Well, pending a request, you're getting the full story of last night whether you like it or not. Last night Nickel Creek paid a visit to the Ryman and luckily we caught them there. A band called the Mammals opened for them, reminding me why I only like Nickel Creek out of that entire genre. It's pretty much amazing how tight the trio is live, their harmonies are perfect and their little variations they throw around in their songs were unbelievable. Around the third song Sarah Watkins broke a string on her fiddle (can that happen?) so while she was changing a string they ended up going into an interlude they jammed on until she was done. One of the best moments of the night came during their cover of Toxic by Britney Spears....which was pretty much spot on to begin with. During a breakdown a tech came out on stage and hit his laptop which was hooked into the sound system and for one bar hit a drum machine with some techno/hip-hop beat then turned it off and walk off stage. Everybody went crazy. Anyways, their song before pretending to leave was The Fox which they went in the middle into The Weight, by (is it the Band?). After coming back in their bassist ended up doing a sort of jig on the floor and it was still picked up by the mics, so it ended up being rhythm for the song. Plus Thile came over and while playing his part did song danced in tandem with the bassist. Finally, Thile announced they had a few special guests, the first of which was Bela Fleck (!), the second was Edgar Meyer (?). The latter drew the most applause but I had to look him up later because I had no idea who he was (apparently a big deal, apparently I'm just ignorant). Yeah, parking was six dollars, Josh was holding the ticket and almost didn't get it when we drove up to the place to let us out. That's pretty much it.
This has nothing to do with that. The Shins: Young Pilgrims
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