Timeshifting SNL
Raj emailed me yesterday "Arcade Fire's going to be on SNL". I emailed back that I'd Tivo it. He emailed back "or watch it on YouTube on sunday morning". So that's what I did.
They did Intervention for their first number and ended that with some guitar string ripping and guitar smashing. Rainn Wilson (aka Dwight from The Office) introduced.
They came back and they played Keep The Car Running which I liked better.
Philip emailed me this morning about the Arcade Fire show. I told him I'd watched it. He emailed back his favorite SNL performance ever. Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger doing Don't Look Back. It's awesome, so here that is too. Talk about time shifting.
Awesome Peter Tosh clip. My favorite SNL music clips of all time are Radiohead doing "National Anthem" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7it1uF4dDk and the B-52's in 1979? doing "Rock Lobster", but that clip isn't on YouTube anymore
Posted by: Brian | February 25, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Great clips.
Notice that the Tosh piece is a lot louder, better sound; maybe the source was from the original tapes?
Also, you can play multiple YouTube clips at once. A cacaphony of rock and roll.
Finally, you have a scripting error on this page around "blogbeat"
Posted by: Charlie Crystle | February 25, 2007 at 01:24 PM
That guitar smashing looked so scripted/forced... Great performance, other than that.
When you break stuff on stage, there is a tendancy to look at that act in the light of the long history of people who have broke stuff on stage before you. It's like the classic debate of whether or not Hendrix's ritualistic guitar burning sacrafices were derivative of The Who's smash-and-bash approach, or not.
Posted by: Andrew | February 25, 2007 at 01:53 PM
I thought they killed it. Just got tickets on Friday to see them when they come through Atlanta - we're going to be in the orchestra pit on the third row. So psyched.
Posted by: Kyle S | February 25, 2007 at 05:45 PM
I love Arcade Fire, but I thought their first song on SNL was awkward. The back-up singers weren't in key and the smashing of the acoustic guitar wasn't edgy, it made him look dorky. That and the haircut.
My favorite SNL musical guest was The Clash doing Straight to Hell. So awesome I may need to go find it on YouTube now....
Posted by: Gina | February 26, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Loved the Keep the Car Running clip.
I'm sure you have this but in case you don't, here's the Judson Memorial show you missed, in its entirety.
http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2007/02/18/arcade-fire-live-in-new-york/
Posted by: SB Dave | February 26, 2007 at 02:55 PM
of course, both arcade fire videos have been pulled from youtube and these are now dead links. that doesn't happen w/ tivo.
(i dug the performance on snl, btw, but win's haircut did freak me out a little...)
Posted by: Greg | February 26, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Ha. The clips are down, so much for your time shifting.
"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal"
Posted by: Michael Hoffman | February 26, 2007 at 11:22 PM
... And the videos are no longer available, that is the downside of the Google acquisition of YouTube and the larger video streaming sites. Things stay cool when they're underground. When they go mainstream, they start to suck!
Why would anybody smash a perfectly good guitar? Donate it to a poor child and inspire them to play; I've never understood it. How unoriginal!
Posted by: Dan Buell | February 28, 2007 at 02:44 AM