Big Cooter:
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones just totally rocked out. They were
the last band on the second stage and timed things well enough to be
playing as the sun was finally starting to dissipate for the day.
They took a comparatively smaller crowd and rocked them hard to the
core. Everyone on the side stage was moving and dancing to the beat
- The young, the old, the ugly, the pretty, the thin, and the fat
(as long as they stayed out of the crowd surfing scene). Everyone,
including myself was in tune to the band's every whim. Each of them
truly outperformed their main stage counter parts, which is why I
was not surprised to see the teenage crowd patrons (from around our
seats) out there crowd surfing and screaming and yelling at the top
of their well pre-adolescent lungs, thank god for earplugs.
The Dude on the Right:
So, Big Cooter sends me his review of the bands and when I get
to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones I say to myself, "Self, this
review sounds familiar." Of course it did, it was the same as
his review of Goldfinger except Goldfinger was replaced by The
Mighty Mighty Bosstones and he deleted the phrase "second
to." I figured Big Cooter was just being lazy, or maybe just
slightly inebriated to keep writing, but then I realized why he
didn't have much to say about the band - he was having to much
fun in the mosh pit, much like he was during Goldfinger. Driving
home from the show, Big Cooter and The Dude on the Left regaled
their escapades in the mosh pit, how body surfers were above them,
how a dude asked Big Cooter if he wanted to be lifted up to surf to
which Big Cooter said "Does it look like I could body
surf?" for fear of plummeting to the Earth, and was just having
a grand old time to a great band with the rest of the crowd. So it's
pretty plain to see that The Mighty Mighty Bosstones did their job
and truly entertained me, even out of the mosh pit, for their set.
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The last time The Bosstones were at Jamboree they opened the main
stage. They rocked there, even to the filtering crowd, and probably
did one of the best jobs for a band without an audience. This time
they had the audience, were a perfect closer for the second stage,
but probably could have turned the main stage area into a total
frenzy if they had been able to be one of the main stage closers.
They are so much damn fun.
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