Saw music tonight. Scratch that, hang on. Saw *amazing* music tonight. I know that sounds like an impossibility, to 'see' music, but that's what we call it here in these parts. It denotes that the tunes were just an aspect of a multifaceted extravaganza including dancers, lights, the motions and performance of the musicians and of course their faces as they created and reacted to the incredible sounds they were making together.

I hear music when it's on the car stereo or my iPod or blasting through the house. When it is a live performance music is something that is seen. And it's not just what's happening onstage. It is also when the band busts into Life During Wartime and the drummer makes the "get the hell up and DANCE people!" motion from behind his kit and the whole damn place leaps to its feet to get down and groove that I can actually see the music coursing through the room.

David Byrne tonight at the Calvin Theater in Northampton. It was stunning and fun and all in all just an incredible night of music. The songs were a sampling of his best stuff, from I Zimbra off of Fear of Music to Crosseyed and Painless from Remain in Light to a whole bunch of great tunes off of his newest offering. All of it was intended to transmit his brilliant and beautiful energy out of his body, out of his guitar and into the world around him.

This planet is better for his presence, his art, his music, words and moves and I felt privileged to share the same big groovin' room with him tonight.

Thanks David, you rock. And the best part is, you know you do but you don't let it go to your head. Instead you make sure it goes directly into more fantastic funky fun for all of us to share.