Last night Wonder Boy and I drove out to Indy to meet up with Dr. Cousin for dinner and a concert. After a brief Mexican dinner in the Broad Ripple area, we walked to the sparkly Vogue theater. All sorts of hipster kids were lined up making me rethink the cool quotient I apply to Indianapolis. For the sold out Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros show I was so impressed by the venue. Even at sold out status, there was plenty of room to walk around.
We watched the stage crew do set up and it went on and on. Turns out that when you have 10+ people on stage at any given time and all are miked, takes a bit of time to get everything set up. After everything was in place, a series of dirty-looking bearded boys and a few very retro-styled girls made there way on stage. They kicked off the show with “40 Day Dream” and it was beautiful.
Dr. Cousin had never heard of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros but he loved the show. It was a glorious journey through hippy rock, alt-country and poppy songs that sounded like they were sung by Neil Diamond, which I mean in a positive way.
The second to last song, admittedly my favorite off of the album, was “Home” and they busted it out. He floors were shaking. The crowd and band had a good call and response going on.
I’m smitten, the proud owner of an Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert poster and an evangelizer of their music.
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