This week rollcall

anyone else going to the Red Palace for NYE?

James wrote:
Last night…Lucero proved they are one of the most boring bands in the planet.

And the Truckers killed it. Anybody know the song that namechecked "Sweet Home Alabama" toward the end? I'm not talking about "Ronnie and Neil", which they didn't play.

The song you are asking about is "Play it All Night Long."  It's a Warren Zevon cover. 

I thought it was a really solid DBT show.  Given that I'm not real fond of their last couple of records, it was nice to see them supporting that material less and playing some interseting picks from earlier albums. 

I strongly disagree about Lucero being boring.

Friday was the legendary DBT show for me. Thursday was the weakest but still a very good setlist (although I had to leave after Play It All Night Long to catch the last metro train. Wouldn't have been a problem with the 9:30 start time, but it's a small complaint), and Saturday was a hell of a lot of fun, but Friday just kicked ass, and they really seemed fired up throughout. I know they don't really plan setlists before the show, but it felt like they deliberately put together a set of some of their hardest rockers, and it was just what I wanted to hear them play.

Overall, I'm glad I was at all three shows. Including the covers/Booker T songs from Saturday night, they played around 50 different songs, which is nice to see. I was hoping for a deeper setlist, heavier on the slower soul side of the band on Saturday night, but I can't blame them for trying to keep the energy up. Like someone said, subpar DBT is still a great night of music.

And I'd never been to a NYE show anywhere, so the countdown/balloon drop thing was fun, and jumping straight into Green Onions made it even better.

That's odd. I looked at the setlist for Thurs and Friday, and was very glad i chose Thursday.

Here's what you missed after you left Thurs (quite a stellar finish imo):

18. Used To Be A Cop

19. Get Downtown

20. Lookout Mountain

21. Zip City

22. Let There Be Rock

23. Shut Up and Get On The Plane

24. People Who Died


http://www.oneofthesedays.org/search/setlist.php?Year=2011&Month=12&Date=29

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
Friday was the legendary DBT show for me. Thursday was the weakest but still a very good setlist (although I had to leave after Play It All Night Long to catch the last metro train. Wouldn't have been a problem with the 9:30 start time, but it's a small complaint), and Saturday was a hell of a lot of fun, but Friday just kicked ass, and they really seemed fired up throughout. I know they don't really plan setlists before the show, but it felt like they deliberately put together a set of some of their hardest rockers, and it was just what I wanted to hear them play.

Overall, I'm glad I was at all three shows. Including the covers/Booker T songs from Saturday night, they played around 50 different songs, which is nice to see. I was hoping for a deeper setlist, heavier on the slower soul side of the band on Saturday night, but I can't blame them for trying to keep the energy up. Like someone said, subpar DBT is still a great night of music.

And I'd never been to a NYE show anywhere, so the countdown/balloon drop thing was fun, and jumping straight into Green Onions made it even better.

Garland of Hours/Gordon Withers Wednesday
Dementia and Hope Trails/Yellow Crystal Star/Insect Factory Thursday

James wrote:
That's odd. I looked at the setlist for Thurs and Friday, and was very glad i chose Thursday.

Here's what you missed after you left Thurs (quite a stellar finish imo):

18. Used To Be A Cop

19. Get Downtown

20. Lookout Mountain

21. Zip City

22. Let There Be Rock

23. Shut Up and Get On The Plane

24. People Who Died


http://www.oneofthesedays.org/search/setlist.php?Year=2011&Month=12&Date=29

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
Friday was the legendary DBT show for me. Thursday was the weakest but still a very good setlist (although I had to leave after Play It All Night Long to catch the last metro train. Wouldn't have been a problem with the 9:30 start time, but it's a small complaint), and Saturday was a hell of a lot of fun, but Friday just kicked ass, and they really seemed fired up throughout. I know they don't really plan setlists before the show, but it felt like they deliberately put together a set of some of their hardest rockers, and it was just what I wanted to hear them play.

Overall, I'm glad I was at all three shows. Including the covers/Booker T songs from Saturday night, they played around 50 different songs, which is nice to see. I was hoping for a deeper setlist, heavier on the slower soul side of the band on Saturday night, but I can't blame them for trying to keep the energy up. Like someone said, subpar DBT is still a great night of music.

And I'd never been to a NYE show anywhere, so the countdown/balloon drop thing was fun, and jumping straight into Green Onions made it even better.

That is a great encore, but the only song they didn't eventually play at the other shows was People Who Died. I'm very pissed I missed that one though.

And it's not like Play It All Night Long didn't make for a decent set closer anyway.

Also, Friday's opener was more fun than Lucero, who I would probably love if I knew more songs. But I didn't, so the later half of their set started to bore me a bit.

thinking seriously about checking out jason and the scorchers on the 5th at iotas

Grey March/Dot-Dash  last night.
Kingface/Rustbuckit  Saturday.

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at Millennium Stage tonight
Buraka som Sistema at U ST Musica Hall on Tuesday
Thievery Corporation at 930 on Thursday
and the musical "Once" on Sunday in NYC

Sweets-what date you going to Thievery?

lily1 wrote:
Sweets-what date you going to Thievery?

i'll be there friday night.

Tonight!
Tabi Bonney @ Black Cat
Volta Bureau @ Uhall
Starks & Nacey @ LMW
Clockwork @ RNR

Should be a fun night!

Golden West Cafe tonight for me. Finally seeing Graveyard.

I won Tickets for Ghost on Thursday as well.

Swedish Invasion!

CJ Boyd/Anthony Pirog/Tag Cloud Tuesday
Screen Vinyl Image/Ceremony Wednesday
Malcolm Tent of Ultrabunny Thursday
K-Holes Friday
probably something Saturday

How was Graveyard?

Unsanity wrote:
Golden West Cafe tonight for me. Finally seeing Graveyard.

I won Tickets for Ghost on Wednesday as well.

Swedish Invasion!

Graveyard was better than I thought they would be. Doomy blues is a good description. They have an awesome rhythm section. The show sold out so it was mighty packed in there. The energy of the whole show was great, the crowd ate it up. Saw "Good show" Steve rockin' out.

Lame; only made it to one of the shows I listed above last week.
Was a good one, though. Malcolm Tent is a really funny dude.


This week: Plums/America Hearts Tuesday
maybe Noam Chomsky at UMD Thursday although the Friday lecture is the one that would interest me more but that conflicts with Jeff Mangum on
Jeff Mangum Friday and Saturday

Anyone else checking out Real Estate tonight??

Haven't been to the cat in ages, what time can I expect the head liner?

One opener? 10:00.

azaghal1981 wrote:
This week: Plums/America Hearts Tuesday
maybe Noam Chomsky at UMD Thursday although the Friday lecture is the one that would interest me more but that conflicts with Jeff Mangum on
Jeff Mangum Friday and Saturday

Thank you for the Chomsky reminder. For some reason I was thinking that was in March. If you decide to go you may want to get there early; Gildenhorn only holds 300. The last time Chomsky gave a political talk at UMD (1998) it was in Tawes, which holds about four times as many Gildenhorn.

Got to dig out my Saints shirt and Mardi Gras beads for Cowboy Mouth on Thursday