BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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May 25, 2006

Beck with strings

Last night's Beck concert was like a blast back to preschool. This was the rare concert where a puppet show was in the mix, featuring marionettes and a "puppetron" video screen. The sold-out crowd at Freeborn Hall loved it, so check out my review of the show for more about this meeting of Punch and Judy with pop music.

I missed the opening band, Lavender Diamond, and that may have been a good thing. Two readers wrote in to say that Lavender Diamond was terrible, horrible, etc. So that got me thinking: What was the worst opening band you've ever seen? My vote goes to Genuine Diamelles, which opened for David Bowie back in the early 1990s. Their set included an afwul, acapella verison of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and the whole thing was just, well, wack.

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