New Years Rockin Eve (Eve)

Despite threatening to boycott new years eve this year, I ended up having the best one since the infamous Radiance NYE in 2002. It started with a practice run on the 30th with The Flaming Lips/Gnarls Barkley/Cat Power at the Bill Graham Civic. Cat Power was really disappointing. She had gotten a new band that sounded like they'd been playing together for about 7 minutes. It was also one of the worst mixed shows I've heard in ages. Gnarls was good times and the Lips were brilliant. They did a big mothership style entrance and treated us to the usual Lips confetti & dancing santas/aliens madness plus a midnight countdown and balloon drop. Top notch entertainment for sure.

For NYE I decided last minute to go see My Morning Jacket at the Fillmore. Holy good god man. These guys were amazing and did a big Donner Party themed thing and a midnight balloon drop (that's 2 in as many days). They started 2007 with absolutely brilliant cover versions of Celebrate (Kool & The Gang), All Night Long (Lionel Richie) and Careless Whisper (George Michael). They were so much better than I expected though it did get a bit relentless for my tired old ass. We left as they were halfway thru their 4th straight hour. Good for them.
All in all it was a good end to 06 and a good start to 07. Now it's time to cobble together some sort of life before I turn 35 in 5 months.

(Photo courtesy of Dumb Nostalgia)