Because Alex asked me to give him a report.

Just a bit of background info before I get into the report. Although I won those tickets to go see Chevelle, I'm not a huge fan or anything. I like what I've heard on the radio, and I've heard a few other songs of theirs, but by no means was I ready to sing all the words to all the songs they would play. So I decided to dl some songs, put them on a CD and listen to it nonstop for a few days to see if I could get any of them to stick in my head. I did that, but then I decided to look up the lyrics. After reading through the lyrics for their second album (Wonder What's Next), I realized I really dislike how their lyrics are more thought fragments than sentences (or even phrases sometimes). Okay, so that bugged me. And how redundant some of the lyrics were. (Which I was struggling with because I don't generally dislike repetitiveness in song lyrics.) And I got a little disappointed because here I won these awesome tickets and now that I'm listening to more than a handful of their songs, I'm not really liking it as much as I thought I did. But, I thought, okay, maybe I can deal with this 'cause I won't be reading the lyrics when they're playing live.

Oh, but then. I realized they're religious. ::groan:: Religious. Why?! One or two songs illustrate this pretty clearly. Now, this doesn't prevent me from liking the songs I already liked (like, The Red and Forfeit especially). And it won't prevent me from liking new songs of theirs that would have suited me. But at the same time, I find myself taking a mental step back from them. In what way this step manifests physically (or "practically" might be a better word), if at all, I don't know. It might just be a personal disappointment (disillusionment, somehow) and that's it.

So, now on to the concert reports:

( Monday night at the Bowery: Instruction | Strata | Chevelle )

( Tuesday night at the K-Rock Studio: Chevelle )