From COF
Setlist: Intro (Adagio For Strings), Out Of This World, Want, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, A Boy I Never Knew, Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Maybe Someday, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Kyoto Song, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, The Blood, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, How Beautiful You Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Letter To Elise, Us Or Them, One Hundred Years, Bloodflowers
1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: A Forest (with extended lyrics)- video available exclusively here soon!
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Hello!!
I want to go to this conciert at the Houston's Toyota Center, anyone has 1 ticket (floor A,B or C section?) I saw there are no more tickets in this area... please? :smth100
I have a ticket, section b, row 3, but there is a slight problem. I'm using the ticket for me! :rocker
Sorry...couldn't resist!
Hahahahahahaa! :-D
damn !!!
lucky you!
Made it to Houston....
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Looks like I may need to schedule a return trip for that Celine Dion show :lol:
Quote from: j on June 09, 2008, 22:00:30
Looks like I may need to schedule a return trip for that Celine Dion show :lol:
oh crap you just reminded me that i completely forgot to go back to paris for her bercy dates!:
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Finally they played A Boy I Never Knew. Nice. :smth023
Probably the best show I have seen from them in years. They sounded great, Robert was very chatty and engaging. Simon seemed annoyed at the start of A Forest. Not sure if it was a problem with his gear, or if he was wincing at the noise created by Porl and Robert jamming basically face to face in front of Porl's amp.
It was amazing actually hearing Porl play tonight- because I was so close, I was able to hear Porl's guitar from his amp. Still a mystery as to why he is so low in the PA mix. Forgot to ask their sound guy about that! I have full videos of A Boy I Never Knew, A Letter To Elise (for my daughter, Elise!), and Plainsong. I also have the last 5 minutes of A Forest with the alternate lyrics. All should be posted here in the video section sometime in the near future.
Tonight ended show number 3 in the past 4 days (and 7 of the 10 shows this tour), and all that means to me is:
a) I need to get up in 4 hours to go to the airport to fly home
b) I have to re-enter the real world and go back to work (for a week then, I'm off to Cleveland and NYC)
Yuck! :smth100
And a quick pic from tonight until the Houston section of the gallery is set up:
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Sounds like a great show, j. Thanks for the report.
I certainly enjoyed being in close proximity to Porl's amps for a few shows. It makes for a completely different sound when you have him blasting away straight ahead and everything is coming from above, behind, around you.
I'm curious if that extended bit at the end of A forest was leaning towards Forever or really just some jamming going on to close out the song?
Quote from: j on June 10, 2008, 08:09:16
And a quick pic from tonight until the Houston section of the gallery is set up:
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:smth023
Quote from: crowbi_wan on June 10, 2008, 08:12:38
I'm curious if that extended bit at the end of A forest was leaning towards Forever or really just some jamming going on to close out the song?
I was waiting for it, but it always had the Forest bass line going. I can post a sample tomorrow (the video is uploading right now and is 150mb +....and you know as well as I do how fast Hampton's upload speeds are :roll:)
I forgot to mention....A Boy I Never Knew had different lyrics tonight. Not sure if RS just screwed them up, or if re-wording the lyrics was the "technical difficulties"
Oh that sounds as a great show ... How lucky you are j !
We are also lucky, now we knwow from the setlist the tuning of Robert's guitar on A Boy I Never Knew ! Actually it's "simply" tuned one tone lower than on a standard guitar.
I would beg that the "technical difficulties" are linked to that tuning ...
Quote from: j on June 10, 2008, 08:19:03
Quote from: crowbi_wan on June 10, 2008, 08:12:38
I'm curious if that extended bit at the end of A forest was leaning towards Forever or really just some jamming going on to close out the song?
I was waiting for it, but it always had the Forest bass line going. I can post a sample tomorrow (the video is uploading right now and is 150mb +....and you know as well as I do how fast Hampton's upload speeds are :roll:)
Thanks for the info and the upcoming video :smth023
Not all Hampton's are that bad. My poor speeds were happening at the Airport Hilton in SLC. Their excuse, too many businessmen :roll:
About The Boy I Never Knew, did RS really say that would be the only time they play it in the U.S.?
yes, i saw the live updates on COF, i wish i hadnt moved from Houston, cats that got the cream!
crowbi and j, - being in front of porl is SO amazing. he is one of the best guitarists from the past how many years?- and currently in the UK. i only got to see one show this tour, but right in front of him really made up for it. hes such a sweet guy too!
what seats ya got for NYC, j?
Quote from: crowbi_wan on June 10, 2008, 08:30:11
About The Boy I Never Knew, did RS really say that would be the only time they play it in the U.S.?
Give a minute and I'll let you know.....
Quote from: DJscribbles on June 10, 2008, 08:33:58
what seats ya got for NYC, j?
I'm right in front of the board for MSG and right next to the board at RCMH
Quote from: j on June 10, 2008, 08:36:39
Quote from: crowbi_wan on June 10, 2008, 08:30:11
About The Boy I Never Knew, did RS really say that would be the only time they play it in the U.S.?
Give a minute and I'll let you know.....
At the show, I thought he said that it would be the only new song they were playing tonight. @crowbi- check your email
that's a special double-opening, doing both 'out of this world' and 'want' back-to-back.
agreed about porl: it's better to be up close, to really catch him well. enjoyable.
Some pics are in the gallery. More to come after I get home...looking forward to my flight this morning so I can sleep. I'm rolling on 2 hours sleep right now :smth100
These last few shows have got me hoping that we'll get a few surprises in Atlanta on Sunday...so much variety!
Quote from: Plainsong on June 10, 2008, 16:13:14
These last few shows have got me hoping that we'll get a few surprises in Atlanta on Sunday...so much variety!
it certainly looks like they have woken up/are waking up from sleep since the euro tour...
i was certainly expecting much more static setlists for the US tour too.
i hope they won't go back to being static when/if they start touring for the new album.
j, thanks for the pics.
the shows and setlists sound fantastic!!!! Wish I could be there!!! :(
Glad you had a great show in Houston j! Awesome set-lit & ABINK, I'm surprised they played it, I didn't think they would. And your pictures are great in the gallery! Thanks for sharing! :smth023