the black keys

is it sad that the black keys song i’m most into is the tobacco remix of “i got mine”? i don’t think so as it is just as slimy as the original, with attitude dripping down its sides.  it does add, however, that psychedelic and noise mixture that i love from tobacco.  and it has lost any resemblance to the sound of strings being plucked.   

i caught the black keys last night at the consol center.  it is never quite as good to see a band in a huge venue but i liked it. my favorite two songs were “sinister kid” and “everlastinglight”.  “sinister kid” had so much swagger.  the rhythm was sharp but the guitar was warbly and that made for an awesome contrast.  the bass didn’t come through like in the album version so it sounded a lot more like they played it as a twosome (even though a backing band was there).  two huge disco balls and hundreds of beams of light danced around for the falsetto-only “everlasting light”.  it was like prom at the school for the ordinary-challenged.