March 29 2007: Sebadoh, the Bent Moustache - Pearly Street Ballroom, Northampton MA

Well, I should have gone to Boston to see the Long Winters. But instead I stayed in Northampton for a nice low-key evening with Sebadoh, who were awful. At least I didn't pay for it or have to drive two hours each way. But I should have gone to Boston.

The sound was horrible, the band didn't really seem to give much of a fuck about anything performance-related, and the night's highlight occurred when this bald guy tried to dive into the crowd from the stage. But this was no stage-diving-type show, because the crowd was mostly bored and motionless and certainly in no mood to catch anyone. Plus it happened in between songs. So the band stops playing their song and then this guy gets a good running start and everyone sees what's about to happen and have plenty of time to move out of the guy's way and he dives in head first like he's at the swimming pool and hits the floor with a huge fucking THUD.

But I did finally see J Mascis around town. And the openers were from Holland and were pretty good. And I guess "Vampire" was ok, and I guess that parts of "Brand New Love" and "Rebound" were ok too. But that's about it. Show pretty much sucked the whole way through.