Originally posted by clover68:2006-05-10 Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Ontario
Night 2 of the tour and mainly night 2 at a same venue and often this is a symptom that the crossbar is going to be raised to a different level.
Different gig other number to open, classic way to lead audience into the show this time .. Release.
I liked Severed Hand opening the previous night but this is really something different .. a little “shy” start by Eddie but as the song goes by he releases himself like the song deserves till the final scream of the audience. Quite good one even though better will come in the future (for example with me under a cool rain hehe but maybe it’s just me too biased on that or maybe not).
After the releasing moment the openers of the day before come in a sort of rotated mode with Severed Hand closing the 3. Soon it’s clear that some rust has gone and the boys tackle the songs throwing em to the already quite hot audience.
Tonight they decide not to drop down the temperature but to raise it a little bit more with a double Hail to the people, Eddie starting to stimulate them .. sign that the boys are really begin to enjoy the atmosphere.
Unemployable, drab song using a PJ unit as reference scale, and Dissident .. escape is never the safest path .. but really .. who wants to run away at this point?! Hehe .. and even just before .. this Even Flow!
Performance in great form, Mike is on fire like an our beloved irish guy would say of his guitarist hehe .. Stoney usual rhythmic made by jewels, Jeff and Matt with their impressive carpet of sound, Boom in the background fulfilling the whole, Eddie eating the mic and .. Torontonians .. grand when Eddie passes the ball to them! “you’ve already topped last night crowd” .. being very likely many of them the same people the band has his part in that Eddie, who, just to not let the fever down, drops the notes of Corduroy which flows in top class .. double knock-out punches.
A rest is needed now and good way to have it in acting a Riot .. love the album, love I Am Mine and this version.
Low Light comes to keep on recharging the batteries for another unexpected very hard lash shot by a treble guitars riff .. very cool improv that introduces Whipping. Load load load
Hard to recover and the boys have some difficulties too .. fucked up start of You Are hehe .. delighting beat .. makes me always lost.
We’d love to have some shit by now and here it is I Got ID quite good honored by the first uncle’s tribute moment with a nice Cinnamon Girl teaser at the end .. oh if only they cover it!!! it would be great!
but Eddie wants to full involve the crowd again and what an easier way than being a Better Man? Hehe previous night it was an outstanding and this time it’s no less i think.
Jeremy, Marker In The Sand, Black, RVM a long closing of the main set … what the hell Marker between those 2 superclassic songs? Climax whould have been too high without it? Hehe
I have to say that the main set goes to the end in declining .. very good Jeremy but then the band seems to be a little bit short of breath; Black (we’re used to very high standards but not this one) and RVM shows that a little break is needed .. better the Why Go of last night.
But they’re not done as the encores demonstrate; first one starts in a lovely juicy way .. Wasted Reprise-> Man of the Hour ..very very nice with a sweety Matt backing Eddie. Audience return joining the performance in full for a quite great Small Town before the rocking fever lever grows back up with another driving mad riff that throws people into a state of love and trust. A good evolution of the show at this time is to do an evolution .. and here it is a very good one. Alive closing this encore; it’s always an ecstatic moment but I found this one nothing special.
tough start for the second encore with a quite tug Go. Happy birthday moment for an Alice in Chains mate celebrated passing the bottle around … Crazy Mary and the duel is supplied, Boooooom and Mike on the spotlight with the others giving them a good covering of shoulders.
Little band intro (aside Stoney hehe) leads to a predictable and due tribute to uncle Neil but Fuckin Up this time .. great .. song and performance.
Double close for this great concert .. Indifference first .. lovely Stoney dropping jems all over the place .. magnificent song .. great to release emotions of the night .. great Torontonians here too.
Yellow Ledbetter to finally lead fans off the show .. with Eddie sings the first verses laughing a bit because of a banner that Ed would not have appreciated hehe
nice snippets of Beast of Burden at the end.
Very very good night .. a higher gear .. pretty great and long set, a couple of drop down but the perfection doesn’t happen so often. Half star added to remark the difference from n1 (I added it to this too ).
I won’t be so good from now on hehe
Highlights: Even Flow – Whipping - I Am Mine – Man Of The Hour – Crazy Mary – Indifference
Rating: 4 1/2
