Broken Boner

YYT it was tonight. The samples on Douban were pretty good, so I had some high expectations. Unfortunately, I got there late and I ended up missing more than I thought. Originally, I had thought that there were 4 bands playing, but I think there were only 3 bands tonight. YYT's site is apparently down right now, so I will get the band names later.

I only heard 2 of the songs for the first band, and it sounded not bad. I didn't hear enough of them to really be able to categorize them, but they were more indie rockish. Of the songs I heard, one of them was not bad.

The second set, started out with some pretty nice guitar, but then the vocals came in--it kinda broke my boner. It was like really typical pop melodies over rock instruments. But then HOLY SHIT. When the guitarist's solo kicked in, it was pretty fucking sweet. He was definitely the best guitarist I've seen thus far. Fortunately, only the first song was very poppy. The other songs were a bit poppy at times, but man. That guy could really play some singing guitar solos. At times, the vocalist also surprised me. With such a poppy first song, I wasn't expecting much, but she came in later with some nice ringo-esque growling. Naise. Their album should be worth checking out.

The final set, which I thought was the second to last set, was being set up. They took forever to get set up. First it was only the drummer, who came in with K custom rides, and an A custom crash. Expensive gears. The lead guitarist came on with a giga delay, tube screamer, rat, and a holy grail reverb, while the singer had a tube screamer, sansamp gt2, and a morley volume pedal. Also seeing him with a Jaguar started to hype me up a bit--especially since the other two bands were pretty good. So, after the gear is set up, I see only the drummer and the bassist on stage. The guitarist comes on and it is still dark. Gradually, I hear some UNSK UNSK and it eventually becomes unbearably loud. I then hear some techno reminiscent of L'arc's Dive to Blue, but way shittier. The singer steps on stage and I hear tons of cheers. At first I thought it would be like a Chinese ver. of L'arc, but as the show progressed, I noticed that the guitarist had yet to play anything more than three notes with delay used as an effect, so it sounded like he was doing a lot more than he actually was. But I persevered because they had to play SOMETHING right? Oh China, how you love to smash my dreams. The solo came and I was bombared with what was quite possibly the most beautiful solo ever--PURE RAKES and not a single note. Yeap, that's right. Not even the infamous J could top this as a solo.

But whatever, this was the first song. The second HAD to be different, right? This time the singer picked up his guitar. Okay maybe this time will be different. More UNSK UNSK. The song starts and they start moving on the stage. At one point, the lead guitarist and singer are facing each other while playing. And in an effort to look like they play and enjoy playing music, the singer begins to air hump the lead guitarist? WTF. I look around. Only now do I notice that there are a shit ton of girls around me taking pictures of what I now realize are pretty boys. Yes, they even brought with them those cameras with huge ass lenses for maximum damage. The solo comes and the lead guitarist finally shows his true skill squeezing out as many notes as he could almost surpassing the J's skill, but not quite. I found out after this song that they were the headliner.

Needless to say, I left broken bonered and raging mad.