{"id":41351,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/live-at-the-bayside-social-club\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","slug":"live-at-the-bayside-social-club","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/live-at-the-bayside-social-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Live At The Bayside Social Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayside celebrates its essence of being a band with a scorching set that was recorded live in New York City on August 17, 2008. Charismatic frontman Anthony Raneri woos what sounds like a pumped-up crowd with tuneful singing and charming commentary between songs. At one point, he comments that they are filming their live CD, then corrects himself to say they are taping their live CD. Cocky or ego-driven bands would have edited that mistake out and, perhaps, overdubbed the flub with what he wanted to say in the first place. Not Raneri, not the rest of the members of the band, and certainly not the fans of this band that were in attendance would have accepted that.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

After all, Raneri\u2019s songs are mainly aching moments set to music. That\u2019s their strength. Raneri sings about messed up relationships. He comments in \u201cThey\u2019re Not Horses, They\u2019re Unicorns\u201d that \u201cShe was a termite, eating away at my roots\u2026 \/ I was filling a void with you.\u201d He sings about his own humanity in the band\u2019s best song, \u201cBlame It on Bad Luck,\u201d when he highlights his own failings and unfortunate luck.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

What makes this a great live release is that there seems to be just the right amount of balance between the crowd singing along — which is expected with lyrics this personal — and Raneri\u2019s voice. When the crowd hits every word in \u201cBlame It On Bad Luck\u201d and in \u201cThey Looked Like Strong Hands,\u201d it sounds like a duet. Raneri takes some liberty with the phrasing in order to make sure the crowd is not overpowered by his microphone. It\u2019s a delicate touch that recurs throughout this release. Another nice touch is when Raneri talks about the people he met before they started playing and mentions the different cities that their fans came from to listen to them on this night. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Guitarist Jack O\u2019Shea, bassist Nick Ghanbarian and drummer Chris Guglielmo provide plenty of spark on this release. Bayside sounds tight as they go through their material, especially the quick, minute-long basher \u201cHello Shitty.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Their acoustic song \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Peanut\u201d slows the set down and probably allows Guglielmo a brief pause before the band kicks their way through \u201cI And I,\u201d a song Raneri describes as being about \u201cfriendship and getting through shit you didn\u2019t think you could get through.\u201d When Raneri announces \u201cThey Looked Like Strong Hands,\u201d he is met with cheers from the crowd.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Bayside remains one of the best rock bands around, and their energy, particularly evident on this release, is one reason why I keep listening to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7898],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41351","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bayside","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41351"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}