Collaborating with Danger Mouse on Modern Guilt returned Beck to a number of previously disinterested iPods. This past weekend he joined forces with his pops David Campbell and David Campbell’s strings at L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl. During the 90-minute set, the elder Campbell (Beck’s birth name = Bek David Campbell, remember) conducted a full-size orchestra. Spinner was there:
As the orchestra added lush flourishes to the Nick Drake-esque “Round The Bend” and the haunting “Lonesome Tears,” Beck thanked the L.A. Philharmonic and Campbell multiple times, though the singer never mentioned his relationship with Campbell. Still, after a superb “Chemtrails” closed the show, father and son walked off the stage, arms around each other, wrapping up one hell of a homecoming for the singer.
Watch “Round The Bend” and “Lonesome Tears” on video, while you dry your lonesome tears.
“Round The Bend”
“Lonesome Tears”
Too bad Al Hansen’s not alive to make this moment that much more familial (and Fluxus).
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Nam June Paik would’ve made a great Beck video
Lonesome Tears is my favourite Beck song, but yikes! That was fucking horrible.
disinterested ipods? what a way to backhand Beck while saying the new album is good. Not only that, apparently no one buys cd’s…geez, and furthermore, the ipod isn’t the only music player out there, ah forget it.
Interested Zunes
fucking horrible? one of my favorite beck songs as well, but i would have killed to have been there. it sounds just like the album. great performance
fucking horrible? whats so bad about this. sounds just like the album, great great song and great performance. i would have killed to have been there.
I was there, and it was a great show. Judging the performance by a shitty-sounding YouTube clip doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway, my only complaint was no “Golden Age”
Actually, one other complaint which may start a shitstorm, but needs to be said – I love Spoon’s albums, but I’ve seen them a few times live (they and MGMT opened this show) and they are boring. Sorry if that’s blasphemous but had to get that off my chest
watered-down Nick Drake wannabe. it’s insulting. not sure why i didn’t mind when he wanted to be prince, but somehow this gets under my skin…
insulting? what an arrogant comment. even if you were nick drake’s son, that comment would be ridiculous. god forbid an artist show their influence.
i wonder if you would have said that, had the post not mentioned nick drake. it seems like such a lazy comparison anyway.
and i too thought that the “disinterested iPods” comment was a little odd too. yes, Modern Guilt is his best since Sea Change, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy making catchy as hell music in between. no smash hits, but the guy has a solid career.
note: he says “previously disinterested ipods” because it’s a fancy smart-assed way to say that indie hipsters rarely care about beck unless gnarls barkley is involved somehow