I guess you guys are talking about Krim outtakes? Do you have a link? I'm too tired from tarding to go look it up.
Yeah. Three songs.
Lots of press from Mixfest though.
SleepinIn always looks on the bright side. On reason we love her.
Okay, so...For once I don't really feel in the mood to write. My thoughts aren't organized.
There was some bad (Kris and Cale only played 3 songs, and Kris even said they were doing the "short version" of LLWD because they had so little time.) Really, I could hardly pay attention to the set because when I realized it was going to be that short I got annoyed, and I went down as close as I could get to the front so as to at least see up close (sort of) what little set there was. They were really good and gave it everything but I got the feeling they might not have been happy. (Steven Page also got three songs. He just accompanied himself on guitar. He was awesome, loved him.) He literally said, "Okay, I have ten minutes." It was ridiculous.
When S. Page and Kris/Cale were playing, the place was only half full (if that) and many people were just arriving, or walking around not paying a lot of attention. (Later, it was packed.) I mean, it was only 6:30 0r 6:45. They got no lighting effects and no video screens (they were reserved for the later acts). .
A woman I talked to told me she and her husband and son had just seen Spill Canvas, Switchfoot, and Goo Goo Dolls at Mohegan Sun (I think) -- casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.
All three of those bands played good-sized sets. S.C. played what would be the equivalent of an opening act set for the other two.
So, basically, this was just the Goo Goo Dolls tour, with Steven Page and Kris tacked onto the beginning of it, and Maroon 5 as the "surprise". To make it a "Mixfest" show. That's how I see it, anyhow.
Yet - I still can't believe Spill Canvas played a much, much longer set than Kris. They never even were advertised on the radio! [I have to give Kiss108 and the Kiss Concert the nod, in the Kris dept.]
The good: I met Cale maybe twenty minutes after their set, and I talked to him for a pretty long while. But - I never asked him about his son, ET (fail). He came from the backstage area (indoor/outdoor) and I just saw him and basically stopped him as he went by. He was really great, completely relaxed and friendly. There's no defensiveness, just the same as Kris. He smelled good. lol. Had on some kind of cologne.
I told him the set was too short, and he said, "I know! We thought so too!" He kind of stomped his foot in a frustrated gesture. I asked him what happened, and he was like, "I don't know, man, we expected to play longer. There's just a really tight schedule." Then I asked him if Ryland was there, since he walked in front of me (not that close, a few rows forward) while Kris and Cale were performing. I wasn't really sure it was him. "Yeah, Ryland's here. He was going to play with us! But then there was, like, no time. Like you saw. It was crazy. We're supposed to be playing somewhere here tomorrow, actually. Right around here, I think. In this area. I'm not sure it's advertised. I don't know. Maybe it has to do with this same radio station? I'm not sure. But Ryland should be playing with us then."
Then we talked about when I saw them in Worcester. Cale said: "That was a great venue. Did you see the Barenaked Ladies that night? They were awesome. We're playing a lot of dates with them this summer, you know. They're really good. We're going to be opening for Maroon 5, too -- in a couple of weeks."
People are right. He's really chatty. You don't even have to draw him out a lot. He talks to you like he's known you forever and you both just talked a couple of days ago. I really liked him.
The other plus was seeing Kris, though I didn't meet him this time. (Which I think is okay, since last time I talked to him basically one on one with no one else around. Hey, you can't have it all, every time, right?)
This time, it was a mad crush of fans. I'll tell you what's weird. kind of. Most of the show, all these people were waiting around the place where the performers entered and exited, and a lot were Kris fans. Some were Goo Goo Dolls fans, and I think three girls who talked to me were Spill Canvas fans. The Goo Goo Dolls fans were there for a meet and greet, though, and they went in after a while. There were still a lot of Kris fans. Maybe 60 or so.
At one point, the Spill Canvas guys were escorted out through the crowd by security, with their heads down, etc., which was kind of ironic, since nobody cared. Nobody said anything or screamed, or anything. Kind of funny. Yet they got this big set in front of the fuller crowd, at around 7:30, and Kris got screwed, basically.
So anyway, when I nosed around, these people (the crowd) were almost all Kris fans. Most were teens. Some were twentysomethings. Not just girls, some guys. One or two moms escoprting the kids. And me.
Oh, yeah. there were people there (a different group) who were Steven Page fans, as well. He posed for pictures for a good half hour. And signed autographs. Which is hilarious because it was longer than he played.
I waited forever. I needed to pee. Eventually it was discovered (by the same two girls who he asked backstage to get autographs in Worcester -- who have actually grown quite a bit taller, in eight months or so) that Kris and Ryland were sitting onstage, watching Switchfoot's set (I got a picture of it - sort of). There were about ten girls (annoyingly) screaming "Kris!!! Kris!!" while he was listening to Switchfoot. But Switchfoot was so loud the girls weren't bothering anybody.
When Switchfoot was done, Kris left the stage, and apparently he agreed to sign autographes. There was a tall, fat, annoying guy handling it, and he said there would be no pictures. But of course there were pictures, and Kris was making a lot of faces for the camera. He's one of the most charming, charismatic people. He doesn't even have to say anything.
The crowd had dispersed earlier and there were only about 20 people left, at first. But as soon as word got around (by texting, probably) that Kris was coming out, hundreds (literally) of people crushed in.
(TBC)
