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Ah, you're right - I do recall seeing just "Tom Petty."

I wonder if Tom Petty has evered covered PJ?

Matt...full report on Philly please.......tell me..isnt that a classic gig...or what....

I gave a small one earlier but I suppose I just listed WHAT was played and said it had vigor. It is indeed one of the best setlists I have ever heard. Opening with Crazy Mary was a bold decision - a good one, I suppose. I guess I am so used to it being played closer to the end of a show. After that, it gets nuts. So many fired up tunes starting with the full-on Spin The Black Circle. That's a great one to get things going. Nice contrast there.

I love the Hail, Hail/Save You combo. As far as the "rockers" go, those are my two favourites on their respective albums - I guess that's why they were singles. Green Disease is a good song - not a great one. Small Town is a good as ever while Nothing As It Seems is arguably better here than any of the entire 2000 tour performances - perfect timing for it in the set, as well. Even Flow is ...Even Flow....maybe not as good as Pitt, however, but still great energy.

I could go on and simply rave about the rest of the set (although no RVM) but it would be the same thing over and over: INSERT SONG was INSERT AWESOME. I liked the back-to-back You Are and Half Full - shows confidence in the new material. Too bad they didn't get I Am Mine in there, as well. I will also add that I was impressed by the song selection in the first encore: Animal, Go, Glorified G (I do like that song), Better Man, and Alive. The crowd must have gone nuts for this stretch of songs. Glad they played Soon Forget instead of The Who song (Blue, Red, Grey) that Eddie admitted he stole it from in Champaign.

A fantastic show indeed. Will listen to it again before moving onto Albany for Friday's "album of the (two) day(s)"

EDDMB

13 years

Nice review....Albany is a good gig,and you will enjoy it..........but Nassau...hold on to your hat....another classic..with Pitt and Philly...

RUMMY

13 years

I don't know if I can handle the final encore - I might I have skip it. I can appreciate why you all were upset but I don't know if I want ot hear the "boos" again (PJ20).

RUMMY

13 years

Does the band use a backing track after the line "Here's my church, I sing in the choir," in Do the Evolution?

clover68

13 years

uhm .. interesting pic ...

RUMMY

13 years

That's a big container! Maybe they're going for a double album!

EDDMB

13 years

Originally posted by RUMMY:I don't know if I can handle the final encore - I might I have skip it. I can appreciate why you all were upset but I don't know if I want ot hear the "boos" again (PJ20).

The version of Bushleaguer on PJ20,is cut.Listen to the Official Bootleg version....I was there and it was intense.I was pissed,and ready to boycott them,but I got over it.I did abstain from my massive PJ Bootleg collection, for a good 2 months,after the April 30th show.

The Boss once wrote a song that I hated,called 41 Shots.The song was basically saying the NYPD are killers...........he was shunned for a while as well.But again,I got over it.

But the 2 great MSG shows, in July 2003,made me forgive Stone and Eddie...

Like I said in the past,the "song" was too much,way too soon.Maybe if the band would have sung a tune call "Bin Laden - the KILLER" we would have approved.

Both bands dropped those songs.....

RUMMY

13 years

...well, sort of. They played "Bu$hleaguer" a bunch of times in June and July of 2003 - and it did turn up in 2006 (Italy comes to mind). I guess that's been it since but I suppose there's no point to playing it now that Bush is no longer in office.

Anyway, I will listen to it but there's no way it'll make my eventual compilation.

EDDMB

13 years

True...they did play it at one of the San Fran gigs in july 06...but its in the past right....it does have a good groove though...lol

clover68

13 years

unless a Bush jr jr will appear

hehe

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