{"id":2295,"date":"2017-11-16T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2017-11-16T03:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T08:25:02","slug":"john-carpenter-live-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/11\/16\/john-carpenter-live-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter: Movies for Your Mind Live in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Carpenter<\/a>: The Anthology Tour
\nThe Royale, Boston 11\/15\/2017<\/p>\n

John Carpenter is a goddam rock star. When I bought my tickets to him live, I wasn\u2019t sure what I would think. I knew that his music was a big part of setting up the atmosphere for his movies. I wasn\u2019t sure what I would think of the music divorced from the imagery and the experience of watching the films. I also knew that last time he played live dates, when Lost Themes II came out, he did Los Angeles and Reykjavik. Seeing him in Boston would be a once-in-a-lifetime chance. So I happily plunked down my money a few months early and Wednesday night, walked by the longest line I\u2019d ever seen outside of Boston\u2019s Royale<\/a> club. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll say it again \u2013 John Carpenter is a goddam rock star. He swaggered out onto that stage dressed in all black, and launched into \u201cEscape from New York\u201d backed by a five-piece and, including Carpenter\u2019s son Cody on lead synth. After the theme from Village of the Damned<\/em>, someone yelled, \u201cWe love you,\u201d and Carpenter responded by pumping a fist in the air. He threw a metal horn when the band played \u201cVortex\u201d from the first Lost Themes<\/em> album, non-soundtrack songs Carpenter noted were for \u201cthe movies in your mind.\u201d He exudes the untouchable cool of an artist who knows he\u2019s done and is doing something that solely belongs to him. <\/p>\n