The Rock Report: The Cult

I went and saw the cult on friday night and i have been trying to decide what i thought of the show ever since. i mean, i love The Cult…I really do and the show was good…I mean, Janus always sounds good and Ian still sounds like Ian and they are The Cult and they played almost all of the songs I wanted to hear….i dunno, to write this I drank 5 Beam and Gingers in hopes that I could find the clarity to voice my thoughts of the show….i do not wanna be a critic…i mean, those who can — do; and those who can not — judge those who do and I’d feel like an asshole sitting here writing that the show was bad…from my living room in nowhere ass Saint Petersburg…especially, when…in reality…the show did not suck….it was just unfulfilling ….I mean, it was the cult and they sounded like the cult….but…and i will hate myself for typing this when i am done but…it felt insincere…you could not see any passion in them…and that was what troubled me from the show until now…and then, on the way home from work I may have found the source of my disappointment…..too damn many people…ain’t that a bitch…Maybe…just maybe I go to too many shows of bands I really and truly love and I watch them with 50 to 250 other people…and while it is common consensus that bands play harder to bigger crowds it could be that they (bands) in all honestly play harder to smaller crowds…or maybe they just feel more connected or…fuck, i dunno…i am one of those who can not, who is trying to prop up those who can, and I’m sitting here drunk, trying to discuss my disappointment with a show, and yet I do not really know why I was bummed out…Is it that bands playing to big crowds feel it is easier to disconnect and just go through the motions, or is it that people in the midst of the big crowd will not feel a connection with the band? people (like myself) who attend too many small shows a year for a lesser liver to take will always feel let down by big shows because of the disconnect? I do not know and am far to tipsy to care since…and i know this is true…The Cult ain’t thinking about St. Pete no more..so there we are…The Cult sounded like The Cult and they played the tracks I wanted to hear (except one) but in the end I just felt unsatisfied for a reason I can not put a finger on….and even after liberal doses of the magic potion that is Jim Beam I do not know…but i do know this…as i type this the dvd Two Cow Garage gave me is playing on my tv and I feel more connected to a dvd recorded years ago than i did to that show.

The End.

This article could have really been a moment if i was not 3/4 cocked….i bet Scott @ Stereogum never has this problem…heh heh…