"...And I'd been shifting gears all along my life
But I'm still the same underneath
This you surely knew..."
—"Life is a Pigstye" Morrisey
Moz at the Fillmore last night was a nice walk down memory lane. He sounded great but the backup band was a little flat for the first songs. looks like they were recruited from the Manchester Boys School. The bass player looked like a young Paul Simonon when they were allowed to let loose a bit and play. Perhaps it was the nostalgia overload, but it reminded me of highshool band when the first encore of "Please, please, please..." hit the end and the fellow playing the trumpet was lax and didn't add any life to the template instrumental ending of the song. Very straight.
There were some nice jam portions of the show where Moz was laying on the stage and letting the band just rip it up. "How Soon Is Now" ripped in after a slow piano ending of "auld lang sine" and the reason why there was a HUGE and i mean HUGE gong set up behind the drummer became very evident. Constantine was screaming in my ear and ripping at my western duds as the drummer beat the crap out of it. That was truly the highlite tune of the evening even though it's nothing short of a car commercial these days.
Truly eerie was the fact that i put my iPod on Artist shuffle for the first time in months yesterday and the first song it unearths is a Johnny Marr and the Healers tune, "Down On The Corner". How freakin' weird is that. It was in the air.
Labels: Colorado, Denver Art, MOZ at the Fillmore