Every time I visit a major American city, I try to learn about important musical landmarks that occurred there. Here are a few notes from my Las Vegas weekend:
- I visited the corner of Kovul and East Flamingo Street. Why is this important? This is the corner where 2Pac was murdered. What was there? Absolutely nothing. Would somebody please spearhead a 2Pac memorial project at that corner? It was a long time ago; give him something!
- It's really interesting which burnt out musicians end up doing shows in Las Vegas: I saw signs for Bette Midler and Morris Day and the Time. If I go to Vegas 20 years from now and see signs for the Flaming Lips, Wilco, and Fiona Apple, I might kill myself.
- If you are ever in Ceaser's Palace, stop by the Elton John store. Can anybody else wear those clothes?
- Jimmy Buffet and Toby Keith own restaurants on the strip. Crappy pop stars get shows in Vegas, crappy country stars get a restaurant in Vegas.
- If there is one thing music lovers should do there, it's the Cirque du Soleil production Love. If you grew up listening to the Beatles, it's nice to see somebody do something so artistic, original, and beautiful with their music without altering it considerably. The visual sensory overload they produce on every track look like what John and Paul might have been thinking when they wrote these songs, drug hallucinations and all. The album Love really is only worth buying if you've seen the show, but it is a fascinating mix of tidbits of their song and it beats putting out another greatest hits record. So if you in Vegas, Love is worth every bit of the 100-150 dollars per ticket.
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Wilco and the Flaming Lips play shows in Vegas all the time, but as one-offs and not the 3 years at MGM Grand every night the same show crap alot of the musicians do.
Also, Morris Day and the Time are awesome. Don't try to front like they aren't.
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