Caught in the flurry of the excitement of last minute announcements, the necessity of hasty ticket purchases, and the prospect of leaving work early, I rashly decided to blow off Apples In Stereo, Page France, Headlights and Casper and the Cookies to check out Beck’s last minute announced show at the Echo. Thank God I didn’t sell the tickets. I left the Echo 40 minutes into Beck’s set, was at Spaceland 5 minutes later and never felt a pang of regret. Here’s why:

Becho Last Minute Show (“BLM”): CON – Guy on stage whose sole purpose was to do poor impersonations of rejects from the Wade Robson Project. Only one man can do that and get away with it. His names is Gabe. He plays cowbell.

Spaceland Scheduled (“SS”): PRO – Casper and the Cookies’ guitarist who, in the throes of a final breakdown, jumped into the then 10 person crowd and made an audience member play his guitar while his sexier than Kim Deal bassist played the final notes of the set on her back.
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