Great set. But disappointed at how tense this performance was.

Bump.

" interlude thing with frontwards viibe" is heckler spray lol

Lol selfishly playing around during a spiral song, classic

critica social fuderosa bro

this is 100% true

Kennel District is the first Pavement song I heard that made me really want to invest time and listen to more of their music, and now I'm a huge fan.

cooled by the sound is the most underrated imo

Raft is

They're the most underrated band ever too!

It really isn't. As a Pavement fan from 1993, I was bummed.

@@kentuckychromedesign aS a PaVeMenT FaN FroM 1993 i WaS BuMmEd

It's called "Slow-Mo".

cmacdhon no, its called Perfect Depth, my bandingo.

Crap. You're right. I pasted the first word of the song, instead of the title. Sorry about that.

Kennel District

***** It sure is awesome.

Welcome to Pavement

It was awful until the end. Techs should’ve been sent back for unpaid training after that. So bad.

As a seasoned guitar player and songwriter/producer, here is my assessment: I think he is a great artist, and a very good guitarist who has a knack for weaving his vocal patterns into the fabric of his playing style. Specifically related to his guitar playing: He's very creative, and it would be technically difficult to perfectly recreate his sounds because the shapes that he forms are unique to him and his own biorhythms. Personally, I think his talent surpasses many artists who are "clean and proficient" because he has the ability to keep the rhythm without being in perfect timing, a true sign of an artist. No matter how sloppy, he always gets to the pivot notes at exactly the right time, and with a cool swagger. He also does a great job of using his equipment, which is a skillset that often goes unnoticed. It takes a lot of insight and feel to respond at the right time when using so many different effects. ALL HAIL SIR STEPHEN!

He's one of the greatest all-around guitar players ever. His parts are pretty hard and he sings over them.

He can play the songs he writes. That's as good as he needs to be.

+whippp He's unique and quite talented in my opinion. He uses a few alternate tunings so a lot of what he's doing sounds more complex than it actually is to play (if you're in those tunings), but he pulls some complex/obscure chords out and plays leads in all of them so he must have a pretty good understanding of fretboard notes/theory. I've always wondered if he was a seat-of-pants type of guy or if he'd studied theory a lot as a kid, he kind of mixes classic '70s rock/pop vibes with a Sonic Youth aesthetic in many ways which is weird. And as slimjimi pointed out, the fact that he sings songs over these parts demonstrates talent as well. The guitar parts are oddly timed or clustered or have melody lines stringing chord changes together, and he's holding down a vocal meter/melody on top which is harder than it looks.

He's good enough to play the songs he writes. That's as good as he needs to be.

October 1st 2010 I think

I think it was monitors but certainly didn't necessitate his baby-ass behavior

Yeah, Pave is my fav band of all time but never got to see them. Would have loved to have been there. I heard there was a little acrimony in the band by the end of that reunion tour, but they sound great here.

As someone who was there, the crowd was going pretty much apeshit - If "Great" performance meant "Scott threw a hissy fit every 30 seconds on stage", and "The band could not hear themselves through the monitors", then you're spot on.

Michael Fennelly How did he throw a hissy fit?

Flew from Seattle for this show and was so bummed out on everything. Scott was being such a baby about everything. Granted, plotting a festival in Vegas is a weird thing on it's own but it was such an uncomfortable thing, mostly on Scott's part. I love Pavement and Malkmus and all of the Spiral jams but i will literally never go see Spiral play based off of his bratty shit from this show.

In your opinion. Pavement in the 90's put on almost identical shows (the ones I saw). Loved them then, loved the comeback shows because I could see Pavement on stage. They were what they were and nothing else ever like them. People now look back and think they had any different performances is lost on me. haha. Spiral looked pissed and unhappy/left out in 94... what's new? Bob N couldn't play then or now... anything changed? West has always just been West. SM just shows up and gives out what he wants no different 2009 then 1998. Mark is a Bass Player. They were having mud thrown at them 20 yrs ago so maybe you just don't like Pavement? I have this playing in background and sounds like Pavement.

david murray Er, yes, "in my opinion" obviously. ;) Pavement were the one band I thought had sufficient integrity to sidestep the '00s reunion bandwagon. Oh well.

R. ROOKSBY You hipsters are the worst.

R. ROOKSBY haha at least you kept yours by criticizing what others do with their lives. :)

yeah...they're lame for playing Matador's birthday party. Guided By Voices were lame too for doing it. Oops....I meant they both kicked ass. See you all at Failure next week at the El Rey!

Kenedamick they're terrible live that's for sure

This was on the sound crew and Spiral. I think SM was fed up w/spiral and got blazed beforehand. It definitely kicks in after the show starts.