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Concert Report: El Vez

This may actually have made up for the previous two failed concert attempts. I actually found 5 other people that wanted to go, which was an impressive start to the adventure. It was raining fairly hard today (I guess you could think of it as winter) but we made it up to the city, met up for dinner at Ti Couz, and I got to sample 4 different dessert crepes. Mmmmmm. So tasty. Then it was off to the show. The opening band was called The Dragons, and they were ok, playing pretty straightforward punk, although their songwriting seemed to consist almost entirely of repeating a single line like "I want to fuck everyone" over and over. Oh well. It was encouragement to start my own band. The bass player sang a cover song, which was probably their best song of the night.

But then it was time for El Vez! He put on an incredible show. Mixing up Elvis songs, christmas songs, classic rock songs, pop songs, changing lyrics, changing styles, changing costumes - it was great. The backup band was pretty good, he had two backup singers that had pretty good choreography compared to what I would have expected - it was good stuff. Good crowd interaction, good transitions between songs (and I should also give credit to the Dragons, who typically slid from one song to the next without pause), and really getting the whole crowd into it. Yeah. Lots of fun. I'd love to see a non-christmas themed show, since christmas is not my favorite time of the year, but if I can enjoy his christmas show he must be quite the performer. Everyone I went with enjoyed it, too, which is a pretty good sign.