The encores arrived, ‘You and Your Sister’ sounded, a beautiful pang in the stomach written by Chris Bell from the bottom of the well and Pat Sansone, the ‘young’ of the group (the dapper Wilco guitarist is already 55 years old) recognized that his 14-year-old me would be crazy, screaming with excitement, if I had known that one day I would be touring the world playing and singing Big Star’s songs. The yellow neon of ‘#1 Record’, a ‘bat signal’ to summon nostalgia , shone at the back of the stage and the audience, well stocked with stripes and experience, once again cried out for poetic justice. Because with almost no time to miss it, less than a year after celebrating in the same room the legacy of the best band, the worst luck group in the history of rock, the supergroup formed by Sansone, Jon Auer (The Posies), Mike Mills (REM), Chris Stamey (The db’s) and Jody Stephens, original drummer and only survivor of Big Star, returned to Barcelona to continue brightening the misfortune of Alex Chilton, Chris Bell and Andy Hummel. A second coming less crowded than the first that left the Apolo room half full and a certain feeling that perhaps it was not necessary to stretch the gum so soon. On this occasion, the thing was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Radio City’, an album with which Big Star laid the foundations for vigorous power pop and work in which Chilton took the reins of the band after Bell’s departure. A torrent of crystalline electricity, glorious melodies and daring structures that the five musicians reproduced with diligence, passion and, at times, even better voices than last year. Chris Stamey’s highs continue to be dull, but the step forward of Mike Mills was noticeable when it came to taking the lead in some sections and the hurricane momentum that Sansone and Auer gave to ‘Back Of A Car’, ‘She’s A Mover’ and ‘Life Is White’. The band celebrated 50 years of ‘Radio City’ ADRIÁN QUIROGAFrom ‘O My Soul’ to ‘I’m In Love With a Girl’ passing through a ‘September Gurls’ with a rushed and erratic start, ‘Radio City’ sounded in the same order in which it was published, although before that a brief selection of favorites fell (‘Feel’ to open; ‘The Ballad Of El Goodo’ as a betrayal heartbreaker at the first opportunity) and the night was extended even more with a second act of snack and open bar. Contained emotion with the acoustic delights of ‘Watch the Sunrise’, a walk along the sharp and desolate edge of ‘3rd’ to rescue the beautiful ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Night Time’ and bows to Chris Bell alone with the impetuous ‘I Got Kinda Lost’ and the monumental ‘I am The Cosmos’. Standard Related News No The Music Of Big Star: death suits you so well David Morán Jon Auer, Chris Stamey, MIke Mills, Pat Sansone and Jody Stephens ‘resurrect’ the songs of the American band in an emotional concert at the Apolo roomMore than two hours of melancholy in vein, pop with inflamed hearts and crunchy songs that keep Big Star’s flame alive and re-situate its importance in the history of popular music. Another thing is that, as those who chose football over the concert must have thought or thought it was better to miss them than to miss them more, this new tribute came too soon. We will have to see what happens when the birthday of the band’s third and last original album arrives.
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