Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

-=AlexXx=-

Tuesday, Culture Room, Ft Lauderdale.
Whos Coming with me. <3

GOLD!en · Backside 180 Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 505 City: Edwards

Wishing I lived in Florida right about now. He didn't come through my town, and I missed Girl Talk too... good thing I have an amazing girlfriend who bought tickets to Girl Talk in Des Moines in January!!!

nick · Posted: Nov 18, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:

I'm getting my ticket right now... Cool

kornhouse · Posted: Nov 18, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:

my friend said all the songs were new at the orlando stop.

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 18, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

littleblightie · Pop Shuvit Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 133

Saw Conor Oberst when he was in Aus... Amazing show.

*Nate · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 1230 City: Nokomis

I wish I could go....Conor Oberst is simply amazing.

nick · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:

All new stuff, pretty good...

I definitely have a different image of Conor Oberst after the show last night.

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject:

nick, what changed for you?
to me he seemed much more upbeat then what has been led on, but also this new cd is much more upbeat. i also think he is a great performer

nick · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

His music always felt very personal, but until this show last night... I don't know. I never had a feeling that he resented playing for crowds, but now I can't shake it. He performed amazing and he's obviously very passionate about making music, but I also know that some consider art to be private (in whatever form). Listening to some of the Bright Eyes albums, it made more sense that he has mixed feelings about having to deal with crowds, most of who can't and won't understand any of it and just go because it's the cool thing to do. That would kill me. The whole concept of Valle Mistico and just going away from everything with a few friends to create music in a limitless environment is awesome, I would love to adapt it to wakeskating, imagine just 5 of the world's most creative wakeskaters going to tropical country and building a watery berrics for a few months :drool: ) At some point he had to decide that he wants to share his creation with the world on some level and since you can't handpick your audience, the newly mainstream artist is going to come face to face with at least a little bit of disappointment/regret when his image becomes larger than himself...

It could all just be my perception based on what I saw and the assumptions I've made about Conor Oberst as a person from listening to every word he's ever sung.

Either way, I love and respect what he's done, what he does, and what he's doing Smash

I just hope he's happy

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject:

nick, did you get that from seeing the crowd or from him?
i didnt see that at all when i saw him. he seemed to be having a great time and he was talking with the crowd between some songs, and he seemed genuinely happy. maybe it was different because he was playing in San Francisco

nick · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

wakemitch, Well I was in one of the fakest places in the world, a rich area of southeast FLA, so that could've been it.

It could have been any number of things really. It was just the realization of the possibility that hit me last night...

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 19, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

nick, i think it must have been a location thing.

but i also never thought about that. he pours his soul into his music and then he is surrounded by an audience that doesnt really care about what it means, but that its the cool thing to do. but im sure he will keep coming to those places because there will always be the few that get it.

soy escuala · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 2248

I'm drunk camping out by the doors right now next to his tour bus. I'm 3rd in line on my blackberry. Can't wait to get in this beach. Only 2 more hours

word · Posted: Nov 20, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

soy escuala, come pick me up

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Nov 20, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

soy escuala, enjoy man, its a GREAT show.