What are Smog and Alejandro Escovedo like live?

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should i see these guys live, anyone?

― Peter Parker (Peter Parker), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Escovedo's great with his big orchestra. I really am not big on his maudlin stuff, but his rockers are terrific, esp. live.

Smog is smog.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Smog shows are like Cat Power shows if she didn't flake out and wasn't a hot chick

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Smog's current band is very good, fairly tight--and he enunciates! Sometimes his encores are a bit dodgy.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

All Cat Power seems to do at recent shows is flake out, so that's not very descriptive really.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

no but very quiet, not very dynamic. I like him alot but I've known people who've complained he doesn't 'put on a show' - what they were expecting I do not know.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Also a know some women who have been flattered by the attentions of Bill Callahan so perhaps he is closer to being Cat Power's analogue than you expect.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Smog puts on a good show, or at least he did last time he came through town. His voice carries very well live.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(Smog) is a variable. Playing solo at All Tomorrows Parties last year he made me want to shoot myself (which, no doubt, was the idea). But I've seen him before with a band and he's been absolutely magnetic.

― Jason J, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE LIVE PERFORMANCE BOOTLEG FROM SMOG AT THE ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES CURATED BY SONIC YOUTH ?

― Abraham Araujo, Sunday, 20 April 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen Smog many times; the only time he's been Cat Power-esque was a show where he played solo and played all his songs very slowly and without much rhythm or energy. Otherwise, he's generally been great. The Rain On Lens songs were much better live than they were on the record specifically because they had a greater dynamic range. He doesn't put on a show in the sense that he doesn't have any between-song patter (although I did see a show where he told a drawn-out joke!).

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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