Picture Show: The Hold Steady Goes to College
One week it’s the Flaming Lips at Brown, the next it’s The Hold Steady at NYU. Apparently it’s college time for our resident photographic genius Danfun.
Hey, NYU parents: Maybe this is what your $46,800 a year in tuition, room and board gets ya. For all that money, your kids can dance the Watusi (or however the devil it is you kids dance these days) at a semi-private rock ‘n roll show like the one on Thursday that brought The Hold Steady to NYU’s Kimmel Center.
The intimate concert did open itself to the public, and Dan managed to sneak his wiry frame through the doors to snap the following photos for us. He added, “The crowd was going crazy. NYU students were running up on stage and jumping in the crowd every couple of minutes. I haven’t been a pit like that in some time. In some ways it was really fun, in others it was just a little too crazy for me.”
Too crazy for all us older folk — we’ll just never understand these crazy kids and their newfangled electronic mail. Read on for some more shots from Dan…
Craig Finn does a fantastic side-shimmy move, and Franz the Cool Keyboardist even gets into the act with some clapping in this photo:
Phillip Seymour Hoffman sat in on a few tunes:
Victory, we have melted college kid face!
And now I shall get mean and show you my mean-face:
And since this show isn’t up on any free music-sharing sites that I can find, here are some links to other downloads for The Hold Steady:
