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Okay.
I’m over it. Deeeeeeep breath…..exhale. Ahhhhh, feels much better. 😆
Anyhoo, the reschedules are supposedly set; I waited a few weeks before 1) confirming the Keene show and 2) opting to go to the Rutland show. Once bitten…If I remember correctly, originally the Rutland show wasn’t gonna work. But now, the rescheds. flip-flopped and are as follows:
— Keene, NH Friday Sept. 28
— Rutland, VT Saturday Sept. 29As it happens, this works out even better, as now I’m able to make both. I knew that that would happen…yeah, shhhhurrr I did.
Keene is about 30 mins. from here, and Rutland is just up the country-ass road right outside my front door (!) by about 65 miles or so.
But I’ll still give BH hell about it. Hope he wears lots of Off! skeeter repellent down there in good ol’ boy Suwa-NEEE Flurduh…
T
Two shows in two days can’t be a bad thing – it’ll be worth the wait!
If I can get the cash together…
si_twining wrote:Two shows in two days can’t be a bad thing – it’ll be worth the wait!If I can get the cash together…
I’m good with the wait, delayed gratification and all. Not to mention that if there are any more “scheduling slip-ups” they certainly ought to be ironed out by then. Okay, I’ll let it go…
If you find that you do have the wherewithal, SiTwi, lemme know. It’ll be interesting to see how many of the board’s NE denizens make it — sometimes peeps in the NY/NJ/New Eng. area hear “VT or NH” and immediately picture the Quebec border. It ain’t like that, dontcha know; Keene is about 2 hours from Beantown and roughly 2.5 hrs. from Hartford, with Rutland being about 1.5 from Albany. All in all, not that bad and no one needs a passport…at least not yet. 😆
T
Oh, I’ve been to NH before several times, but only as far as Portsmouth and Hampton Beach. I enjoyed both!
Looks like a great time and place (but I guess it was Portsmouth that had the rounder theater I remember from its link last year?), but the BIG thing missing for me is the band! Best thing for me is new Virginia shows, and I could do PA and KY but at the moment…the ArtsQuest site in Bethlehem is spinning away with a server that’s been busy failing for half an hour (which I had to link to from my Bruce email since the ticket link on his site was also dead). Ah, technology, human is your suckiness
In my never ending quest to reside at the half full/half empty center
of the universe I DID get a fourth row seat after most of the section
in front of the stage was sold (four surrounding sections mostly empty)
and am now looking at NO listing on the Celebrate VA and etix pages
for the Fredericksburg show. Well, the schedule just says it’s on sale
Today, and the day ain’t over yet!
Checking on the Iowa show, ce n’est Des Moines et non des plus, mais de rein aussie!Okay people, anybody else gonna be there?
………..crickets chirping……….
Well, see you there, then! LOL
T
Good show last night at the ol’ Colonial in the thriving downtown metropolis of lovely Keene, NH.
JC has posted the setlist, beating me to it by a few hours. (I’d actually written one up this morning when I got home but the site must’ve logged me out; when I re-signed in, the entry was gone and my screen was blank…no, I didn’t black out! )A few mildly amusing anecdotes, as well as random and very subjective observationes —
— First time I’d been to a BH show where the shouted reqs of “Way” and “Rain” and “Jack Straw!” started to become annoying. Imagine how BH feels…That said, I didn’t catch many audience members getting impatient with the more atonal, out-there venturings (“Catenaires,” “Charlie, Woody…,” etc) of our beloved Bruce. Also — first time I’ve had seats on the left side of BH (and relatively close, 3rd row) so I was VERY ABLE to see all of the spider fingerings. Wow.
— He played “Anna Lee” on dulcimer, as noted by JC. Never heard the tune before, but it’s from Helm’s last solo album “Dirt Farmer.” Bruce mentioned that he was practicing on us as he’ll be doing the song at the Helm benefit/memorial show in Joisey this Wednesday.
— I think that BH was using a Steinway loaner; a truck from a Stnwy. dealer from White River Junction (directly up Interstate 91, across the CT River from Dartmouth, NH) was parked outside the venue. I’d wondered how he was gonna do that. This particular piano had a Moog Piano Bar, which enabled BH to get the choral synth washes without his regular kybd. laying on top. Is this something he does now (every show I’d seen his synth would be up top) or just when he’s traveling solo and it’s more convenient to get a piano with embedded tech?
— First time, believe it or not, I’ve seen a show with an intermission!
— Seemed to be quite the townie thing to do; despite it being a semi-hometown show for your humble narrator, my bud and I recognized only two people. Nothing else to do in Keene on a rainy Friday night, so why not? Either that, and/or there were many peeps from the outlying NH/MA/VT areas. Also, during the intermission, they (the townies) just STAND THERE. They don’t move, they carry on chatting in the aisles and walkways, they throng the entryway buying overpriced boxed white wine 😆 and they ignore you when you say “Uh, excuse me…trying to get thru, here…” etc, etc. Ugh, I’ve been here too long. 👿
— The Colonial needs to invest in a renovated sound system, or maybe just TURN IT UP. It’s a concert, people, not a social gathering with background noise…
— A seemingly booze-enhanced shout-out of what sounded like “Booilll Radley!” led to BH ripping on the guy thusly — “What’s that, you wanna hear a tune about Bill Bradley?”
— Was it just me, or did BH seem to be a bit tired? Maybe the constant heavy New England misting outside was bumming him out? Maybe it’s me carping and there were a few too many ballads for my taste, not enough rollicking good timey-tunes. Not to mention that BH spent the second half of the show overly concerned with two lil’ chirruns in the front row, aka the Gold Member section. Also, this show was the first time I’d submitted a setlist and whiffed on the whole thang (for the record, here were the reqqies: “Parisian Thoroughfare,” “King of The Hill,” “The Changes,” “Swing Street”) — maybe I should’ve brought my boys? I know, I know….waaaaaaaaaaah. 😆 Oh well, waddaya gonna do?
On to Rutland, VT for tonight’s festivities!
T
Saturday night wing-ding at the ol-skool style Paramount in exciting and enervating downtown Rutland, VT —
— I met JC and S, who’d been to the Keene show as well! Pegged JC as a potential listie when I saw him clutching a pen and paper. Heh. Thought that it would’ve been too much of a coincidence and didn’t wanna be pegged as a doofus, nevermind the reality. He goes “Are you ‘Takavl?!'” Ha. Nerded out about that and embarrassed my newbie Hornsby-bud JK, but oh well. JC and S — call me.
— Met another couple who were also at the Keene show, but didn’t get their names. I might’ve irritated them by (good-humoredly) ripping on them for leaving the Fri. show before the “Candy Mtn., Show Goes>Swan” encore…
— Speaking of getting ripped and ripped on, BH was ripping on all number of peeps: One dolt kept hollering “DID YA EVAH PLAY WITH JERRRREEE?” over and over. BH sez “No, I never played with Jerry Lewis.” “NOOO, GARRSSEEAH!” BH: “Uh, only about 150 times or so…”
Some other dipshit yelled out “Arizona State!” when BH was bragging on R&KH, BH replied “Uh, what does that have to do with anything? I know you’re just trying to throw me. Well, it worked. That’s OK, keep on heckling. What, did you guys go and get hammered and decide to come yell at me? I can handle it. BTW, seems like AZ St. has had some drafting violations? I don’t know that…but I do suspect it.” Let’s see, what else…this was a good one — “Ya know, every time I see ‘VT’ I think ‘Virginia Tech’…” Audience: “Booooooo!” BH: “Ha.”— Related: BH mentioned that he loves VT and remembers every gig here…whereas the previous night in Keene (NH) a chick yelled out about some show at the Hampton Casino — BH: “We played that song? I’ll take your word for it. I don’t remember much about NH…other than the crazy-ass casino people…” Heh.
— The Rutland Paramount? Yes. A good venue with good sound, and just loud enough. Coulda been louder, but that’s me. Watch those steep as hell VT-style staircases…been here 11 years and I’m still not use to that shit…and we even have one in our house!
— If you’re ever in Rutland, go to Table 24, a bar and grille around the corner (also a sponsor of the show, unbeknownst to us at the time). Best cheeseboigah I’ve had in a while, and try the Tavish-tini if you like your cocktails with a kick.
— BH must be pissed at me for dissing his dissing of the spring scheduling so that he could chill with the skeeters and gators and neo–neo-crunchies at the Suwanee Slopfest…for I whiffed on every single reqqie, although both nights I saw him chuckling at the reqqie sheets! He was prolly laughing at himself and thinking “I’ll teach that jackass and deny him real good!” 😆 If only….ha. (For the record — “Hot House,” “Circus,” and Leon’s “Hummingbird.”)
Rocking on —
T
Takavl, post: 8527 wrote:Good show last night at the ol’ Colonial in the thriving downtown metropolis of lovely Keene, NH. JC has posted the setlist, beating me to it by a few hours. (I’d actually written one up this morning when I got home but the site must’ve logged me out; when I re-signed in, the entry was gone and my screen was blank…no, I didn’t black out! )
A few mildly amusing anecdotes, as well as random and very subjective observationes —
— First time I’d been to a BH show where the shouted reqs of “Way” and “Rain” and “Jack Straw!” started to become annoying. Imagine how BH feels…That said, I didn’t catch many audience members getting impatient with the more atonal, out-there venturings (“Catenaires,” “Charlie, Woody…,” etc) of our beloved Bruce. Also — first time I’ve had seats on the left side of BH (and relatively close, 3rd row) so I was VERY ABLE to see all of the spider fingerings. Wow.
— He played “Anna Lee” on dulcimer, as noted by JC. Never heard the tune before, but it’s from Helm’s last solo album “Dirt Farmer.” Bruce mentioned that he was practicing on us as he’ll be doing the song at the Helm benefit/memorial show in Joisey this Wednesday.
— I think that BH was using a Steinway loaner; a truck from a Stnwy. dealer from White River Junction (directly up Interstate 91, across the CT River from Dartmouth, NH) was parked outside the venue. I’d wondered how he was gonna do that. This particular piano had a Moog Piano Bar, which enabled BH to get the choral synth washes without his regular kybd. laying on top. Is this something he does now (every show I’d seen his synth would be up top) or just when he’s traveling solo and it’s more convenient to get a piano with embedded tech?
— First time, believe it or not, I’ve seen a show with an intermission!
— Seemed to be quite the townie thing to do; despite it being a semi-hometown show for your humble narrator, my bud and I recognized only two people. Nothing else to do in Keene on a rainy Friday night, so why not? Either that, and/or there were many peeps from the outlying NH/MA/VT areas. Also, during the intermission, they (the townies) just STAND THERE. They don’t move, they carry on chatting in the aisles and walkways, they throng the entryway buying overpriced boxed white wine 😆 and they ignore you when you say “Uh, excuse me…trying to get thru, here…” etc, etc. Ugh, I’ve been here too long. 👿
— The Colonial needs to invest in a renovated sound system, or maybe just TURN IT UP. It’s a concert, people, not a social gathering with background noise…
— A seemingly booze-enhanced shout-out of what sounded like “Booilll Radley!” led to BH ripping on the guy thusly — “What’s that, you wanna hear a tune about Bill Bradley?”
— Was it just me, or did BH seem to be a bit tired? Maybe the constant heavy New England misting outside was bumming him out? Maybe it’s me carping and there were a few too many ballads for my taste, not enough rollicking good timey-tunes. Not to mention that BH spent the second half of the show overly concerned with two lil’ chirruns in the front row, aka the Gold Member section. Also, this show was the first time I’d submitted a setlist and whiffed on the whole thang (for the record, here were the reqqies: “Parisian Thoroughfare,” “King of The Hill,” “The Changes,” “Swing Street”) — maybe I should’ve brought my boys? I know, I know….waaaaaaaaaaah. 😆 Oh well, waddaya gonna do?
On to Rutland, VT for tonight’s festivities!
T
I was also @ the Keene show. I’d never been to The Colonial and dug the intimate setting. It hadn’t seen Bruce solo since ’06 and basically enjoyed the whole show. I too could have gone for a few more rollicking numbers in place of the ballads. I was very happy to hear “Continents Drift” live for the first time.
Just behind us was a very vocal woman who wouldn’t stop calling for “Show Goes On” and whistling very loudly, even throughout the song. It was rather annoying, and slightly tarnished a very nice rendition. I think she was the one who called out about some old show @ Hampton Beach.
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