October 9, 2007
20th anniversary show
Wow! When the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art has a party, it really HAS A PARTY. We just played in a giant, gorgeous tent outside the museum, blocking the entire front staircase. IT was SO COOL!!! Actually it was kinda hot in the tent, since it was 90 degrees outside.
This was part of the Intonation Festival - Rock bands playing at the museum in conjunction with this “Sympathy for the Devil” exhibition which is really cool. The museum is 40 days free right now, you should just go and check it out. There were hundreds of people milling around the exhibition that day while I went in there - probably thousands in and out of the tent as we played. What a great 20th anniversary show!!
And what a dream to play the song “Modern Art” that Rick wrote 20 years ago, in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Can it get much better than that? I wish I had good photos, and I totally forgot to take a picture of the audience. It’s hard when your 3-year old kid is staring at you from the audience.
That was a fun show. There was woman in front of us who was dancing like Molly Ringwald the whole time (and I mean that in a good way). Was also cool to see Gram and your parents in the audience, since up ’til that point they were like fictional Radio Zero characters to me.
oh man…i loved that song! people hated vinnie van gogh…my old band used to play a cover of that song. wish i could have been in town to catch the show.