Post by spentbullets on Jul 14, 2008 0:13:49 GMT -5
I will now give a more detailed review of last night's show
Although both opening bands were finished 45 minutes earlier than listed, the band still didn't come on until midnight, to the same intro music as March. Greg paused at the mic to address us briefly "What's up motherfuckers?"
Idle Hands
Bonnie Brae
Seven Stories
Live With Me
God's Children
Hit the City -- I was having a good time, but I thought the sound was fairly poor this time around up until
Stations -- wow suddenly the sound is perfectly mixed and Mark is great as usual on this song. During the ending Greg looked back at Dave Rosser several times, seemed to me like he didn't like the harmonizing maybe?
Somewhere around here Greg mentioned that it was Sub Pop's anniversary and that both he and Mark lived here in the past, that he loved the honorary flag on the Space Needle, thanked so and so, etc
Bete Noir
Down the Line
St James -- Greg became very animated as soon as he's loose from his guitar onto the keys, this portion of the set is the definite highlight, these 3 songs could almost be called a medly it was so tight. Greg swayed and preened alot during St James which seemed a crowd favorite
tease Spanish Doors -- Dave and Jeff both started playing the circusy riff while Greg went to strap his guitar back on, and he was like "both of you, stop it you guys are reminding me of Life Goes On" and Dave said he wanted to play it and Greg replied "I know you do Corky, but save it for Europe they'll appreciate it more"
Each to Each
Front Street -- with the usual band introductions, when it came to introducing Mark, Greg just held his hand out towards him and the crowd went nuts, and Mark did the same for Greg very nice way to go about it this time. This song is 100 times better live than on record, kills again
encore
Papillion>Gospel Plow -- The band comes out and jams on Papillion for a couple minutes, then Greg and Mark come out. Greg has a bottle of champagne and toasts the crowd briefly. Err, count me among those who appreciated a new tag but also felt it was completely out of place. It was only the "Mary had a golden chain, hold on ... if you want to get to Heaven" part, after which the band played 30 seconds or so of an ending jam
No Easy Action -- fucking rocked, after Greg stops everybody and quickly says something to Mark, before they jump to
Number Nine
and that's the way the cookie crumbled, I was halfheartedly expecting a 2nd encore maybe of the same cloth as the 03 just Greg and Mark variety, but the house music killed off any chance of an audience rally again this time. Seriously, when it starts blaring away before the band has even left the stage it's kind of ridiculous.
So all in all, not as good as before but it was welcome that the main set wasn't at all similar to March, so it kept me in the mode
Christopher
Although both opening bands were finished 45 minutes earlier than listed, the band still didn't come on until midnight, to the same intro music as March. Greg paused at the mic to address us briefly "What's up motherfuckers?"
Idle Hands
Bonnie Brae
Seven Stories
Live With Me
God's Children
Hit the City -- I was having a good time, but I thought the sound was fairly poor this time around up until
Stations -- wow suddenly the sound is perfectly mixed and Mark is great as usual on this song. During the ending Greg looked back at Dave Rosser several times, seemed to me like he didn't like the harmonizing maybe?
Somewhere around here Greg mentioned that it was Sub Pop's anniversary and that both he and Mark lived here in the past, that he loved the honorary flag on the Space Needle, thanked so and so, etc
Bete Noir
Down the Line
St James -- Greg became very animated as soon as he's loose from his guitar onto the keys, this portion of the set is the definite highlight, these 3 songs could almost be called a medly it was so tight. Greg swayed and preened alot during St James which seemed a crowd favorite
tease Spanish Doors -- Dave and Jeff both started playing the circusy riff while Greg went to strap his guitar back on, and he was like "both of you, stop it you guys are reminding me of Life Goes On" and Dave said he wanted to play it and Greg replied "I know you do Corky, but save it for Europe they'll appreciate it more"
Each to Each
Front Street -- with the usual band introductions, when it came to introducing Mark, Greg just held his hand out towards him and the crowd went nuts, and Mark did the same for Greg very nice way to go about it this time. This song is 100 times better live than on record, kills again
encore
Papillion>Gospel Plow -- The band comes out and jams on Papillion for a couple minutes, then Greg and Mark come out. Greg has a bottle of champagne and toasts the crowd briefly. Err, count me among those who appreciated a new tag but also felt it was completely out of place. It was only the "Mary had a golden chain, hold on ... if you want to get to Heaven" part, after which the band played 30 seconds or so of an ending jam
No Easy Action -- fucking rocked, after Greg stops everybody and quickly says something to Mark, before they jump to
Number Nine
and that's the way the cookie crumbled, I was halfheartedly expecting a 2nd encore maybe of the same cloth as the 03 just Greg and Mark variety, but the house music killed off any chance of an audience rally again this time. Seriously, when it starts blaring away before the band has even left the stage it's kind of ridiculous.
So all in all, not as good as before but it was welcome that the main set wasn't at all similar to March, so it kept me in the mode
Christopher
