This is where I was last night. It was an evening full of happy sounds and confetti flying all about the room. (This video really takes off around the 3-minute mark.) It was… inspiring.

(Note: I didn’t shoot the video or anything.)

8 Responses to “Showbox Time with The Polyphonic Spree”

1. AB Harris Says:
   July 17th, 2007 at 1:10 am

   Not sure if you were being facetious about being inspired, but I was somewhat bored.

   I’ll take an evening with Don Caballero instead… and Don Cab doesn’t even have vocals.

   -World Class Listening Problem

2. Steve Says:
   July 17th, 2007 at 1:23 am

   It wasn’t one of the best moments of the show, but it’s all I found on YouTube. It’s also one of their earlier, overly-simplistic hippie-dippie songs. The newer ones were just mind-blowing, particularly when all 23-people in the band kick in at once.

3. Sparky Says:
   July 17th, 2007 at 5:45 am

   UR A HIPPIE

4. GyRo567 Says:
   July 17th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

   I saw ZZ Top a few months ago. It’s a weird feeling when an entire crowd suddenly starts shouting “Well I’m baaaaa*aaaaaa*aaaaa*aaaa*aaad, and I’m nationwide!” in perfect synchronization. When you’ve been around in the Hall of Fame for years, people tend to know all your stuff I guess. Being something of a musical outsider, I just enjoyed the show, which was awesome. I also managed to find two vinyl albums the morning before the concert.

5. Karen Says:
   July 17th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

   Arnt you glad you left the eastside for an evening? The Showbox was a fantastic start!

6. amy Says:
   July 19th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

   i adore polyphonic spree! i didn’t know you liked them too… waiting for them to get down to FL, and yes, i am a hippie at heart too.

7. steve Says:
   July 19th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

   Excellent! You should have a great time; the show was fab. (And it’s early in the tour; they’ll have most of the kinks worked out by the time they hit your neighborhood.)

   They wore the robes for the second half of the show; the first half was in the scary military outfits.

8. GyRo567 Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

   I went to a local record store in search of The Fragile Army on vinyl for just $15-20 (their online prices are often higher, so it’s hard to tell) but it was sadly sold out the day right before I got there. I did stumble across a 31 year old SEALED copy of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More From the Road with pretty much all of their great stuff live on it…

   The search for cheap but new-from-this-decade vinyl continues. =(

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