After some very exhausting (and awesome) skiing at Keystone and Beaver Creek, our posse forced ourselves to go see Modest Mouse in Boulder. We dined at a most excellent pizza joint between the mountains and Denver off I-70, Beau Jo's, followed by a quick change in Denver and then on to the show. Doors were at 8 with opening act Mimicking Birds, so we thought arriving at 9 or so would be perfect. Wrong ... the openers hadn't even played yet, so we had about 2 hours of standing around before the Mouse. And again ... we were super friggin' tired.The biggest nuisance in all this was that MM took at least 45 minutes to take the stage after the openers. People even started booing at one point. They played a cool set, though, with a ton of old songs. They were pretty sloppy, though, and the sound (an old field house that held about 4,000) was pretty awful, too. A lot of long, going-nowhere-fast outros to songs, too ... like "Dramamine" could've been about 4 minutes shorter and about 10x better. It was kind of a 180 from the nuance of the Andrew Bird show 2 days earlier. You gotta love the setlist, though ...
Start 10:15
Paper Thin Walls
Never Ending Math Equation (!)
The View
Dramamine (!!)
The Good Time Are Killing Me
Doin' the Cockroach (!!!)
Fire It Up
We've Got Everything
Satin in a Coffin (during which he made a hippie from the crowd jog in place ... funny)
Float On
Trucker's Atlas (!!!!)
Ohio
Broke (!!!!! - totally flubbed the lyrics, though)
Trailer Trash (!!!!!!)
Education
Off 11:45
We did not stay for the encore ... good times killing us, I suppose ... but, according to the good ol' web, they played:
Satellite Skin
Black Cadillacs
This Devil's Workday
Custom Concern
At least I didn't miss "Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset" or the return of "3rd Planet" ...
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