I just learned Queens of the Stone Age and NIN are touring and they’ll be at the MCI center in DC in early November. I asked el hubbo to go but, while he’s a big QotSA fan, he does not like NIN (I know, right?!).
I want to go but almost none of my friends shares my taste in music. I really don’t want to go by myself. I know a few posters in the Mid-Atlantic area have expressed an interest in QotSA and NIN before. Hopefully, you’ll want to see them in concert.
This is the first concert I will have been to in over ten years. The last time I went to one was when Busta Rhymes, Leaders of the New School, A Tribe Called Quest and others were in Baltimore.
As far as the price, I’m not sure. When I searched Ticketmaster for tickets for NIN anywhere, I see that for a concert at Hollywood Bowl in CA for 10/1, tickets are sixty bucks; fifty plus ten for a convenience charge. I assume they’ll be in that neighborhood, then.
Sounds like a good show to me, albeit the price is a little steep. I’ll see if some of my friends want to come along, though. Boy do I love me some NIN. QotSA, they’re pretty good. Good opener, ha!
Very tempting, though I doubt the price will be right.
From the NIN website it looks like the DC date is November 2nd, which is a Wednesday. Given the price, the fact that I’d have to bum a ride with someone from Baltimore, and the fact that I’d have class at 8 or 9 the next morning… but those two bands are SO tempting. Hmph.
The metro has a stop right at the MCI center. You can take amtrak to union station and metro from union station to MCI center, only a two stop journey.
How late does Amtrak run trains from DC back to Baltimore? I know I had trouble getting back once when I was up at College Park for a game with some friends, and ended up staying with said friends.
So, this is tonight, and I’m about to go catch a commuter train to head down to DC, get some dinner with a friend, and go see this show. You gonna be there, UrbanChic? Anyone else?
How was the show? Sadly, I couldn’t go. Did the Queens kick ass? Did they play You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire? Ah hell, why don’t you just tell me what they played.
The show was very good, not great. The Queens kicked a medium amount of ass, which disappointed me a little because I was hoping for copious amounts of ass-kicking from them. They played a pretty short set, compared to what I sort of hoped for anyways (opening band was decent and played ~40-45 minutes with little to no crowd support, Queens played ~45-50, NIN played two hours or just over… with the early starting time, the concert was out by 11:15 or so). The stuff they played from their two most recent CDs sounded the best, IMO - a lot of the older stuff just sort of sounded loud compared to the more recent tracks. I don’t think they played that song, though. Don’t remember the complete set list, but Everybody Knows That You Are Insane, Go With The Flow, Burn the Witch, Little Sister, and (especially) No One Knows all rocked ridiculous amounts (okay, you can REALLY tell I like the newer stuff more, now!). Overall, though, they seemed just a tiny bit short of that “it”… that little extra charisma where the entire place sort of gets sucked into the show.
NIN, on the other hand, had oodles of “it” and then some. They played a pretty standard mix of With Teeth and classic stuff. With the exception of a sort of ‘break’ in the middle - where they closed some curtains around the stage and had about a twenty minute ‘bridge’ of… well… songs that I’d probably have enjoyed a little more if I were stoned - they were absolutely electric (that isn’t to say that that break was musically bad or anything, but it definitely had a drop-off in the energy of the audience). The crowd was most into Closer, The Hand That Feeds, and Head Like a Hole (the last two were the last two songs they played), obviously, but a lot of the newer stuff like You Know What You Are and Only also worked really well live.
If I can find some complete set lists over the next couple of days I’ll post them, if you want. Sorry that you weren’t able to go At least the Queens have a live DVD coming out in a couple of weeks… hopefully that will be really good.
At least the Queens have a live DVD coming out in a couple of weeks… hopefully that will be really good.