YAY!!! Tonight I am going to actually see them play! THE STROKES!! Can you believe it? It’s so so so so cool.
Tickets have been sold out for eons, but I managed to score one from an ebay scalper for $20 more than the original price. Whatever, it’s the STROKES!
Um, woohoo.
LC
Very exciting. I was at a local band’s show recently where the reverb was off. The lead singer fixed it, and then said he was really not trying for a “Strokesesque-bohemian recording feel.” You know you’ve reached critical mass as a band when “esque” is added to your name.
Well I can’t. There, are you happy now?
Well we’ll just have to sit here in the corner pouting, xavier. Do you think i can grab the ticket if i pounce on Lucki Chaarms? no? just a thought. Ah well, I’ll just have to go to that manics gig instead…
I’m fairly sure I saw the Strokes as a warm-up act for You Am I in Sydney (the Enmore? The Metro?) a few years ago. I remember telling someone that I kinda liked their stuff, I just hoped they got the reverb fixed before the main band came out…
I feel REALLY sorry for you.
Aww…let’s be nice to Luckii. The Strokes aren’t my cup of tea, but I’m happy that someone who really likes them gets to see them.
Hope you had fun. 
Damn it–I knew you had two vowels somewhere weird in your name, Lucki ChAArms. Crap.
I saw the Strokes about a month ago. They have the best opening act: Har Mar Superstar. Oh man; this guy is like if Jack Black had an oversexed twin brother who sang R&B. It’s awesome. Almost better than the Strokes themselves!
Needless to say, they rocked. And I have class in a couple hours.
G’night.
And no bagging on The Strokes! Or wire hangers.
LC
There is no justice in the world when the Strokes are the “Next Big Thing” and The Dirtbombs are fading into obscurity.
The Strokes are the “next big thing”? I think they’re kind of the current big thing! Do you think they’ll get any bigger than they are right now? I doubt it.
LC
I hope not.
Really. I hate the Strokes. Out of the current collections of bands being touted, give me The Datsuns over all of them. Incredible band. It’s like Deep Purple never when Classical…
Now, do all you people who profess to hate The Strokes so much really find their music that annoying, or is it more what they stand for, i.e. the current load of bands that may or may not be any good but are hyped up by critics and press and hordes of insanely devoted fans?
Or is it more like you don’t like them because you think there’s another band that deserves what they have, like Twisty’s comment on the Datsuns?
LC
I don’t think their ability matches what the press have hyped them to be. Extensive hype is worthless if it isn’t matched by talent.
Few bands have managed that.
That said, I dont think that the Datsuns could do that either. I just like them most out of what is being touted.
Thankfully, most of the local bands I hear are trying to be more Rock than Strokes at the moment.
The Strokes suck even more now then they did back when the called themselves The Romantics.
Chill.
You might suffer apoplexy.
