Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance" because it was more than just a concert. After The Push Stars--a mellow-pop Boston-area band on the rise--opened, there was a suspect 20-minute delay, and smoke started to filter out into the audience from backstage. The crowd was getting tense, eager to see what Guster had in store. At last, the three band members, dressed in tuxedos and seated in aluminum space-age chairs, descended to the smoke filled stage to "Also Sprach Zarathustra," the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey. As I soon learned from the band members, the audience was there...
...still be wondering why this concert was so great. It was not just that the band is on the verge of exploding onto the mainstream music scene, although with super-producer Steve Lillywhite of U2 and Dave Matthews fame at the helm, the trio is undoubtedly going places. It was that the audience actually got involved in the show. At the end of "Airport," a cascade of ping-pong balls descended upon the crowd. Of course, throwing the balls at the band had become somewhat of a tradition at shows (the CD version of their single ends with the sounds...
Jimmy: "The scene played out like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later...
...Jimmy: "If you have ever caught a teensploitation at your local neighborhood cineplex, you can probably reproduce the scene in your mind: droves of well-dressed teenage girls scampering around with the excitement of an Energizer bunny, bands of raucous guys in their prep uniforms, worn A&F hat and all, and the occasional older hard-core fan, waiting for their hometown Tufts band to play...
...Seth: "The tuxedos, while sharp and stylish, seemed to cramp the style of the three happiest men ever to form a band from Somerville...