Archive for October, 2009

Posted by Mark at 30 October 2009

Category: concerts

It was pretty much as fucking epic as you can imagine by looking at the list of artists and the setlist.

Here is Thursday’s setlist:

Jerry Lee Lewis

“Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On”

Crosby, Stills and Nash

“Woodstock”
“Marrakesh Express”
“Almost Cut My Hair”
“Love Has No Pride” (with Bonnie Raitt)
“Midnight Rider” (with Raitt)
“The Pretender” (with Jackson Browne)
“Mexico” (with James Taylor)
“Love the One You’re With” (with Taylor)
“Rock and Roll Woman”
“Teach Your Children” (with Raitt, Browne and Taylor)

Paul Simon

“Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”
“Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”
“You Can Call Me Al”
“The Wanderer” (with Dion)
“Here Comes the Sun” (with Crosby and Nash)
“Late In the Evening”
“Two Kinds of People” (Little Anthony and the Imperials a cappella, Simon offstage)
“The Sounds of Silence” (Simon returns with Art Garfunkel)
“Mrs. Robinson”/”Not Fade Away” medley
“The Boxer”
“Bridge Over Troubled Water”

Simon and Garfunkel encore:

“Cecilia”

Stevie Wonder

“Blowin’ In the Wind”
“Uptight (Everything’s Alright”
“I Was Made to Love Her”
“For Once In My Life”
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”
“Boogie On Reggae Woman”
“The Tracks Of My Tears” (with Smokey Robinson)
“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (with John Legend)
“The Way You Make Me Feel” (with Legend)
“The Thrill Is Gone” (with B.B. King)
“Living For the City”
“Higher Ground”/”Roxanne” medley (with Sting)
“Superstition” (with Jeff Beck)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“Hold On, I’m Comin’ ” (with Sam Moore)
“Soul Man” (with Moore)
“The Ghost of Tom Joad” (with Tom Morello)
“Fortunate Son” (with John Fogerty)
“Proud Mary” (with Fogerty)
“Oh, Pretty Woman” (with Fogerty)
“Jungleland”
“A Fine, Fine Boy” (with Darlene Love)
“Da Doo Ron Ron” (with Love)
“London Calling” (with Morello)
“Badlands” (with Morello)

Springsteen encores

“You May Be Right” (with Billy Joel)
“Only the Good Die Young (with Joel)
“New York State of Mind” (with Joel)
“Born To Run” (with Joel)
“(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” (with Joel, Moore, Fogerty, Love, Morello, Browne and Peter Wolf)

Posted by Mark at 13 October 2009

Category: General

Fresh off a post about the second half of summer, I am going to get myself started early on the fall blogging!

I intentionally left The Beatles/; Rock Band (TB:RB) @ Jane + Ken’s 9/9/9 party off the summer. It sort of kicked off the start of fall.

The game is extremely polished – the background videos to the songs are really awesome. One moment they reflect actual archive footage and the next they are morphing into an animated dreamscape exploring the meanings of the songs. Obviously, the songs speak for themselves on quality.

Ken and Jane played host while Lethy and I kept the revolving door of guests experimenting with TB:RB. Oddly, vocals and the harmonizing got the most interest. A few people took to the drums as well. Typically vocals are what everyone shies away from, it was great to see a lively free spirited, uninhibited crowd of people. But of course, these were Jane’s friends mostly, so that’s the sort I’d expect!

Amazingly we went the entire month of September without going to a concert… at least not one that I recall. Maybe that’s why the month went by so fast… nothing to eagerly anticipate. We almost forgot about P!NK.

I’m glad we didn’t. I half expected it to be purely about the spectacle of the stage show and lipsynced pop hits. I was wrong. VERY wrong. And gladly so.

Pink is half pop star and half rock front woman. I really wonder how she would do as a front woman of an actual band. I think she’d kick fucking ass. But that’s just me.

More than a third of the songs they played were covers in the rock vein. She mixed it in nicely and really truly seemed to have a lot of fun performing. If anything, I’d say she had more fun with the covers and seemed almost bored at times with her own songs.

I’d recommend P!NK to any person who enjoys a good live show. Regardless if they like her singles or not, she’s a great live ROCK SHOW.

Coming up in October:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shows 1 and 2 plus WEEZER HALLOWEEN CLUB SHOW!

Awesomeness. I can’t fucking wait.

Posted by Mark at 13 October 2009

Category: General

I’ve been insanely negligent in my blogging.

So let’s see…

At the start of July we saw Offspring at Sayreville Ballroom.

They bring a lot of energy and pack a lot of songs into a small time frame.

At the end of July, we saw AC/DC at Giant’s stadium. I’m glad we went and it was a real experience, but we left during the encore, and I’m glad we did. The high/drunk factor was extremely high that night and we avoided a ton of traffic by skipping 2 songs. Overall for being as epic a band as AC/DC is, I was disappointed.

Next up was Cruefest.

Godsmack was really, really good. The drum battle was awesome and they did a little medley of covers interlude which was a lot of fun. Despite being from Boston (and even mentioning that they were) they were able to work a crowd who was clearly there to see Motley Crue.

Motley Crue had an interesting set and their performance was pretty good… but during their 4th song, heavy rain and lightning sent us scurrying for the car.

At the very end of August, we drove up to Hartford with Paul and Jen, met up with Jane and Ken and saw Weezer + Blink-182. Sadly, due to traffic we missed Taking Back Sunday. They were just finishing their set as we walked from the parking to the venue.

Weezer performed well, but somehow I personally had a hard time getting into that show.

Blink had a lot of sound issues where the vocals and guitars seemed really washed out. The rain that threatened all that day held off though, so we had fun hanging out in the lawn area.

A week later we went up to Cape Cod for a few days. The accommodations were…. well the location was good and the amenities (pool, beach, wifi) were good, but the room itself was down right awful. The door had a half inch gap all around allowing in a draft of bone chilling 50 degree sea air. The bed was a fold down. While down, the room was… just a bed. The shower was awful.

But we had fun. It rained a lot, but we bummed around Provincetown quite a bit, ate good food, and did a lot of people watching. All told, a nice little 2.5 day escape from work.

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