Gin Blossoms Live in East Falmouth, MA | July 16, 2011 We rarely review concerts, despite attending many, but we have decided to start after positive feedback on our review of the Counting Crows disaster at the Cape Cod Melody Tent last season. We had paid $70 a pop to see this band destroy their [...]
UPDATE: Hmmm. After just a few hours at number 9, the idol album slipped into number 11 as of March 12th, 3pm! -o- American Idol Season 10 enjoys many firsts this season: new judges, new stage and bigger set, a keener audition process, social networking ‘privileges’ for the contestants, a more interactive website with online [...]
It is not common for us to review concerts. We attend and usually enjoy most concerts because we get, in general, what we want. They can be too short; they can miss your favorite song; they can even just be plain off the mark that night, but rarely is any concert we attend worth mention [...]
If anyone that is reading this article remembers Muhammad Ali, you will certainly remember the rope-a-dope. Ali had used the technique in prior fights, but it became famous in his historic battle to retake the world championship from George Foreman in what was certain to be a humiliation for Ali. Ali sat back for seven [...]
The final three are the correct final three, but honestly, it has been evident for weeks there are two performers at the top of this competition. Each performer got to pick a song. and then had the judges pick a song for them. Fair enough it seems, but it gives the judges the chance to [...]
We are kind of getting bored with the this show. It appears the judges and producers cannot hear themselves. First they want people to sound current, and then then have them do Sinatra and Elvis. Now this week, they have them do movie themes? What could possibly be less relevant for new performers than to [...]
The hypocrisy of how this show is run never fails to surprise us. Week after week the judges have decried that the performers should be more current. In the last four weeks, we have seen themes based on the Beatles, Elvis, Shania Twain and tonight Frank Sinatra. Are these people oblivious to their audience and [...]
The Twain Is Leaving The Station… Corny!! Tonight was kind of a close night with respect to performance scores in our book. There was one absolute standout, but for the most part it was an evening of mediocrity. The problem is all the artists were asked to do a Shania Twain song. This led to [...]
We could have had just two contestants tonight. They would be Crystal Bowersox against the best that each of the other contestants has to offer, and Crystal would just blow them all away as if they were dust. 1. Casey James – Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – Fleetwood Mac – Casey did leave us [...]
And after we were done, washed our hands of American Idol as a viable venue for judging talent, and returned from the john, we sat down and tried to analyze what was clearly one of the worst weeks in Idol history from a performance and judging perspective. One huge problem with this week was the [...]
