10/15/09: The Egg: Albany, New York

[sean.bonner]

Post your review.

01 - The Depression Suite
02 - New Orleans Is Sinking
03 - In View
04 - Ahead By A Century
05 - Putting Down
06 - Morning Moon
07 - Courage
08 - Thugs
09 - Honey, Please
10 - At The Hundredth Meridian
11 - Love Is A First

01 - Thompson Girl*
02 - Coffee Girl*
03 - Fiddler's Green*
04 - The Lonely End Of The Rink
05 - Bobcaygeon
06 - Nautical Disaster
07 - The Dark Canuck
08 - Poets
09 - Now The Struggle Has A Name
10 - Yer Not The Ocean
11 - Grace, Too
12 - My Music At Work

13 - Frozen In My Tracks
14 - Blow At High Dough

[skinman8]

Looks like a cool place.Can't wait till tomorrow!

[nnyvt]

Anybody attending?

[skinman8]

Right row B.

[thebends]

Anyone planning on posting a "live" set list? I can take text messages and post to this topic if it makes it easier.
PM me if this works.

[sean.bonner]

I was going to offer to take text messages as well. I guess I still am if 'thebends' changes his mind.

[mastodonfarm]

I'll text during the show. Email me your # at [email protected]. I'll reply with my number and well be good to go!

[sean.bonner]

I'll text during the show. Email me your # at [email protected]. I'll reply with my number and well be good to go!

email sent

[thebends]

I'll text during the show. Email me your # at [email protected]. I'll reply with my number and well be good to go!

email sent

Thanks mastodonfarm and Sean .... looking forward to it.

[mastodonfarm]

I shall do my inebriated best! All bets are off if they don't play depression suite! J/K!

[sean.bonner]

Live setlist:
http://hipbase.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14912

[greenscor]

25th show and finally Thugs!! Made the drive from Buffalo, it was well worth it.

[50bones420]

thats funny it was my 30th show and i finally got thugs it was worth the whole drive from buffalo

[barc2]

Great venue,great band,great show--- When is Gord going to be officially recognized as the greatest frontman working today???The fact he has another show tonight after a 7 hour bus trip is simply amazing to me after what I saw last night.My music at work and his journey into the crowd as the closer was a highlight never to be forgotten. I saw them at this venue 15 years ago and I will say it again-I could not imagine a better place to see this band perform--small, intimate,good sound ,great sight lines,room to dance etc etc. Saw them at a small club in Albany 2 years ago and it was a horrible experience---drunk 22 yr olds every where,hot,flags and posters ruining the view,terrible sound,band was off etc.Thugs was incredible last night and I could not believe how good View and Ocean sounded live and how much the crowd got into them.My only fault with this band after seeing them now 4 times over the last couple of years is there flow, or lack of flow of how some songs are chosen. Love is a First IS AN OPENER , Desperation Suite isnt!! Better suited for opening act 2. After acustic set they get the crowd going with RINK ,then bring everybody down with BOB,which in my opinion could slowly be moved out of rotation and no one would care.Then to close the show with OCEAN,GRACE and WORK-only to come back out with FROZEN IN MY TRACKS was just wrong-the place which was in a frenzy ,simply got quiet. Locked,Pistols,Bones , Fully ,would have been great there and unfortunetly for me were not played last night.

[pbryon]

I too thought it was a great show, and a great venue for them. Did anyone else notice that the sound got really loud during the second set. Maybe it was just me, but it seemed like the guitar got turned up or the lead mike got turned down. Much more difficult to hear the lyrics--and Gord's monologues--in the second act. Or maybe I'm just going deaf.

Not sure what to make of the handkerchief hijinks...channeling Elvis at a few points last night. But that's what you go for, right?