Josh had become my concert buddy, and it was good to have someone to drag me out of the house. WIth anyone, it could just be another night out, but with Josh it was another companion, for shows I might not have bothered with (even if I knew the group), and with someone who knew what he was talking about with music. He had mentioned the L7 shows earlier in the year when we were working together, and I had it on my calendar, then on the day of the show he had offered the ticket to someone else but they couldn’t go, so I was back in, though I could have been fine whether I had gone or not (as there would be other shows). Even though I had seen L7 twice already post-reunion, it was always good to see them and drink some beer (though only one for me). They might have crested their wave with Bricks Are Heavy, so that should have been the prize for seeing them on this tour when they played the whole thing, but that album didn’t get me so much besides for some angry riot chicks, and they were generally going to play “Shitlist” any night anyway. I was much bigger on The Beauty Process, when they finally went beyond pissy babes and into hard-charging forces of nature, and finally after seeing them as much as I had they got to it (even if the two weren’t my favorite tracks from the album). They sounded fine, going over riffs they had established long before they had to roll them out again after they got back together, plenty loud if that’s a matter beyond turning up amps, but making up for the same snarling from their (and our) youth, refining their sound if they had sacrificed as much in intensity. And those songs had aged well, barely fitting in the grunge scene for being the rare girls but standing out for it, and only using the mainstream as an oddity by slipping in for bigger crowds than they would have pulled at any other time (including now). They always stood on their own -- because they had to, if they were going to do it -- but they survived it all, enough to get back together, to throw it down yet again, no matter what their (or our) age.
“Wargasm"
"Scrap"
"Pretend We're Dead"
"Diet Pill"
"Everglade"
"Slide"
"One More Thing"
"Mr. Integrity"
"Monster"
"Shitlist"
"This Ain’t Pleasure"
"Andres"
"Fuel My Fire"
"Shove"
"Stadium West"
"Non-Existent Patricia"
"Fighting the Crave"
"War With You"
"Drama"
"American Society" (Eddie and the Subtitles cover)
"Suffragette City" (David Bowie cover)
"Fast and Frightening"
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