I caught Bob Mould solo at the new(ish) Birchmere on Friday night.

Bob needs a rock band behind him. He's picked up this habit of stretching his lyrics with this "heyyyyeeeeyyyyahhhh nooooo" at the end of each line... now that I think of it he always used to do that, it's just a lot more noticeable when hung out in the open on a lone guitar. I've seen him do the acoustic thing before, but that was back in college when I was deep in my Husker Du phase and hanging on every note. Time moves on, and my attention span ain't what it used to be.

A trio format would help. Gimme a bass player to focus on from time to time. I'd like to see Bob field a new band for at least a few shows.

The club had XM Unsigned playing over the PA as we had dinner before the show - my ears were tuned to hear if they played any of Mike's tunes. Turns out I'd just missed one.

On preview: looks like I just missed another one. Guess I'm busy having a good time in real time.

Posted by Chuck Dolan at January 11, 2004 11:14 PM