ouch, terrible review of a concert in Boston, MA…

Some things to clear up…
- Say Anything is not 1 CD in, (counting independent full-length releases).
- DC is 6 years old but it’s not his only band. You can say that his musical career is close to two decades.

…and uh, I lost my train of thought… on to the next thought:

However, I did agree that Say Anything’s 30 min set outshone DC’s performance (stop right now and drop that stone you’re going to throw at me). It’s not the same as it was 2 years ago that last time I saw them perform at the Greek Theatre here in LA. Don’t get me wrong I’m still a fan, if not, this site wouldn’t exist.

Anyhoo, tomorrow is the last night they will be performing on this summer tour in Wisconsin. They were suppose to play there last month but was cancelled to appear on The Today Show.

During Say Anything’s opening set for Dashboard Confessional, notoriously mouthy frontman Max Bemis felt compelled to heap praise on the night’s headliners.
‘‘If you respect bands that have worked hard from the beginning,” Bemis told the Sunday night capacity crowd at the Opera House, ‘‘Dashboard is definitely one of them. It’s no flash in the pan.”
Never mind that Bemis, 22, is just one CD into his career and Florida’s Dashboard Confessional is only six years old. Veterans they’re not. But it’s Bemis’ defensive tone that’s telling. The fact that Say Anything easily outshined the headlining band is further evidence that Dashboard’s live performance failed to live up to the smart guitar-pop of its polished new CD, ‘‘Dusk and Summer.”

Starting with a clumsy version of the new collection’s closer, ‘‘Heaven Here,” frontman and focal point Chris Carrabba began a set that pandered to teenaged confusion. Nothing wrong with that, but Carrabba’s self-serious press ramblings portray a man who aspires to greater artistic heights.

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