{"id":460,"date":"2007-06-22T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:06:21","slug":"in_concert_the_-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/in_concert_the_-2.html","title":{"rendered":"In concert: The Fray."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huh, I guess I never told you about this one and I forgot to put it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/tuneslive2007.html\">the list <\/a>too.  I&#8217;ll have to fix that tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure why I bought these tickets.  If you only have two decent songs, even if they are REALLY good (which I do think those two songs are, and you know them if you watched Grey&#8217;s Anatomy), you&#8217;re really a fairly middle of the road band.  No shame in that, maybe your album\/tours shouldn&#8217;t have happened until a bunch of better songs on down the road.  I realize the industry is not run for long-term success, it&#8217;s their fault more than the band&#8217;s I&#8217;m sure.  Years from now, they could be a good band.  Right now, not so much.<\/p>\n<p><u>Opener:<\/u> <strong>OK Go<\/strong>.  Third time I&#8217;ve seen them.  Technically they are the better band but I guess they haven&#8217;t made as much money.  A much calmer set than their usual.  No dancing.  But sounded good.<\/p>\n<p><u>Banterwise for both bands:<\/u> Dudes. What is up with constantly telling the audience about how they are different\/better\/worse than the previous night&#8217;s audience?  a) who fucking cares about the idiots who came to last night&#8217;s show? and b) to us, this is the ONLY concert. Tonight. You\/Us. That&#8217;s it.  <strong>You should pretend that too.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh, I guess I never told you about this one and I forgot to put it on the list too. I&#8217;ll have to fix that tonight. Not sure why I bought these tickets. If you only have two decent songs, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/in_concert_the_-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}