Monday, February 19, 2007

You Decide

I think I went to the concert that is the Yin to the Yang of the Justin Timberlake concert. On Valentine's Day I went to the Fusion concert at the Aladdin. The concert featured Girl Talk, Spank Rock, Lupe Fiasco, Gnarls Barkley, and Kanye West. Mainly we wanted to see Kanye West. So, Girl Talk and Spank Rock. You should try to find video footage of these two bands because it is pretty incredible.
We showed up to the concert while Girl Talk was playing. The stage was complete disorder. There were random people everywhere, dressed in random costumes...a glitzy cheerleader, someone wearing peach leggings and a green shirt. When I was kid, we were visiting Kansas, and on the Spanish television station, they were showing wrestling. It was really crazy wrestling though. There were the regular-type wrestlers in the ring, but then there were also tons of little guys in ewok type suits running around. That is what Girl Talk reminded me of. No one was dancing in sync. They all appeared to be dancing to different songs. The highlight of the night became the fact that during every pause the rest of the night (for stage changes, etc.) Girl Talk played more music. It was unbelievable.
There also are not really words for Spank Rock. Maybe their name is enough. I must say that I have never seen an outfit quite like the one that one of the lead rappers was donning. He was wearing gray leggings (yes, leggings on a man during a concert,) with high top sneakers. The velcro strap on his sneaker was undone and flopping around. He proceeded to take his clothes off during the show. He also periodically laid down in a sort of "come hither" pose in the center of the stage. Their show was ended when they appeared to get into some sort of fight. Gray leggings lost his shoes, was dragged across the stage by his leg by the other guy, and then stomped off the stage in what appeared to be anger.
As for Lupe Fiasco and Gnarls Barkley, they were fine; had they not been crippled by the insanely long stage changes and distortion, I may even have really enjoyed them.
And, I did really like Kanye West. The rest of the experience was probably worth it for that.
But seriously-worst concert ever...

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