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July 07, 2008
High Places and babies
High Places - Live at Stuyvesant Town, New York City
Safe to say all the free summer happenings in New York may have surpassed critical mass and reached the good intentions/terrible actuality point of an over-saturated entertainment market. High Places were not provided any favors by performing on the temporary stage in what amounts to the New York City equivalent of a gated suburban community. Or, as a former acquaintance who grew up in Stuy Town referred to it as - "the white projects". (via BV)
For the record, yes, Denver is still slow.
UPDATE 5:45PM: Word on the street is the video above was taken during the soundcheck and not an actual performance. I still think it is worthy as a funny visual for a band that taps into the feelings of child-like exploration in their arrangements. However, any inferred negativity towards the career trajectory of this young band is not implied or supported.
Posted by Merry Swankster at July 7, 2008 02:03 PM
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As funny, and sort of fitting for their aeshetic as that video is, I read that there were actually probably a couple hundred people in that park, just, uh, not up front...
Posted by: Jeff K at July 7, 2008 03:06 PM
The video is of course completely misleading. The entire grass area of the Oval was filled with people. The people were spread out all over the grass, and there were actually probably close to 50 actual HP fans there. They just weren't sitting or standing within 10 feet of the stage. I was standing near the soundboard recording the set, which will be up on my site as early as tonight.
Posted by: nyctaper at July 7, 2008 04:33 PM
That video is the soundcheck! It was probably 4 or 5 in the afternoon when that was taken.
Posted by: nyctaper at July 7, 2008 04:36 PM
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