Soccer’s a lot like jazz, or yazz, and to some extent, the popular rock band Phish — it’s free-form, flowing with an emphasis on space; the players feed off the energy of the crowd, and no sport better features tension and release.
So on the first weekend of Premiership football season, what could possibly be better than Bloody Marys, draught beers, a proper English breakfast and a full fixture slate that commanded a 7 am wake-up and seven straight hours in an ex-pat pub? The answer: not much, not even a free Galactic show in Central Park.
While I’m still processing the scene of Stevie Gerrard’s stunning 87th-minute free kick winner for Liverpool, you check out the week that was here:
- The evolutionary Beastie Boys play a real New York schvitz
- Van Halen will be reuniting in the fall (no freakin’ chance…)
- The truth behind rock n’ roll’s greatest love triangle finally exposed
- Farm Aid announces its first-ever NYC lineup for September’s event
- Marco Benevento may be moving to the countryside
- Craigslist offers you the chance to mumble like Bob Dylan
- More smack for us: It’s been 12 years since Jerry Garcia died
- Don’t forget to enlist in our MP3 Boot Camp, Grouse the Aisles for great downloads, and check out some videos in our Pullin’ ‘Tubes archives
And if you still don’t get the connection of music and soccer, just watch this video of 50 Cent and French superstriker Thierry Henry. Noice.
