| Show By Aimee Wilson Staff Writer You can have your Cake and eat it too was the opening line by the wild silver masked announcer at the Mountain a n Dew Ice Village The crowd with eager anticipation roared with enthusiasm ready for a concert sure not to disappoint This Cake concert one of the last for the Ice Village Olympic series was also one of the most expensive tickets on the line up and had some tough competition with the teeny bop rock group N Sync playing at atthe atthe atthe the Medals plaza the same time Cake an alternative rock group based in Sacramento with lead singer John McCrea started out their set strong but then immediately went into some mellow almost easy listening lis- lis listening listening lis lis- songs Just when the crowd seemed to be nearing the end of their attention span McCrea got the audience worked up saying Were going to play whatever we feel like playing he said Fans seem to find Cake easy to sing along to because the lyrics are more spoken words than actually singing so that even those with absolutely no singing ability can feel like t i roc rock k stars screaming poetic lyrics at the top of their vocal ability Tantalizing the patient audience Cake waited until more than halfway through their set to start into their big radio hits like The Dis ance Never There and Short Skirt Long Jacket An opening local band named Jackpot opened for Cake It had a mix of sounds between alternative rock jazz and a bit bitof bitof bitof of country Their clever lyrics and eclectic mixture of music styles seemed to please the crowd while engaging them A Ll |
