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Posted Sunday, December 22, 2002 at 1:56 AM
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Knowing jamiecarroll wouldn't be in attendance, I grabbed a memo pad in the gas station on the drive back from Murfreesboro, so here's the set from tonight's show:
Circus
Exorcising Demons
Look Out Below
Darkroom
Me and the Skirts
Kari-Anne
Walk You Home
Moonlight
Buffalo Head
See You Through
Leave it all Behind
The Beginning (Week One)
Exhibit A
Growing Old
Untitled New Song: "Situation gone bad..."
God Save Rock 'n' Roll
Thursday
FORCED-ENCORE
Bumblebee (!)
Two by Two
Action
What can I say? The Attic proved to be nearly everything it always has been: home to dozens of Features fans that exist cut-off from the access that Nashville area fans have, home to middle aged drunks out for the night, and home to a fantastic show. The oh-so-famous crazy dancers were there (I know because I went to school with one of them, the "livliest" at past shows) but they were unable to get their groove on because the area in front of the stage was packed before they could squeeze in. Sound was okay, but not as clean as I might have liked, or even as past Attic shows (better than Red Rose though). The band had some technical difficulties before starting and never seemed as "into" the crowd as they have been in the past.
Make no mistake, the band wanted to end the show with Thursday (and it was time, the drunks were throwing ice around by this point). It was pretty clear that they were done for the night. But the crowd wouldn't budge and so they regrouped and tried to figure out what they could play. "Bumblebee" was requested by many (fans who had seen them previously and had to get by on nothing but "The Beginning", it seemed pretty clear), and I was thrilled to hear the live version. Fantastic. To think, two days ago I'd never heard SWSA or Bumblebee live, and I'd assumed I never would. After Bumblebee, the band seemed at a loss for what to do next. People began yelling for "Psycho Killer," which I've always found a bit rude, so I decided that I'd yell for both a song that was their own and a song that they hadn't played that I thought would be an appropriate closer (since they always seem to close with Thursday, GSRnR, or Circus): I yelled for Action. Dunno if they heard me, but after I did, they nodded, went into Two by Two (again for the fans with only "The Beginning"?) and then straight into Action. I was thrilled. I felt somehow like I had given them a way to end the show.
Moonlight seems to be back in regular rotation, and that makes me happy. Again, tonight I heard what I thought to be a new bridge, but I could simply be used to the song from a very old recording and the bridge isn't that new. "Look Out Below" definitely had one less "Long Way Down" in the chorus, and I think it does sound better that way.
And so that a complaint about some aspect of the show can be lodged, there was a fan in a wheelchair that came to the stage as the band was setting up, and everyone around cleared the way so that she could see. But two drunk girls nestled their way in front of her and blocked her the whole show, dancing wildly and nearly falling on the poor girl a couple of times. I just felt that it was plain rude, and shame on the guilty parties, whomever they may be.
Nothing better than two nights in a row of Features, I can go back to Chicago officially "out of withdrawl."
Will
Circus
Exorcising Demons
Look Out Below
Darkroom
Me and the Skirts
Kari-Anne
Walk You Home
Moonlight
Buffalo Head
See You Through
Leave it all Behind
The Beginning (Week One)
Exhibit A
Growing Old
Untitled New Song: "Situation gone bad..."
God Save Rock 'n' Roll
Thursday
FORCED-ENCORE
Bumblebee (!)
Two by Two
Action
What can I say? The Attic proved to be nearly everything it always has been: home to dozens of Features fans that exist cut-off from the access that Nashville area fans have, home to middle aged drunks out for the night, and home to a fantastic show. The oh-so-famous crazy dancers were there (I know because I went to school with one of them, the "livliest" at past shows) but they were unable to get their groove on because the area in front of the stage was packed before they could squeeze in. Sound was okay, but not as clean as I might have liked, or even as past Attic shows (better than Red Rose though). The band had some technical difficulties before starting and never seemed as "into" the crowd as they have been in the past.
Make no mistake, the band wanted to end the show with Thursday (and it was time, the drunks were throwing ice around by this point). It was pretty clear that they were done for the night. But the crowd wouldn't budge and so they regrouped and tried to figure out what they could play. "Bumblebee" was requested by many (fans who had seen them previously and had to get by on nothing but "The Beginning", it seemed pretty clear), and I was thrilled to hear the live version. Fantastic. To think, two days ago I'd never heard SWSA or Bumblebee live, and I'd assumed I never would. After Bumblebee, the band seemed at a loss for what to do next. People began yelling for "Psycho Killer," which I've always found a bit rude, so I decided that I'd yell for both a song that was their own and a song that they hadn't played that I thought would be an appropriate closer (since they always seem to close with Thursday, GSRnR, or Circus): I yelled for Action. Dunno if they heard me, but after I did, they nodded, went into Two by Two (again for the fans with only "The Beginning"?) and then straight into Action. I was thrilled. I felt somehow like I had given them a way to end the show.
Moonlight seems to be back in regular rotation, and that makes me happy. Again, tonight I heard what I thought to be a new bridge, but I could simply be used to the song from a very old recording and the bridge isn't that new. "Look Out Below" definitely had one less "Long Way Down" in the chorus, and I think it does sound better that way.
And so that a complaint about some aspect of the show can be lodged, there was a fan in a wheelchair that came to the stage as the band was setting up, and everyone around cleared the way so that she could see. But two drunk girls nestled their way in front of her and blocked her the whole show, dancing wildly and nearly falling on the poor girl a couple of times. I just felt that it was plain rude, and shame on the guilty parties, whomever they may be.
Nothing better than two nights in a row of Features, I can go back to Chicago officially "out of withdrawl."
Will
You may like grandma's yard gnomes, but I've seen Rock City. Remember it.
Quote from carligula on Dec. 22, 2002 at 3:11 AM
