Big Star at Masonic Temple in Brooklyn recap

As you probably have noticed by now, Big Star played the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. Just before the show a small party of us had dinner at a cozy little neighborhood restaurant called Olea. Very nice to spend some time there with Lori, Kenny and Joe of the band Super 400. They made the journey down from… Troy, NY.

The audience was one of our best. I think I met, and shook hands with, almost all of them after the show as they passed through the exit. Ardent Music’s Jake Rabinbach (Jump Back Jake) had a smile on his face. No one seemed to mind the inadvertent new arrangement of “September Gurls.” I had just taken off my shoe to locate the source of pain on my toe when Alex started the song. Before I could get my sock and shoe back on he had sung through the first verse so I brought Jon, Ken and myself in with a drum fill for the first chorus. The new arrangement comes off pretty good in the “low fi” YouTube video of it I just watched.

David Fricke, being the nice guy that he is, attended and wrote about the show. His account is much more interesting than what mine would be. So here you are…
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/19/big-star-rock-1-record-radio-city-classics-at-rare-nyc-gig/

Thanks to all who came and lent their wonderful spirits to the show.

- Jody