most awesomest ever

so like i said, i was rushing off to the airport, not only to see hmc, but also so we could go to the la weekly detour festival in downtown lost angels yesterday. it was one of those big all day things, featuring beck, basement jaxx, queens of the stone age, redd kross, !!!, blackalicious, and others. we ran into a couple of people hmc knew from working at sony and hung out with them, so that was good, just hanging out and listening to the bands. we liked the like and blackalicious, and i was all ready to say that basement jaxx put on by far the best show, with everyone jumping around like crazy to “do your thing”, but then something else happened to blow my mind.

beck came out and played the maybe most awesomest show ever. sure, i’ve seen beck play live before, but not in years, and maybe not headline since that sony party for e3 way back in the day. and while i love him and he’s fun (for a scientologist), it’s not just his music or the big bears he brings out. and it wasn’t even the really rad song where his whole band accompanied him using silverware tapping on a table setting.

it was the puppets. during the whole concert, he had a video playing in back of him of an entire beck concert, but performed by marionettes. marionette beck with his marionette band, all playing the same songs that live beck was playing with his live band. and then we realized that THE MARIONETTE CONCERT WAS LIVE. he had actual puppeteers in the middle of the stage doing it all live and in person!

i can’t impart to you how incredible this was. it was beyond fantastic. i don’t have pictures of it, because i’m stupid and forgot my camera (and lots of other things this time, including my CONCERT TICKETS back home), but thank goodness for flickr.

if you can get a marionette version of you to follow you around and do what you do, i HIGHLY recommend it.

Posted at October 8, 2006 11:02 PM