Neil at the Lube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlmGZPRbY8
Post Show Banter >>>>
When diplo takes acid and goes to see John Mayer at the sphere…
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7EV-u-Lk2N/?igsh=MWV1NnRka2RrajA2Zg==
JRaD blew the top off bawlmoor last night.
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JRaD blew the top off bawlmoor last night.
Echo and the Bunnymen did not. Ian was just too sick…I think they should have postponed but can imagine all the problems with that….the band sounded great but the lead singer’s voice is such a distinctive part of show that without it
hutch wrote:
Echo and the Bunnymen did not. Ian was just too sick…I think they should have postponed but can imagine all the problems with that….the band sounded great but the lead singer’s voice is such a distinctive part of show that without it
I couldn't agree more. I left after the first set. It was just getting depressing. I didn't want to have him struggle through "The Killing Moon" and "Ocean Rain". The band was fine. "Over the Wall" was great, but the whole evening felt very off to me.
That's a bummer. I heard his voice has been declining over the years. But to be sick on top of that must've been hard to listen to.
Seems like Ian getting sick on tour is regular occurrence these days, at least in the US.
I thought his voice was in poor shape in 2011 when they were out doing Crocodiles & Heaven Up Here live. I also remember Ian getting snippy, because they were doing the albums as they were released in the UK, thus Do It Clean wasn't played until the encore.
I thought his voice was in poor shape in 2011 when they were out doing Crocodiles & Heaven Up Here live. I also remember Ian getting snippy, because they were doing the albums as they were released in the UK, thus Do It Clean wasn't played until the encore.
What is Ian’s problem with Do it clean? Hasn’t performed it live since 2019!
Man, his voice last night was completely flat and no power. I would have been embarrassed to not postpone the show….
Am done with Echo live.
Man, his voice last night was completely flat and no power. I would have been embarrassed to not postpone the show….
Am done with Echo live.
I was trying to figure out if “Do It Clean” was a b-side added to the later released US version…
Learn something new everyday via Wikipedia
"Do It Clean" and "Read It in Books", were included on the cassette but were initially omitted from the LP version of the album because the managing director of Warner Bros., Rob Dickins, mistakenly thought that they contained obscenities.
So “Read It In Books” not included in that albums tour…
Learn something new everyday via Wikipedia
"Do It Clean" and "Read It in Books", were included on the cassette but were initially omitted from the LP version of the album because the managing director of Warner Bros., Rob Dickins, mistakenly thought that they contained obscenities.
So “Read It In Books” not included in that albums tour…
Frosty wrote:
So that was Moen up there??
Man, he is just wasted on this band… guy is a beast of a drummer. Check him out on Boston Spaceships!!! It’s like having Keith Moon and tying one arm behind his back!!
I will let him know :)
Good show by Sierra Ferrell at the Club last night. No doubt she will be Anthem'd next time. Grateful I got to see her five times before then. Her new sound is more electric than her previous shows, which I'm not a huge fan of. And I'm definitely not a fan of grills, on anyone. Especially not on otherwise pretty people.
The opener Jake Kohn, was 40 minutes of a just turned 17 year old (shouldn't he be in school rather than on tour?) with nice hair sounding very constipated while banging on an acoustic guitar. At least he didn't have grills.
I saw one MAGA cap, no Biden caps.
The opener Jake Kohn, was 40 minutes of a just turned 17 year old (shouldn't he be in school rather than on tour?) with nice hair sounding very constipated while banging on an acoustic guitar. At least he didn't have grills.
I saw one MAGA cap, no Biden caps.
Sounds like she is making moves to go mainstream….
Space wrote:
Good show by Sierra Ferrell at the Club last night. No doubt she will be Anthem'd next time. Grateful, I got to see her five times before then.
I mean, don't let me stop you…
Ha!
Space has Grateful on the brain
Space has Grateful on the brain
Frosty wrote:
Sounds like she is making moves to go mainstream….
Yeah, I'm not 100% certain, but she may have even shaved her armpits.
The grills though, that's not mainstream unless you're a rapper, is it?
I think it’s a mainstream fashion statement
a few thoughts on PJ last night… ok fine, many thoughts.
we kicked things off at KEXP HQ, which had a pre-show party and a PJ poster display/sale/auction. i'm not a poster guy so i didn't look into how to buy (there was some app & QR code thingy) but the assembled poster collectors were clearly in heaven. the posters seems to span their entire career, and there were some really nice ones.
the openers, Deep Sea Divers, were decent. they would have been better in a club, but what a great opportunity for a local band to get exposure and experience on the big stage. best part was a riser at the front of the stage that read "GUITAR SOLO BOX". they ended their set with their lead woman doing an extended guitar solo - atop the box. truth in advertising.
when PJ hit the stage there was so much energy. i thought the pacing of the show was… interesting. "Release" was up first - a beautiful sing-along, very cathartic, but a strange choice to start a show IMO. then they went into "Thin Air" which is barely a step above a ballad. it was a great performance, but the song's energy didn't match the crowd's, IMO. the show was a slow burn, i found myself constantly wanting more, culminating with a blistering performance of "Rearviewmirror" - good gawd that RAWKED - FINALLY - unfortunately it was the last song of the main set. just as the band seemed to finally match the energy level of the crowd, they walked off stage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
luckily the encore (second set?) was more in tune with the masses (or was it my expectations?). after an eddie solo acoustic "Just Breathe" and the harmonium on "River Cross", they got back into the swing of things (Running, Do the Revolution, Alive, All Along the Watchtower, etc.). they brought the plane in for landing with "Yellow Ledbetter" and "Setting Sun", a perfect send-off. overall, the second part of the show worked better for me than the first.
eddie's voice was in top form. last time i saw the band was verizon center 2006, as far as i can remember, and i swear he sounded better last night than back then. he was also noticeably tipsier too ;D during "Daughter", eddie climbed atop the GA barricade and held the hand of a 7 or 8 year old girl who was perched on the shoulders of her (presumably) father. t'was an endearing/saccharine moment (and yes, she was wearing over-ear hearing protection).
for the gearheads: mike and stone played a parade of top-shelf guitars - a gold-top 355, a Karina explorer, a gorgeous mid-70's Les Paul Custom, an endless stream of vintage Strats, etc… even Jeff got in on the look-at-my-axe show with some tasty custom basses (looks like he had an 8-string Alembic at one point). the band had two keyboardists/multi-instrumentalists behind them, who also occasionally rocked some tasty sixes.
great show. tempted to sneak out tomorrow for night 2…
setlist and a few pix.
we kicked things off at KEXP HQ, which had a pre-show party and a PJ poster display/sale/auction. i'm not a poster guy so i didn't look into how to buy (there was some app & QR code thingy) but the assembled poster collectors were clearly in heaven. the posters seems to span their entire career, and there were some really nice ones.
the openers, Deep Sea Divers, were decent. they would have been better in a club, but what a great opportunity for a local band to get exposure and experience on the big stage. best part was a riser at the front of the stage that read "GUITAR SOLO BOX". they ended their set with their lead woman doing an extended guitar solo - atop the box. truth in advertising.
when PJ hit the stage there was so much energy. i thought the pacing of the show was… interesting. "Release" was up first - a beautiful sing-along, very cathartic, but a strange choice to start a show IMO. then they went into "Thin Air" which is barely a step above a ballad. it was a great performance, but the song's energy didn't match the crowd's, IMO. the show was a slow burn, i found myself constantly wanting more, culminating with a blistering performance of "Rearviewmirror" - good gawd that RAWKED - FINALLY - unfortunately it was the last song of the main set. just as the band seemed to finally match the energy level of the crowd, they walked off stage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
luckily the encore (second set?) was more in tune with the masses (or was it my expectations?). after an eddie solo acoustic "Just Breathe" and the harmonium on "River Cross", they got back into the swing of things (Running, Do the Revolution, Alive, All Along the Watchtower, etc.). they brought the plane in for landing with "Yellow Ledbetter" and "Setting Sun", a perfect send-off. overall, the second part of the show worked better for me than the first.
eddie's voice was in top form. last time i saw the band was verizon center 2006, as far as i can remember, and i swear he sounded better last night than back then. he was also noticeably tipsier too ;D during "Daughter", eddie climbed atop the GA barricade and held the hand of a 7 or 8 year old girl who was perched on the shoulders of her (presumably) father. t'was an endearing/saccharine moment (and yes, she was wearing over-ear hearing protection).
for the gearheads: mike and stone played a parade of top-shelf guitars - a gold-top 355, a Karina explorer, a gorgeous mid-70's Les Paul Custom, an endless stream of vintage Strats, etc… even Jeff got in on the look-at-my-axe show with some tasty custom basses (looks like he had an 8-string Alembic at one point). the band had two keyboardists/multi-instrumentalists behind them, who also occasionally rocked some tasty sixes.
great show. tempted to sneak out tomorrow for night 2…
setlist and a few pix.
Jealous!!!
They haven’t come around a lot lately…I saw them around 2010 at the Lube I think…
They could just play RVM over and over again for two hours and I wouldn’t complain!!
Set list has a lot of song titles I don’t recognize. I guess from the new album. The last PJ album I loved was Backspacer
Sounds like it was truly electric…
They haven’t come around a lot lately…I saw them around 2010 at the Lube I think…
They could just play RVM over and over again for two hours and I wouldn’t complain!!
Set list has a lot of song titles I don’t recognize. I guess from the new album. The last PJ album I loved was Backspacer
Sounds like it was truly electric…
Nice review. Last time I saw them was epic Ten show in Philly I was 2nd row GA (you can see me in crowd on the Philly Nugs show recording). Looking forward to Baltimore show.
One time long ago I won tickets to this show:
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/red-hot-chili-peppers-lukin-and-smashing-pumpkins-with-pearl-jam-at-houston-field-house-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute-november-5-1991
I won free tickets to this show on my college radio station. I couldn't find anyone who wanted to go with me, so I went by myself. I should say that at this point in time my college friends had graduated and moved away and I had stayed in town for grad school..so I was probably short on friends to ask…
I had seen RHCP in college and thought they were ok. I was a big fand of Gish, so Smashing Pumpkins were the band I really wanted to see. Never heard of Pearl Jam or Lukin.
So I arrived for the last couple of songs by the opener called Pearl Jam, and daggum, I thought they might have something there. I don't even remember the second band, Lukin. There appears to be no setlist. Did they even play that night? They appear to be named after a former member of Mudhoney.
Next up was Smashing Pumpkins. They were…kind of like poseur rock stars. I wanted to like them way more than I did, but they just didn't do it for me live.
Finally, RHCP played. Maybe it was the terrible sounds of the hockey arena. Maybe they just rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was a premonition that a someday 60 year old Anthony Kiedis would date 19 year olds (so says Facebook),,,but anyway, they annoyed the shit out of me and I left halfway through.
That was the last time I saw any of those four (three?) bands live. The two Pearl Jam songs were the highlight of the night,
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/red-hot-chili-peppers-lukin-and-smashing-pumpkins-with-pearl-jam-at-houston-field-house-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute-november-5-1991
I won free tickets to this show on my college radio station. I couldn't find anyone who wanted to go with me, so I went by myself. I should say that at this point in time my college friends had graduated and moved away and I had stayed in town for grad school..so I was probably short on friends to ask…
I had seen RHCP in college and thought they were ok. I was a big fand of Gish, so Smashing Pumpkins were the band I really wanted to see. Never heard of Pearl Jam or Lukin.
So I arrived for the last couple of songs by the opener called Pearl Jam, and daggum, I thought they might have something there. I don't even remember the second band, Lukin. There appears to be no setlist. Did they even play that night? They appear to be named after a former member of Mudhoney.
Next up was Smashing Pumpkins. They were…kind of like poseur rock stars. I wanted to like them way more than I did, but they just didn't do it for me live.
Finally, RHCP played. Maybe it was the terrible sounds of the hockey arena. Maybe they just rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was a premonition that a someday 60 year old Anthony Kiedis would date 19 year olds (so says Facebook),,,but anyway, they annoyed the shit out of me and I left halfway through.
That was the last time I saw any of those four (three?) bands live. The two Pearl Jam songs were the highlight of the night,
Yeah I saw RHCP once in Buenos Aires and think I left early…this was a legendarily bad show people still talk about 22 years later……i kind of can’t stand them….if you are that interested in Kiedis’ behavior read Scar Tissue otherwise you really should shut the fuck up as regurtitating stuff you read on the internet is pretty uninformed
I saw Pumpkins on Mellon Collie tour in Chicago and it was a decent show..
On Lollapalooza Billy was insufferable….someone threw a water bottle on stage and he threatened crowd with stopping show. Beastie Boys blew them off the stage.
I saw Pumpkins on Mellon Collie tour in Chicago and it was a decent show..
On Lollapalooza Billy was insufferable….someone threw a water bottle on stage and he threatened crowd with stopping show. Beastie Boys blew them off the stage.