José González, Cass McCombs @ Henry Fonda Theatre, 11/27/07

Cass McCombs opened for José González tonight at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. It was a good show, but I'm pissed at the audience as usual for being too fucking stupid and loud during the opening set. Cass McCombs was playing acoustic and a handful of dumb bitches up front were being too loud the entire time. People were shushing them and telling them to be quiet, but they must've been fucking drunk for the first time in their pathetic young lip gloss covered lives, because they laughed and kept talking.

Anyway, Cass McCombs didn't play "Equinox" so I was pretty disappointed. I was really surprised to see bearded bassist Rob Barbato (of Los Angeles psychedelic shoegaze band Darker My Love and more recently of the legendary The Fall) at this show...he was playing bass for Cass McCombs. I also read that he played theremin on the album. Pretty interesting stuff!

Swede Jose Gonzales, who is mostly known for his folk cover of The Knife's electronic Heartbeats, performed an incredible solo acoustic set, with a spotlight shining down on him the entire time. The entire Henry Fonda crowd was respectfully silent. A moving experience, but maybe more of them should've had some respect for the opener that I went to see.