THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

In this installment of PETE's Corner, PETE reviews the recent Arcade Fire/ LCD Soundsystem concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Arcade Fire and LCD were great. The Hollywood Bowl is also a great venue. It's really, really fucking loud.

The crowd disappointed me for LCD kind of. Mostly sitting around, very little dancing, which was a problem the first time I saw them, but that was because they'd had a song on the OC so tons of Marina people came. This time, there were also tons of Marina/West LA peeps, but I guess too much time had passed between the OC and now for any of them to remember that they'd ever hear of LCD. Also, James Murphy opted against playing "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," for reasons I would like to believe were related to his sellers' (out) remorse about the OC imbroglio.

The West LA people had, however, heard of the Arcade Fire. There was a dude in front of me that pretty much reminded me of [Dude from College], and was reacting to AF the way you would imagine [Dude from College] would react if he thought it was cool to like/know all the lyrics of AF. I don't think I really need to elaborate there. But aside from that guy, it was pretty cool to see however many thousand people who AF had obviously connected with, all singing and clapping. It had me convinced there for a while that AF would possibly be around two decades from now, with us all married or divorced, shelling out $200 Ameri-Euros for tickets so we can drag our kids on visitation weekend, and tell them to wait in line for food while we sneak a joint in a men's room stall. ….

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