INCUBUS - The Greek Theater Los Angeles, Ca. 7-11-07

It was the day of the show and I wanted to go really bad, it was on my mind all day at work.

I was listening to LIGHT GRENEADES since its release in November 2006.

I had gone to see Incubus at the Los Angeles Fourm previously A Crow Left Of The Murder Tour.

I did'nt want to miss them in such and intimate venue.
I looked on Ebay and found some pit tickets for a very reasonable price somewhere around $200 for the pair so I bought them. I printed them out and we were on our way to see what was one of the greatest shows I have ever attended.

As you can see I was lucky enough to get the set-list at the end of the show.

If your an Incubus fan you can see this was an excellent set.

Amazing in fact.

This was going to be something completely different from all the other shows I had been to. Being that close and acutally watching the show. I've been to other shows in the pit and you you really cant watch with all the energy around you. But I knew there wouldnt be any moshing in fact no one ever even got close to me all night it was awesome.

We got there in plenty of time to secure a spot up against the railing on the side of the bass player Ben Kenney. I would have much rather been in front of the guitar player Mike Einzinger. The more I listen to Incubus I realize how talented he is. The way he use effects to create sounds from his guitar and plain old talent.

Brandon Boyd is in my opinion the best singer in rock music today. Pitch, tone and vocal style can not be matched by any other since Robert Plant.

All I know is that standing there so close made me feel like no other show except John Frusciante @ The Roxy but that is another story soon to come.

The sound was amazing the performance was great and the setlist near perfect since im not a big fan of there early stuff.

Kiss To Send Us Off

Love Hurts

Dig - Official Video

Bradley Nowell - Hit Me With Music

Brad, One of the great guitar players/singers of the 20th centery. We lost this one way to early. For those of you who have not heard Brad's solo and acoustic stuff I will post some of it here.

Buy some cds if you can.

I own all that I can find and never stop looking for unreleased and rare music from this artist.

Bradley Nowell is probably the only person besides Bob Marley that can perform a Marley Song and make you feel good about it.

He was really touched by music and it shows in his soulful playing smooth voice and guitar playing. Some might even want to hurt me after what Im about to say but I like Brad's acoustic version of "Zimbabwe" better than Bob's and thats only my preference(MP3 Play Count is 50 times). I'm not saying it's better. What is better? Better is subjective to the listener. Could Brad write a song that good? yes, but he didnt write that one.

Brad is the reason I got into Bob Marley. I was listening to alot of Sublime when i discovered that they covered Bob Marley songs and an even better discovery was Brad's acoustic versions of a few Marley songs. That peaked my interest. He must have listened to Marley quite alot because his covers are amazing.

I let my friend Greg (I would say he's the Marley expert) hear Brad from the Firecracker Lounge and he thought "most people in the place were not listening and just talking, only Brad cared and he was singing with a lot of sincerity, he felt the music".

Sublime covered the following Bob Marley songs.

One Cup Of Coffee/Judge Not, Trenchtown Rock, I Shot The Sheriff

Bradley played these songs. Almost as if he was paying respect to the original artist for the love of the music that influenced him.

I think thats why his acoustic covers (studio and live) of Bob Marley Songs were so amazing the passion and the love of music.

Wanting to play music and sing regardless of how it sounds. Sometimes Brad was drunk when he was performing and his playing/singing wasnt always on key but it was passionate.

Im writing about Brad because I feel the muisc that he is performing I have just listened to Zimbabwe & Marley Medley over and over for the last hour. So I will share these heart-felt recordings with anyone who might stumble upon them.

DOWNLOADS:

Bradley Nowell - Firecracker Lounge - Zimbabwe - Marley Medley (Guava Jelly, This Train and Cornerstone) also Sublime Covering I Shot The Sheriff from a live performance on a boat.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=59f6cf975042c442d2db6fb9a8902bda

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