07-27-2013, 09:57 AM
My family is at Tassarjara Zendo, so I indulged in some front-of-stage, which at the Boardwalk is a sandy pit where Cruzians take off their shoes and dance. Now, I've never seen Berlin before, or at least I don't remember, and was not really a fan. I just remember their pop stuff and Terri as a Rock starlet, just like all of us who were alive when Top Gun premiered.
Berlin on the beach. For free, a short stumble from home. This was a great show.
Berlin is now a 4-piece, but the drummer is inconsequential (Terri even forgot to introduce him for set 1) and the guitarist is competent but not stellar. The keyboardist is very strong and has updated Berlin's sound with some dubstep underpinnings (love when they drop the bass). It was really all about him and Terri. Terri is much more mature - she's stayed sincere to her age (no plastic or cocaine nose jobs like Stevie) and still has great legs. Here, look:
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Terri's voice is deeper with much less range, but she's genuine for the most part, save a few Vegas-loung act comments like "maybe you'll remember this one". She tells stories about her daughter and has that savvy of any longstanding rocker chick who has survived superstardom. Of course, Berlin does a 'greatest hits' show, but they have a new CD coming Sep 17 (seriously!) and dropped a few new tunes. One of which, the title track Animal, was pretty good, a rocking sexy song with an EDM sound. There was also The Way, which was terrible, like a Christian rock ballad. Acts do two one-hour sets at the Boardwalk so they tend to be redundant as everyone wants to hear the hits. Masquerade and Sex (I'm a) where surprises as I didn't quite remember those. Metro was grooving in the sand pit. For No More Words, Terri danced with the ASL interpreter. For Take My Breath Away, Terri walked out on the beach and sang directly to the audience. She closed with a cover of the Airplane's Somebody to Love.
Between sets I walked to the end of the pier to chat with my old pals, the wharf seals. When I was dropping out of Grad school, I used to walk out there and watch them for hours. I bought a can of Heineken - my second can of beer this year (honestly, I cannot remember when the last time I drank beer from a can before this year). Did you know Heineken cans have this textured no-slip grip surface now? I guess if you a so blitzed that you can't hold your Heine... It was terrible and I should really continue my avoidance of canned beer. I watched a seal fight, which was really just an alpha male bark off, but nature alphamale fights are as good as swordfights any day. In fact, they are the same.
My camera battery ran out on the wharf, which is too bad because Terri came out in the 2nd set dressed like a villainess - knee-high black boots, black high slit leather skirt, silver sequined bodice, and a black cape. And she made it work.
I will miss next week's boardwalk show as I have an appointment with a river. But the following week, it's WAR!
Berlin on the beach. For free, a short stumble from home. This was a great show.
Berlin is now a 4-piece, but the drummer is inconsequential (Terri even forgot to introduce him for set 1) and the guitarist is competent but not stellar. The keyboardist is very strong and has updated Berlin's sound with some dubstep underpinnings (love when they drop the bass). It was really all about him and Terri. Terri is much more mature - she's stayed sincere to her age (no plastic or cocaine nose jobs like Stevie) and still has great legs. Here, look:
Terri's voice is deeper with much less range, but she's genuine for the most part, save a few Vegas-loung act comments like "maybe you'll remember this one". She tells stories about her daughter and has that savvy of any longstanding rocker chick who has survived superstardom. Of course, Berlin does a 'greatest hits' show, but they have a new CD coming Sep 17 (seriously!) and dropped a few new tunes. One of which, the title track Animal, was pretty good, a rocking sexy song with an EDM sound. There was also The Way, which was terrible, like a Christian rock ballad. Acts do two one-hour sets at the Boardwalk so they tend to be redundant as everyone wants to hear the hits. Masquerade and Sex (I'm a) where surprises as I didn't quite remember those. Metro was grooving in the sand pit. For No More Words, Terri danced with the ASL interpreter. For Take My Breath Away, Terri walked out on the beach and sang directly to the audience. She closed with a cover of the Airplane's Somebody to Love.
Between sets I walked to the end of the pier to chat with my old pals, the wharf seals. When I was dropping out of Grad school, I used to walk out there and watch them for hours. I bought a can of Heineken - my second can of beer this year (honestly, I cannot remember when the last time I drank beer from a can before this year). Did you know Heineken cans have this textured no-slip grip surface now? I guess if you a so blitzed that you can't hold your Heine... It was terrible and I should really continue my avoidance of canned beer. I watched a seal fight, which was really just an alpha male bark off, but nature alphamale fights are as good as swordfights any day. In fact, they are the same.
My camera battery ran out on the wharf, which is too bad because Terri came out in the 2nd set dressed like a villainess - knee-high black boots, black high slit leather skirt, silver sequined bodice, and a black cape. And she made it work.
I will miss next week's boardwalk show as I have an appointment with a river. But the following week, it's WAR!
Shadow boxing the apocalypse