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  1. 47 today
  3. cool thank you .. i'm going to watch it as soon as the second part (or better a dvd) will surface
  4. jeez finally i did it!!! .. pardon me mates

    2006-05-30 Tweeter Waterfront - Camden, NJ

    Camden second stop .. night 1 was opened by new stuff and obviously a classic from the past makes the job this night .. Wash is the chosen one. Always very nice when it happens and this time is nothing less. Great way to wash thoughts and getting into the atmosphere.
    Atmosphere soon begins to get overheated when the venue is fulfilled by the crazy bass lines of Go .. executed almost with the right roughness. New material coming with World Wide Suicide (very actual nowadays too) and Severed Hand .. great song but played with the intro in the middle of a section in a certain way breaks the pace .. I’d better skip the intro at this spot. Great and pressing version however and wonderful transition to Corduroy .. there’s nothing much to say about this evergreen, right for every occasion .. absolutely nothing changed .. it is always amazing; wonderful the final ride led by Mike, who, just the time for a small breathe, soon launch the rocking pressing riff of Save You .. soon followed by Stone and the band. Great and great Stone in his solo hint. Always a heavy load this song. Eddie tackle it well enough at the end.
    The first run of the gig is done until a strange spot in sky is seen .. Given To Fly to start the mid section which is a bit weaker from the rest flowing through Army Reserve, Grievance, Gone .. not a big let down though
    Even Flow to start the final run of the main set .. honest one, not superlative like many other times but still quite good.
    You Are next and when a riot act happens I’m always happy .. love everything of this song .. the picking by Stone the extened notes by Mike the vocal line by Eddie the beats by Matt and Jeff the B3 behind the chorus .. great.
    Time to recite some wishes before falling in Satan’s Bed .. already in love
    I still can’t get full into this Garden .. nice but far from what it really is .. different from the 3 guitars rousing at full speed riff of Whipping .. come on and go for a great immediate punk rock moment.
    The hard rocking goes on passing through an enjoyable Life Wasted soon followed by the starting notes by Eddie .. Rearviewmirror to close the main set with the usual jam, Stone and Mike brilliant.
    Boom and Eddie open the first encore with Wasted Reprise into Man Of The Hour .. sweet sweet and beautiful song .. sweet Matt behind Eddie
    Parachutes .. I said one time is nice .. two is too much hehe
    Black comes to set the level to the highest point .. speechless .. nice the whispered double tag So Lonely/ We Belong Together.
    Take a bottle drink it down pass it around to be prepared for the Boom/Mike duel even though it’s much more Boom this time. This man really knows what to do.
    Classic Alive to close the encore.
    Hard punk rocking for the last ride of the final encore .. Last Exit, Do The Evolution make a really nice pair back to back .. both quite well tackled
    Now I would have preferred they kept this pace but they slow down a bit with Glorified G .. and, like I said other times, Comatose is not right at this point .. it needs to follow a pumped song .. it would have been better before Glorified G.
    Cool third Leash in a row .. the boys get taste with it hehe .. very good one at a very good spot. The Who tribute Baba .. I’m always impressed by what Mike does on his guitar when Townshend did it on a synthesizer.
    Yellow Ledbetter to close with the usual way to say bye.

    Very very nice double date in Camden with the first one on the spotlights and this one a little lower but it was still a very enjoyable concert .. not many standouts but it flows quite well

    Highlights: You Are – Whipping – Man of the Hour – Black

    Rating: 4 start
  5. Ed have you heard they're making a movie about the CBGB?

    can't wait to watch it
  6. Are they really ?..nice...I will have to check that out...
  7. I always enjoy reading your "poetic" reviews, Ron.

    Ed...what did you think of the NYR getting rid of "Gabby?"
  8. Without further ado... (no pressure you two )

    Washington DC (2006-05-30)

    Pre-listening comment: Assuming it happens, I will NOT let the playing of “Comatose” during the encore or the playing of “Unemployable” at any point during the show influence my rating.

    Just like the previous show in Camden, this show gets off to a fantastic start with “Release,” “WWS,” “Severed Hand,” “Corduroy,” “Animal,” “Do the Evolution,” and “Given to Fly.” I really enjoyed this seven-song run – they performed all of them really well.

    As expected, things slow down (maybe too much) with “Lowlight” – a song that is getting a little too much attention on this tour. They follow it up with two political/social-commentary songs, “Unemployable” and “Grievance.” It’s odd that I really liked “Grievance” a while back but, for whatever reason, it’s starting to lose some of its appeal.

    “Even Flow” gets things back on track (although I think they need to move it around the setlist more), followed by “I Got Shit” and “Present Tense.” There are a lot of similarities between the structure of the Camden 2 and DC setlists but I think this one has better songs – at least the two that followed EV (“Wishlist” and “You Are” were played in Camden – “I Got Shit” and “Present Tense,” imho, are better than both of them).

    PJ don’t mess around with their songs very much but they attempt an new intro to “Better Man” with Boom playing the piano. It doesn’t really work for me until be starting holding some organ chords and then EV “usual” guitar strumming kicks in. I think it has potential but needs some work. The lack of a “don’t run away...run away...run away...” ending is disappointing. I don’t think we’ve heard it on this tour aside from the one, somewhat separate “Save it for Later” performance back in Chicago.

    “Inside Job” is next and is, as usual, very good. They keep things new by playing the “Wasted”-combo, as it should be. Admittedly, I may have been “conditioned” to preferring these two songs together sue to listening to other, more recent shows.

    Two strong songs close the main set, “Why Go” (sounds great) and “RVM” which, to me is flawless until (and I only caught it because he drops an f-bomb because of it) EV can’t hold the note near the end of the song.

    Since they’ve already played “Wasted Reprise” they are able to make a clean start to the first encore and begin with “Man of the Hour,” which sounds quite nice. Being in DC you have to expect another dose of anti-Republican music and the get right to it with Dylan’s “Masters of War.” They do a nice job with the song but you know how I feel about them sacrificing one of their own songs for a cover of someone else’s.

    “From a big town to a small one,” the band plays “Elderly Woman...” much to the delight of the fans. “Come Back” is next (play it earlier) and “Alive,” which has yet to miss a show on this 2006 tour.

    Encore 2 is relatively short, opening with “Comatose” (not allowed to let this affect my rating), “Leash” (wow, they’ve found new love for it!), “Fuckin’ Up” (requested by Dick Cheney, according to EV), and finally, you guessed it, “Yellow Ledbetter” (with the “Star Spangled Banner” tag.)

    Highlights: For the second night in a row, the first seven songs, I Got Shit, Present Tense, and RVM
    Rating: Four stars
  9. Originally posted by RUMMY:I always enjoy reading your "poetic" reviews, Ron.

    Ed...what did you think of the NYR getting rid of "Gabby?"


    thank you
  11. Originally posted by RUMMY:I always enjoy reading your "poetic" reviews, Ron.

    Ed...what did you think of the NYR getting rid of "Gabby?"

    Shocked,but then again he was not playing well.I missed the last few games,as I was in Florida.

    I took my son to see the Panthers/Sabers game in Florida,03.28.

    Miller was off his game,it was a wild one.Panthers won in a shoot out.
  12. I quickly looked at the setlists from the SA gigs.Decent shows.I cant get excited about them...sorry.....but seems like same old.... same old.Im sure the fans there loved the shows though....

    Not to be a wet blanket.....but,why are they playing these 3 shows again ?? Didnt they just play in SA at the end of 2011 ?

    I see Ole and Got Some are still being played ad nauseam.RVM ending the main sets as usual.

    Got Some just wont..........................go........................away.





    I really hope the 2 (only) summer shows bring something more to the table.Chris wanted to do Wrigley,but we are all going to my house in Boca for the summer.Just so happens DMB will be in WPB 07.19 and 20..same date as Chi-town..or he would have insisted we go......
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