Here's a link to my LJ, in which I reviewed the TMBG show I had the fortune to attend to the best of my ability. You may want to skip through all my rambling about my day leading up to that. I tried to make it clear where that ended and the review began: http://www.livejournal.com/users/czgoldedi...3.html#comments

It was awesome.

Chinny! i'm glad you had such a good time. it's a life changing experience, init?

what did you use those screen captures for?

Yes, most definitely! ^_^

I used 'em as references for the t-shirt I drew up, and then wore to the concert. I'll post it on that thread in a second - first I've got to scan it in; which may take a few minutes, as shirts a bigger than the scanner bed and it takes about 6 scans to get an entire shirt in, usually. I'm actually rather pleased with the shirt; so thanks again for getting me those screen captures, I wouldn't have been able to draw good profile-shots of their faces without them.

it was my pleasure. anything to help out such a great artist.

Chinny, you lucky skunk! I'm glad you enjoyed the show and got to meet Flansy. That was a pretty good write-up, too.

I really, really hope they play "Fingertips" at the Omaha show...

after your show, i'm gonna call you a lucky skunk.

i don't care what they play. i trust their judgement. i saw em do Fingertips in St Louis though. i think it was the one that surprised me the most at that show. they did it great.

OK!

Yeah, there's a lot songs I'd like to see them do, but I'm not going to be too bothered if they don't do any of my favorites. I figure anything they play is gonna totally rock.

Yeh, you'll love it no-matter what they play, GR. I didn't care what they played when I was there.. just they fact that /They/ were there, in front of me, playing anything at all was the most wonderful thing ever.

yeah, it'll blow your mind.

i was lucky. my first show was on the Severe Tire Damage tour, so they did all the ones on there, & my 2nd was on their 20th Anniversary Tour, so they were both kinda 'greatest hits' type shows to begin with.

i'd like to see em do Don't Let's Start, Spirailing Shape, I Should Be Allowed To Think, or The End Of The Tour the most. i've enver seen em do any of those yet. (DLS being my #1 pick)

Here's my wish list: Hide Away Folk Family, See the Constellation, The Guitar, Fingertips, New York City, Another First Kiss, Working Undercover for the Man, and at least one good song for "Spin-the-Dial". But like I say, even if I don't hear a single one of them, I would just be happy to be in the warm glow of the Johns' majestic presence.

there ya go.

Ooo; they played The End of the Tour when I saw 'em. =D *Thinks* I dunno if I left that off my wannabe setlist or not, though. *Is so terrible at remembering things* Ah well. x3

I wanna see them do See the Constellation too, gr, but I've heard they never do that live for some reason. I wonder why that is.

i don't know.

I think they've done a few special Apollo 18 shows, but outside of those, I don't know of them ever doing the song live, either. I don't know why it's not more of a staple in their live shows -- it's such a great, rockin' song, but maybe it's kind of a personal song for Flansy and he feels self-conscious about performing it or something...

Speaking of which, I found this preview of Sunday's Omaha show in today's World-Herald:

New Record, Same Obsessions for Giants

by Niz Proskoch
World-Herald staff writer

Songwriters John Linnell and John Flansburgh -- the quirky Brooklyn duo better known as They Might Be Giants -- have their first new full-length rock album in three years.

The band's most recent recording was a 2002 children's album called "No!"

A U.S. tour to promote their 10th full-length studio recording -- "The Spine," which hits stores July 13 -- bring the duo to Omaha for a concert Sunday at Sokol Auditorium.

"It's very much us," Flansburgh said of the coming disc. "It's hard to say what's different about it. I feel like a lot of our focus on the record is with the same obsessions we've always had.

"People have told us that it sounds more like our live show than our other albums. It's a little rowdier."

Since forming in 1985, They Might Be Giants has charmed music fans with its staccato pop-rock songs laced with strange and silly lyrics.

Vocalist Flansburgh, 44, plays guitar. Vocalist Linnell, 45, plays accordion, keyboards and woodwinds.

The band's 1990 major-label debut, "Flood," went gold and spawned the hits "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)."

They Might Be Giants' music has graced the soundtracks for "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," which featured the song "Dr. Evil," and the Fox TV show "Malcolm in the Middle," which featured the group's Grammy-winning song, "Boss of Me."

Flansburgh estimates that the band has played more than 1,500 gigs.

"I love performing live," he said. "I feel startlingly at home on stage."

Yeh, Flans sure did seem at home on the stage. That's awesome, GR. Yay for following those talented boys around this summer; both in writing/reading about the shows and getting to actually see a few. ^^