet (oh! we're already standing). Man in Space will be heading to the East Coast for a tour.

Photos of:
Finish Ticket (1 to 5)
Young the Giant (6 to 10)
Man in Space (11)

 

Of Mere Being - A Poem by Wallace Stevens

The palm at the end of the mind,

Beyond the last thought, rises

In the bronze decor,

 

A gold-feathered bird

Sings in the palm, without human meaning,

Without human feeling, a foreign song.

 

You know then that it is not the reason

That makes us happy or unhappy.

The bird sings. Its feathers shine.

 

The palm stands on the edge of space.

The wind moves slowly in the branches.

The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.

 

Some photos from the San Francisco MOMA 75th Anniversary Exhibition

1) Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905
2) Henri Matisse, Esquisse pour "Le bonheur de vivre" (Sketch for "The Joy of Life"), 1905-06
3) Franz Marc, Gebirge/Steiniger Weg (Mountains/Rocky Path), 1911-12
4) Paul Klee, Fast getroffen (Nearly Hit), 1928
5) Rene Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal values), 1952
6) Clyfford Still, 1938-N-No.1, 1938
7) Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960, 1960
8) Nathan Oliveira, Adolescent by the Bed, 1959
9) David Park, Man in a T-Shirt, 1958
10) Elmer Bischoff, Orange Sweater, 1955
11) Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled (Self-Portrait, Black Mountain), 1952
12) Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting (Three Panel), 1951
13) Robert Rauschenberg, Collection, 1954
14) Jay DeFeo, Incision, 1958-61
15)  Bruce Connor, Sound of One Hand Angel, 1974
16) Jim Dine, Blue Clamp 1981
17) James Rosenquist, Leaky Ride for Dr. Leakey, 1983
18) Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988
19) Marilyn Minter, Strut, 2004-05
20) Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1989
21) Barry McGee, Untitled (Installation) 1996
22) Detailed
23) Rigo 23, "Lost Duck" (part of a series of "Found Posters")
24) Chuck Close, James, 2004

 

Ars Poetica by Jorge Luis Borges

 

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Chuck Close, "James" 2002. Oil on canvas

 

To look at the river made of time and water

And remember that time is another river,

To know that we lost like the river

And that faces dissolve like water.

 

To be aware that waking dreams it is not asleep

While it is another dream, and that the death

That our flesh goes in fear of is that death

Which comes every night and is called sleep.

 

To see in the day or in the year a symbol

Of the days of man and of his years,

To transmute the outrage of the years

Into a music, a murmur of voices, and a symbol,

 

To see in death sleep, and in the sunset

A said gold--such is poetry,

Which is immortal and poor. Poetry

Returns like the dawn and the sunset.

 

At times in the evenings a face

Looks at us out of the depths of a mirror;

Art should be like that mirror

Which reveals to us our own face.

 

They say that Ulysses, sated with marvels,

Wept tears of love a the sight of his Ithaca,

Green and humble. Art is that Ithaca

Of green eternity, not of marvels.

 

It is also like the river with no end

That flows and remains and is the mirror of one same

Inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same

And is another, like the river with no end.

 

(translated by W. S. Merwin)