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Yes, that's Oolong. :)
Went to see Collective Soul at a cool venue right on the water here in San Diego (Humphreys By the Bay if you know the town). I've always liked CS so we decided to check them out.
First of all it was a really good show, guitar wise there was a plethora of guitars used, the lead guitarist mainly used a black Les Paul tuned to drop D and a gold top LP with a funky looking trem on it for other stuff. The rhythm guitarist had a LP the whole time, couldn't hear much of him really and Ed Roland the lead singer and played guitar about half the time, 6 and 12 string acoustics and an electric I didn't recognize. Amps used were Goodsell (apparently made in Atlanta where they're from) and Mahalo.
Ed Roland is a pretty animated front man and sounded good but... and this is where it gets weird... apparently the crowd wasn't reacting the way he wanted them to. It was the usual "sing along with this part" audience participation kind of thing and apparently it wasn't up to his standard. You could hear him say "You guys suck" over the mic. It wasn't said directly into the mic but it picked it up and my wife and I both looked at each other like "Really? WTF?!"
I've never seen something like that before, you'll get the usual "Come on let's hear it! Oh you can do better than that!" type of thing but dissing the audience like that, wow...
Anyway again the show was good other than that moment, they did their hits and did some new stuff that hasn't been released yet that I really liked.
I've read that ER is pretty full of himself and now I find that very easy to believe.
First of all it was a really good show, guitar wise there was a plethora of guitars used, the lead guitarist mainly used a black Les Paul tuned to drop D and a gold top LP with a funky looking trem on it for other stuff. The rhythm guitarist had a LP the whole time, couldn't hear much of him really and Ed Roland the lead singer and played guitar about half the time, 6 and 12 string acoustics and an electric I didn't recognize. Amps used were Goodsell (apparently made in Atlanta where they're from) and Mahalo.
Ed Roland is a pretty animated front man and sounded good but... and this is where it gets weird... apparently the crowd wasn't reacting the way he wanted them to. It was the usual "sing along with this part" audience participation kind of thing and apparently it wasn't up to his standard. You could hear him say "You guys suck" over the mic. It wasn't said directly into the mic but it picked it up and my wife and I both looked at each other like "Really? WTF?!"
I've never seen something like that before, you'll get the usual "Come on let's hear it! Oh you can do better than that!" type of thing but dissing the audience like that, wow...
Anyway again the show was good other than that moment, they did their hits and did some new stuff that hasn't been released yet that I really liked.
I've read that ER is pretty full of himself and now I find that very easy to believe.
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