Bart McPherson Weblog

Today’s playlist has been posted and the MP3 streams have been updated.
Small tributes to the Rock Hall inductees and St. Patrick’s day were part of the show.

We went to see Alex Chilton at The Beachland Ballroom last weekend. It was a different kind of show. First, the ballroom was probably at about half capacity. I’ve only ever seen it packed when going to shows there. Second, he only did 1 Big Star song (In the Street). Finally, the backing band must have gotten together with Alex that day. He had “play books” for them to know how to play his stuff. It was awkward at times watching them not fit together very smoothly.
Doug Gillard, former guitarist in Guided By Voices opened up the show. He doesn’t really have a stage presence, but he sounded very good and that’s what counts.
Here are some pictures I took at the show.

Doug Gillard
Alex Chilton 1, 2, 3, 4

The playlsit has been posted for today’s show. The MP3 stream should be up late tonight (after class).

I didn’t get a chance to post about yesterday’s show yesterday, because of too many things going on at work and having class last night. The playlist is posted.
It seems like a pretty good show looking back at what was played, but it didn’t seem to be going very well while I was doing it.
Going to see Alex Chilton and Doug Gillard this weekend at The Beachland. It should be a good old-school rocker show. I don’t know how many hipster know who Alex Chilton is. The Doug Gillard album is pretty good. It will probably make it onto the top albums of 2005 at the end of the year.