rabbitsounds
04-29-2007, 04:48 AM
So, I am here, kind of lifted and listening to 02.24.07 Alington Theater
The guest (Matt Macavey*sp) is on stage right now...this sounds like a wonderful event...so positive...then i began to have a cold chill...what would happen if this next album blew up the band???
Then I can only ever get to see them in huge arena's...not yet (I scream). I just have begun to realize that ALO is tapped into my existence right now...I feel like that kid again...i know the band has been around for quite some time...but i am just learning to discover them for the 1st time!!!!
I was lucky enough to get plugged into the Grateful Dead in 1989. It was the Grateful Dead that taught me what music was. I was lyrically learning about life. Jerry and the boys open my ears to what music was, and what it could do to me. Music and I began our courtship in the Dead. It was then I was lured away into a life of Phish in 1993, but I was 23 and wanted to rock as hard as I could. Phish was a great transisition out of the Dead and what it became. Phish kept me charged!!!! I loved the music and it was giving back to me in ways that, when I think back, made me feel like Mickey Moust in Fantasia controling the stars. Then Life changed. 1999. The world twisted and imploded and I was left where I am now, however I still had music. However, it was more memories now. Those old pictures of when you and the one you loved were standing at the Grand Canyon, by the Statue of Liberty, underneath the St. Louis Arch.
5 Years pass.
Some say you only find true love once, and rarely twice, and no one ever talks about a third time...but then it happened. In 2004 I walked into, literally, the revival tent was quiet. Just a stirring from the last band, and to this day I don't even really remember who they were. Then on stage the announcer came on to introduce Particle. Then it happened again...what was this music comming from the stage...it was a melody that lasted forever no words, just song. For the 1st time in 5 years I felt that there was really hope. I could really still find something that would mean everything. It all made sense. Well, needless to say three hours later, I was hooked. I ran home and jumped on the BreezeBoard (which i felt should have always been called the Particle Board)...i signed in...i was member number 420...was it fate...yes it was. The board embraced me....they sent me cd's, posters, and just good vibes. Names like Spacekitty, FunkMonkey, and patch full of insane other characters...the rabbit was at home. It was on the 3rd of July in Des Moines that it all came together. They were playing this stage behind a hotel we were staying at. INSANE. There they are. Hanging out in the hotel...I was floored. I think it was my 6th or 7th time seeing them...and now I was ready to approach them and say...you guys are really doing it...you have given me hope in the cold.
The first person I met was Charlie Hitchcock. Now, I can't tell you what an amazing job he was doing with that band just listen to it yourself...get any Wakarusa show or Labor Day 2005. Charlie had been with them for 5 years and he was right on in his groove. He was the fire that burned bright in the band, I felt. Of course, Steve's keyboards were righteous and the energy between them was gasoline. (even thought brent mydland was fantastic, I always went to see Jerry. I loved page, but Trey took me there) However, I was waiting for those great Charlie jams. He had this tone, this growl that no one can compare to. He balanced a line of electronic sound and gritty blues guitar. His playing and the rest of the band were recharging me...making me feel young again. I was amazed that I could feel this way for a band again...I mean after the Grateful Dead and Phish...it is pretty hard to find anything that great...but it seemed I had...little did I know that later that year, after Xingolati, my main component was going to be removed from the band. Now, don't get me wrong, in the past year and a half, they have moved forward. The absence of Charlie is felt, but people have accepted it and moved on. They have embraced Ben, and rightly so, he is talented. One thing that has happend to them is that they have begun singing...that's right if you have not heard particle before...pre 2006 they did not sing. It's cool, but lyrics are more than words they are content...it was like i had been seperated from music...was brought back into it, just to be teased. Then I remembered a show I saw back in 2005. ALO!!!
One day I was cleaning my apartment and stumbled across the disc labled 11.07.05..."man," i thought "seems so long". I put it on...and began to listen and listen...and then all of sudden I began to really pay attention...wait a minute. Something is happening....something that O.A.R, WSP, Yonder, Keller, SCI, and a flood of other bands that are either intials or strange assemblance of words DID NOT HAVE. Was it happening again?
That brings me to now...I think it is.
As I spend this Saturday Night "relaxing" and listening to this cd that I just burned (thanks Matt)...I find myself excited again. I am going to Omaha next month to see them!!! Then they are playing at Wakarusa...and I will get to see them twice...I am excited again...and here is this forum so new...and already I have laid my heart into it...this thread hopefully will one day be lost deep in pages and pages of posts...until then...it just remains...another new post.
Thanks for reading my rant...those that did...and hopefully ALO will allow us all to one day gather and enjoy this my new sensation together. It is its own spirituality...it is its own reward....and it must be what being married for decades must feel like...right now, I feel that rekindled fire for music in my soul...now lets just see how bright it burns.
The guest (Matt Macavey*sp) is on stage right now...this sounds like a wonderful event...so positive...then i began to have a cold chill...what would happen if this next album blew up the band???
Then I can only ever get to see them in huge arena's...not yet (I scream). I just have begun to realize that ALO is tapped into my existence right now...I feel like that kid again...i know the band has been around for quite some time...but i am just learning to discover them for the 1st time!!!!
I was lucky enough to get plugged into the Grateful Dead in 1989. It was the Grateful Dead that taught me what music was. I was lyrically learning about life. Jerry and the boys open my ears to what music was, and what it could do to me. Music and I began our courtship in the Dead. It was then I was lured away into a life of Phish in 1993, but I was 23 and wanted to rock as hard as I could. Phish was a great transisition out of the Dead and what it became. Phish kept me charged!!!! I loved the music and it was giving back to me in ways that, when I think back, made me feel like Mickey Moust in Fantasia controling the stars. Then Life changed. 1999. The world twisted and imploded and I was left where I am now, however I still had music. However, it was more memories now. Those old pictures of when you and the one you loved were standing at the Grand Canyon, by the Statue of Liberty, underneath the St. Louis Arch.
5 Years pass.
Some say you only find true love once, and rarely twice, and no one ever talks about a third time...but then it happened. In 2004 I walked into, literally, the revival tent was quiet. Just a stirring from the last band, and to this day I don't even really remember who they were. Then on stage the announcer came on to introduce Particle. Then it happened again...what was this music comming from the stage...it was a melody that lasted forever no words, just song. For the 1st time in 5 years I felt that there was really hope. I could really still find something that would mean everything. It all made sense. Well, needless to say three hours later, I was hooked. I ran home and jumped on the BreezeBoard (which i felt should have always been called the Particle Board)...i signed in...i was member number 420...was it fate...yes it was. The board embraced me....they sent me cd's, posters, and just good vibes. Names like Spacekitty, FunkMonkey, and patch full of insane other characters...the rabbit was at home. It was on the 3rd of July in Des Moines that it all came together. They were playing this stage behind a hotel we were staying at. INSANE. There they are. Hanging out in the hotel...I was floored. I think it was my 6th or 7th time seeing them...and now I was ready to approach them and say...you guys are really doing it...you have given me hope in the cold.
The first person I met was Charlie Hitchcock. Now, I can't tell you what an amazing job he was doing with that band just listen to it yourself...get any Wakarusa show or Labor Day 2005. Charlie had been with them for 5 years and he was right on in his groove. He was the fire that burned bright in the band, I felt. Of course, Steve's keyboards were righteous and the energy between them was gasoline. (even thought brent mydland was fantastic, I always went to see Jerry. I loved page, but Trey took me there) However, I was waiting for those great Charlie jams. He had this tone, this growl that no one can compare to. He balanced a line of electronic sound and gritty blues guitar. His playing and the rest of the band were recharging me...making me feel young again. I was amazed that I could feel this way for a band again...I mean after the Grateful Dead and Phish...it is pretty hard to find anything that great...but it seemed I had...little did I know that later that year, after Xingolati, my main component was going to be removed from the band. Now, don't get me wrong, in the past year and a half, they have moved forward. The absence of Charlie is felt, but people have accepted it and moved on. They have embraced Ben, and rightly so, he is talented. One thing that has happend to them is that they have begun singing...that's right if you have not heard particle before...pre 2006 they did not sing. It's cool, but lyrics are more than words they are content...it was like i had been seperated from music...was brought back into it, just to be teased. Then I remembered a show I saw back in 2005. ALO!!!
One day I was cleaning my apartment and stumbled across the disc labled 11.07.05..."man," i thought "seems so long". I put it on...and began to listen and listen...and then all of sudden I began to really pay attention...wait a minute. Something is happening....something that O.A.R, WSP, Yonder, Keller, SCI, and a flood of other bands that are either intials or strange assemblance of words DID NOT HAVE. Was it happening again?
That brings me to now...I think it is.
As I spend this Saturday Night "relaxing" and listening to this cd that I just burned (thanks Matt)...I find myself excited again. I am going to Omaha next month to see them!!! Then they are playing at Wakarusa...and I will get to see them twice...I am excited again...and here is this forum so new...and already I have laid my heart into it...this thread hopefully will one day be lost deep in pages and pages of posts...until then...it just remains...another new post.
Thanks for reading my rant...those that did...and hopefully ALO will allow us all to one day gather and enjoy this my new sensation together. It is its own spirituality...it is its own reward....and it must be what being married for decades must feel like...right now, I feel that rekindled fire for music in my soul...now lets just see how bright it burns.