Grizzly Bear baffle me. Either they are walking into brilliance by happenstance (rumor has it the band didn’t know how to sing when it formed) or they are so beyond me that I cannot put their theory and composition together into some sort of logical system. I guess I feel like they are Animal Collective-light in the chaos category. I have moments of glimpsing the structure and just when my brain latches on, I lose it… it’s like waking up from a nap and trying to explain a dream around the breakfast table as it falls apart in your mind, and your friends just stare. Nevermind. Pass the milk.

I am more of a Department of Eagles fan (a Daniel Rossen side project), but I will say I walked out of the show with two vinyls for Veckatimest and the first single, my mind opened, and my inner musician in knots.

Openers Here We Go Magic were a pleasant surprise and were quite intense, focusing on the beauty of one chord at times for minutes while an undulating bass beat ebbed and flowed. Their lead guitarist was all over the place but formed a great skeleton for the vocals to lay on top of.

And for the icing on the cake, I had my iPhone 3G[S] poised shooting “Southern Point“, the opening track from Veckatimest and first song of the evening set when about 30 seconds from the end of the song security swarmed and kindly informed me I could not shoot video within the hallowed walls of the Fillmore. I thanked them and secretly flipped them off. Here are the fruits of my labor, oh what I won’t do for you people…