For starters, YTC, Lars and Front are all awesome dudes who love us fans as much as we love them, That said, I get the vibe that MC Lars is one of the friendliest guys you’ll meet period…
So I’m running a little late leaving home. I forgot my directions, but it’s on 20, so it can’t be that hard, right? I stop at Staples to print out the cover of Sinister Six, so I can ask YTC to sign it. She says 10-15 minutes. I’m in a hurry, I leave.
I call my buddy Jay to make sure I know where I’m going. He give me some landmarks, to watch for. I manage to get lost anyway. (I hate driving, especially in Boston).
I get to the venue ~8:20. Lars & Frontalot are chatting up fans in the front at merch tables.
YTC is trying to get through his dinner, while still talking to fans. I fall in line for the Front, who is trying getting in bites of his pad-thai between greeting eager fans. He’s got Final Boss T’s (and now so do I). Have I mentioned what a cool and nice guy he is?
We small-talk about shows, I let him know the posts I’ve seen on Sundays show were all flattering.
I make sure he gets in a few more bites of food before handing him off to the next rabid fan and sliding over to Lars. No D.G. disks :.-(, 3rr0r is sad. Lars tells me to give YTC crap on it. I proceed to razz him on both that and 8-Bit boys (neither were in stock). While I’m at it, I he gets map props for Sin Six
Run my swag out to the car, come back in, grab a beer, and I start looking for ppl from the forums.
There’s some dude in a brown robe wandering about carrying a microphone. It’s not STD because he said he wouldn’t be there, and his robe is black anyway.
A few minutes later the be-robed gentleman takes the stage. His name is MC What I’m Saying. He recently wrote a piece called ‘Sincerely’ pleating with the almighty Front to allow him to play a song at the show (it worked).
He does that track, and a clever meta-song one called Wrapped in a Rap. The latter had some solid ‘snarfer’ lines.
He finished up to a pretty good audience response and came down to join the (somewhat unwashed) masses.
YTC takes the stage next. I’d never seen him perform before, and man it was a treat. YT can really work a crowd. In addition to the beat on his iPod, he’s back by Frontalot regulars Sturgenius and Blak Lotus. With the exception of ‘band’ efforts, I think he may have hit a track from each of his albums.
(It did throw me when I started hearing one of the NES beats after listening to 8-bit on the ride)
Set highlights: In My Time (Prompting an audience shout-out to rhymetorrents, also, me getting a fist bump during the song 
), and I Am A Pirate
Set two starts with McLars joining YT on the stage and setting up his projectors to run off his iPhone.
The live-music video is pretty cool. This is the part where I tell you to go out and spend money on MC Lars. I feel like his wired mic was restricting his movement, and we should help him get a nice wireless.
YT and Lars work really nice together. I wouldn’t have guessed it before I saw it, but this works really well (too bad they don’t have my copy of D.G at the merch table 
). The buddy-love song was cool but; the gay pr0n was a little distracting, and Fronts mic levels were too low.
Lars busted out some new mixes on some classic tracks, keeping up on the advice he game me, “Keep it fresh”. Again in the interest of freshness, YT shreds some on guitar in support of Lars’s rhymes. Highlight track: 21 concepts; this song has a lot to do with my making music, and the video was great.
After the Lars set, we get a few minutes off before Frontalot. I run into the man who’se chasing down some water for the band. I ask where his ever-present headlamp is tonight, only to learn it’s now in the great gadget drawer in the sky (broken). I thank him for coming out, and leave him to prepare for his set.
…”check,” I hear over the mic, as the crowd immediately closes in on the stage. Front is as on as ever. YT is never far from the sage, playing the roll of Hype man. That’s like whipped cream on this nerd-rap sundae.
Front’s got a fella on the keys I’m not familiar with, NPR (Where’s G-min?), along with the aforementioned Sturgenius and Blak Lotus. The bulk of the set came off NCR and Secrets. Final Boss was the only track off that album we heard (Gross oversight: No ‘Black Box’ on the eve of this election day.)
Highlights: Everything, but particularly; Dude & Catastrophe, with NPR taking bass, and Lotus taking lead guitar. (Frontalot: “You guys here in the front row all got 98%” “Anyone here from Harmonix who can tell me how I did?”) Nerdcore Rising; I love seeing new verses for this, and YT’s line about Obama winning tomorrow (today) had the predicable Mass-mass-nerd-gathering response.
All the guys put on a stellar show. YT & Lars can really work a crowd. No-one was afraid to turn the mic on the audience, and I hope we didn’t let them down.
Alas, NCR brought an end to the awesome music, but gave us fans another change to shoot the shit with these awesome fellas, and thank them for a great time. Lars makes YT promise me he’ll get D.G. up on the interwebs. (It’s not up yet, but good things come to those who wait.)
It’s not after midnight, so I pack up my memories of this killer show, and head home. On the way home I get lost again. WTF.
The new albums (buy them):
YTC & MC Lars – Digital Gangster
MC Lars – This Gigantic Robot Kills
MC Frontalot – Final Boss
Shout outs to Katsu & Toevah (Happy birthday!)
MC What I’m Saying, YTC, Lars, Front: Thanks! That was awesome.
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