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Some rules: Rock concerts don’t start on time, on-stage collaborations can’t work and never should the opening band upstage the headliner. But neither the Flaming Lips nor Beck, who passed through the Orpheum Monday night on their joint alt-pop-rock tour, are known for adhering to standards. The Lips emerged in an ecstatic parade of video, smoke, exploding confetti and zebra costumes and indeed, right on time too. Their charge was to warm up the crowd and make way for the Magical Wizard of Rhythm himself. They had to hurry...
...next hardest working showman is Wayne Coyne, whose boundless energy is just as suited to his amazing studio work as to the flashlights he wields onstage behind Beck. But even though both performers are at the top of their respective games as musical scientists, their experiment at the Orpheum proved little about their strength as lab partners. While the music was great, the chemistry seemed lacking. It’s not hard to imagine that Beck, the moody perfectionist who is used to conducting his own cut-and-paste band, may have felt a bit jarred by the Lips?...
evotees of Ryan Adams faced a vexing question at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre last Tuesday: how to sit through Tegan and Sara’s unsettlingly trite performance while waiting for the main attraction. Happily, their set was brief, and merely prologue to an otherwise sparkling evening...
...Boston, as with several cities on the “Licks” tour, the group played in three different sized venues. This novel approach had the Stones playing the medium sized FleetCenter, the large Gillette Stadium and the tiny Orpheum Theater. In each case, the band tailored its setlist to its audience; at the big stadium they played mostly hits, at the midsize venue a combination of well and lesser known songs and at the small club rarities for the diehards...
...Orpheum Theater...