it was alright

WILL BERMAN was working the counter selling records during the performance.

i thought it was great except for the last tune..didn't really dig it. the band's tight though..

I thought the show was great. I debated seeing Dylan instead but went ahead with living in the now rather than the past. The band was tight, the songs translated live great, and I'm interested to see how they work on the much larger Terminal 5 in November.

I have built a treehouse

I really wish lazy writers would stop using the adjective "literate" to describe music.

show last night was pretty much what i expected. songs i like from the album (don't wanna die, milk thistle, souled out, gone from nyc, sausilito) were incredible and the covers were good, but the album's lesser material, in my eyes, left me very bored in sections. seems like conor sometimes gets too caught up in poetic metaphors and forgets about just telling a story. still the band is incredibly tight and the sound in bowery was incredible. two incredible electric guitar players in the band, along with jason boesel on drums and nate walcott on keys from bright eyes proper.

I don't know Citrus City, Let them in, sundown, breezy or smoke signals. Are they all covers? By who?

it was Century City, not Citrus right?

david dondero is better than bright eyes

what's the song that starts "a lot happens after everyone goes to sleep.."

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i liked that one!

i think they covered bill withers, the bass player sang. "everybody's talkin"

"I don't know Citrus City, Let them in, sundown, breezy or smoke signals. Are they all covers? By who?"

Let Them In, Breezy, and Smoke Signals are all songs from Conor and Sundown is from Nik Freitas.

Last nights show was great. Milk thistle was his best track in my opinion. The audience was mesmerized and I promise you could hear a pin drop. Only thing is, some of his fans are borderline ridiculous. The people we stood next to flipped out when my friend and I were talking for a minute. Get a life weirdos, youre at bowery ballroom. People talk, sing and even get drunk. Thats life. Stay home and watch you tube cuts in silence and in the dark. Hahaha..

i don't nkow about the last comment. i stood behind someone who was on his iphone all concert typing away at email or something it was very distracting. i wish i had said something to stop him. but i guess that would have made me one of these weirdos. the iphone guy had a popped collar too. yikes. maybe the ppl who aren't there to listen and enjoy should stay home, so that they don't distract those who are there to listen.

conor is drinking a lot again. he was so ostentatious about the alcohol too. like it made him cool to take pauses from lyrics to suck out of a miller lite can

god damn miller lite is awful

Conor is drinking a lot again? How the fuck can you possibly glean that from that show? I thought he looked healthier and more alert than I'd seen in years, and I only ever saw him sipping beer from a can or two during the show. Keep trying to find controversy where there is none, if only to make your life seem more exciting, or to feel like you have something to say, no matter how inane.

He never stopped a song and drank beer. Shut up.

cassadaga was way disappointing and everything i've heard from this album has made me cringe.

conor oberst without mike mogis is dogshit

conor oberst is more like that albino character in the movie "powder" and he could never be the next dylan. please. he's rootsy emo for the high school kids

"i stood behind someone who was on his iphone all concert typing away at email or something it was very distracting. "

I do not understand why people choose to remain in place to be distracted by such things. Is it just so you can complain about it later? Why not just move? I've never been to Bowery Ballroom, even at it's most packed, where there's not a little room to move to a different spot.

NY crowds have this super strange uptight sense of entitlement.

I wasn't at the show (most unfortunately - but no way would I ever support scalpers, which how I bet most got their tickets), but it's hardly a "super strange uptight sense of entitlement" to go to a show and expect to be able to watch the show without someone talking or texting or holding their phone up the entire show (thus blocking viewing for others), a show which you have paid to see. It's like going to a movie and talking or whatever the whole time. Learn how to act. Have some manners.

As for the person who claims it's so easy to move to another spot: really? So, someone standing next to a jerk should have to a) give up their spot and b) turn into a jerk themselves as they try to bulldoze themselves through a packed crowd to try to get away from the original jerk?

It's really very basic - act like you have some manners and stop being so GD self-involved and then EVERYONE can enjoy the show.

i was emailing him on my iphone the entire time talking about how fucked up we were gonna get on that 30 pack of miller lite in my trunk.

we got wicked dosed on that and flintstones vitamins and went down to soho and bought some vintage clothes and talked about the omaha scene for hours.

it was divine.

Oh Yeah! The Dude has been drinking like a fish again...

central city

oh god his fucking fans drove me insane. the girl in front of me actually wrote down her email address and gave it to the piano player.i understand if people want to drink and talk, but can't that be done in the back, like it usually is? i was in the fourth row and couldn't hear over some of the idiot high schoolers talking about whether or not conor oberst had looked at them.

I loved him in "Wedding Crashers."