By Josh Pillow
I have seen Sleater-Kinney at least 15 times now and this will go down as one of the most memorable. I was about 4 people back and had a wonderful view of the entire band (being taller than anyone in the whole place helped that). This was the first time I really got to watch Carrie and what she does. She is by far the most emotional and energetic about what she is doing onstage. Her famous rock star poses will never grow tiresome. The beautiful thing about seeing SK live is that they are all three so happy to be playing with one another. Watching them exchange glances with each other and smile and laugh makes you feel lucky to be there. That being said the crowd seemed pretty dead last night, in comparison to the two nights before in Los Angeles. And I am really growing tired of people that are too cool for school being up front. If you don’t want to support the band by clapping and dancing however you see fit, go to the back and have a smoke or something. Don’t take up valuable space. They played all of the new songs they have been playing on the tour with the exception being Prisstina was not played. They played a few songs from the Hot Rock including “Get Up”. It was a show of mostly new songs with some older ones here and there. Pretty much like the rest of the tour. We weren’t treated to any cover songs last night though. Still a wonderful experience from the best band in the world. I am only sad that today is my last day, in Pomona, of the four days in a row trip I have going to see them.
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