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August 03, 2007

Daft Punk - Live @ Red Rocks, Morrison, CO - 07.31.07

Judging from the fashion choices of the teenage skewing crowd on Tuesday night, specifically the risque (RE: hooker x raver) numbers on several young women, Paris Hilton's powers of skank inspired evening wear are much stronger than I ever thought possible. It all reinforced my plans for the life of a potential future daughter. Her closet will be monitored daily by a rotating team of guards and she will be trailed at all times when leaving the house to ensure a quick change in the car is not a viable go-around to my controlling tactics. You'll see no pictures of the vinyl, underwear, garter belts, or knee-high boots here because flaunting kiddie porn laws is not something we are interested in.

Two of my favorite French robots where on hand at Red Rocks this week for a long awaited show between the coolest wedges of rock on the planet. While one could easily argued that the men behind the metal masks could be just about anyone, since simply looking like the Daft Punk duo doesn't appear all that difficult beyond the skill needed to get into a motorcycle suit and don a helmet. For showmanship criteria there is the need to appear in constant groove with the music, a medically screened aversion to epileptic seizures triggered by flashing lights and maintaining the impression of electronic music manipulation. Enlist someone to make sure the pre-recorded Daft Punk playlist is accurately patched through the speakers and your "Daft Punk show" is practically complete. Add people, optional mind stimulating fertilizer (beer, other things) and you're all set. That said, and stressing the mindblowing light show, nameless DJ stand-ins rocking the robot costumes would still be worth the price of admission.

Any further discussion of Daft Punk on this website is beyond duplicative at this point. But for posterity reasons here is the summary short and sweet like: Daft Punk at Red Rocks was very much like the legendary Coachella show, except the element of surprise was gone, hordes of people were not being sucked in from other sub-par performances, and at one point both Frenchman flipped a switch turning their robot suits into red neon outlined Tron-bots, which was awesome. The performance of "The Prime Time of Your Life" was an extended version and very, very sick.

Enjoy the pictures. Lots more after the jump, along with remaining summer tour dates. Au revoir.

Posted by Merry Swankster at August 3, 2007 02:45 PM

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