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Yeah, I guess I jinxed us. There haven’t been any recordings since I mentioned how well they have been coming along. My bad.
I hope tonights show will be taped.
I am leaving for Pennsylvania and heading to the show in about an hour or so.Hey T,
Honestly I don’t think it has anything to do with size of venue, because you could just get up and stand infront of your seat area to groove out. The seats are just assigned areas where some of the lucky ones have a better view and then some may have better sound.
I thought I had front row for this show but I actually have second row. I have the same seat I had last year when I was here for Bob Weir & Ratdog which was front row, but for some reason they added another row upfront for this show. Last year row B was front now its row A.
Yeah this venue was rocking last year when I seen Ratdog so the small venue thing shouldn’t matter. Its the unbalanced fan levels and very diverse crowd that Bruce has. The casual fans seem to out weigh the die-hards thats for sure and really strange.BTW, the Carnegie Music Hall is actually a pretty cool venue. The sound is horrible if you’re in the balcony but down front its great. To buy beer you actually have to walk outside of the front of the venue and walk in through another door to another room, its actually pretty funny. They let you in and out anytime you want.
First off I must point out that I noticed that the sound quality on this album isn’t the greatest, but this is a good album with only a couple of fillers.
So far my favorite track is ‘Paperboy’, this totally sounds like a Beatles song.
Cyclone and Invisible are my other favs. Cant wait to hear them live, hopefully Sunday.
Tango King wrote:The tapes have been great so far!! Although I haven’t gotten my grubby little hands on Portsmouth or Albany yet. GG, can you point me in the direction of those torrents?As for the rest:
9/26/09 Town Hall http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=528474
9/27/09 Beserklee http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=528507
10/2/09 Bridgeport http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=528646
10/3/09 Richmond http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=528654Im not sure about the Portsmouth show but my buddy was at this show and asked a taper after the show if he was going to upload his recording somewhere and the taper replied that he doesn’t do that, but was kind enough to give him his info for a trade. So far my buddy has emailed this guy twice since the show with no response.
Lets hope that those two shows do surface along with the rest of the tour, as the ’05 tour had 35+ recordings surface.
“Here’s what I can’t figure out: during the music the crowd was basically silent and seated. There was no lack of whooping requests and banter between songs”
God I hope that isn’t how the crowd will be at the two shows Im going to.
I hope the people that are sitting behind can deal with me and my friends rocking out as I don’t do sit down shows when its with the Noisemakers…sorry. I can understand a solo show but not when he’s with the band.
You want to see a live show from your seats go sit up in the nosebleeds. Both my seats are front row and eighth row and I will refuse to sit, plus I am driving more than 3 hours to each show.I heard Bruce plenty of times on recordings rip on the crowd for just sitting on their asses.
I have mostly seen Bruce and the Noisemakers at general admission shows so I never had to deal with sitters at those shows.
The two shows I am attending are reserved seat shows so hopefully the crowd isn’t going to be lame and sit there and force me to either sit down or get yelled at through out the show by the sitters behind me who cant see.
Please don’t sit at shows with the band, its disrespectful to them. Show some gratitude and dance. They feed of that energy and play harder, with a lame crowd they may become as bored as you look.Please dance!
I actually bought Bruce’s ‘slinky’ on eBay a few years ago for $31.
I was in a bidding war with rattailcollector007 and I won.
I have it framed in my office.
Its a great conversation piece.Maybe someday I’ll get him to autograph it
T,
I hear ya.
My favorite song from that album is ‘Lost in the Snow’ and I threw out three request for it hoping Bruce would think that at least three people wanted to hear it so that he’d bust it out but he didn’t.
I guess next time I write out 12 request in all different hand-writing and different color pen and marker then maybe he might play it 😆 .
I never got to see him play ‘Lost in the Snow’ with the Noise Makers…I only got to see him play it a two solo shows. So I’ve been chasing it for the past five years now.
Also when I was rapping with him I forgot to ask him about that song. I had it planned on what I wanted to say but I spaced out and babbled some other stuff instead of what I wanted to say.
Maybe next timehey Takavl.
My bad. It was a Genesis song and I think its called ‘Thats All’…the lyric ‘its just a shame thats all’ i must have misunderstood and thought he sang that same old song.
…and no the song after ‘SOTM’ wasn’t ‘Halcyon Days’. I would be pretty lame if I didn’t know that seeing that Halcyon Days is my favorite record 😆
I do know the song but I was too busy taking pictures and didn’t write it down and now for the life of me I can’t think of the name….mostly because it wasn’t a song that I jam often. I even went and sampled every song from the albums and nothing sounded familar. So hopefully there was someone there who remembers what it was and can fill in the last song of the setlist.
Also, ‘SOTM’ was supposed to go into ‘Mandolin Rain’ as Doug had his mandolin prepared but didn’t get to play it. I asked Doug about it after the show and he said that they were going to play ‘Mandolin Rain’ but at the last second Bruce changed his mind.
Thanks for sharing.
I thought Halcyon Days was his first studio album with the Noise Makers but he says in this interview that his new one will be.
Those are some good questions to ask the man himself. Go to his site and sign his guestbook and hope he replies.
Or the next gig you catch…try and meet him and ask. He is very approachable. I usually get to talk to him everytime I see him play.
Also along with Halcyon Days…Harbor Lights is my other favorite album.
I agree the imagery and photograpy is great and the locations look wonderful.I have been on board hiatus for a few months so I figured I’d check things out.
I see my last post got a few comments. Some good ones too thanks.Hey goaves,
that 2/21/95 (Vince’s 44th B-Day) show is actually my favorite from 95 and probably one of the best played shows of 95, good recommendation. I downloaded the sbd right before they made them unavailable a few years back and thankfully I scored it in time because it was one of the last magical shows.I can’t wait ’til this show. I got to see them in Buffalo last year and I agree with Tango King that the soundboard recording from last year is easily worth the purchase even if its missing two songs. The boys were on and looked like they were having a blast.
Its kinda funny because of the Garcia coincedences of last years Buffalo show and this years show, as in last years show was played on the day Jerry died and this years show is being played on Jerry’s birthday.
Has anybody ever been to this venue?
There really isn’t any good pics on their site but it looks like it gets pretty crowded.
I guess I’ll have to camp out early in order to ride the rail.I wish Bruce would play the whole Terrapin Station suite.
Yeah I got to see him do it with The Other Ones, but I would love to see the Noise Makers do it.Ofcourse some people can ‘get’ one without the other.
The point that I made but was clearly missed was…that how could a fan who was into pop rock Bruce back in the day….get into jamband Bruce but not ‘get’ the band that pretty much got Bruce into becoming a jamband player.
“If some of Bruce’s fans gain a better appreciation of the Dead’s music because they listen to him, cool. If this doesn’t happen, is that so bad? Isn’t there room in the Hornsby musical universe for all types of fans?”
Never said you had to listen to the Dead. I was just wondering how the posters that were basically bashing the band that turned Bruce on in the first place…even understand Bruce’s music but not the Dead.Anyways….
“and when I get to They Love Each Other on the Intersections DVD, I usually skip it. “
….I feel that they picked a bad performance to showcase Bruce’s time with the Dead on that dvd. It was a lackluster performance and never really one of my favorite songs.
If they were only going to put one performance on there it should have been something not only performed great but a better song choice.
When I first seen that track on the dvd I actually felt let down on the song choice and that it seemed purposely shown to make the Dead look boring or bad as claimed by a few earlier posters.
I know that isn’t the case, but what a bad choice to showcase Bruce’s time with Jerry and the boys. Especially for people who clearly misunderstand the Dead, that was Bruce’s chance to show his crowd what a great band he was in and he or they didn’t deliver when picking the track for the dvd.
Who knows Bruce may have still been doing ‘pop rock’ if he hadn’t met Jerry and played with the Dead.It makes me wonder why Bruce often talks to the crowd as if most of them don’t really know half of the songs he is playing, but suspects most of them being there for the hits. I have heard him do it once in person but quite a few times on recordings.
So my take is that this clearly is not the crowd(atleast not on this board) to even bother talking about the Grateful Dead to or with….just as when I try and talk about Bruce on the Dead boards or the board at ratdog.org.
….two very similar worlds of music but the fanbases are in two very different leagues.I ‘get’ Bruce without having to drink wine
Man, I forgot about this post I haven’t read it in a long time and was a little disturbed at a couple lame posts. It seems that the guy that some how doesnt ‘get’ the Dead but some how magically gets Bruce.
I mean…how do you even get Bruce without getting the Dead.
I may be taking a stab in the dark here but I suspect you an ‘older’ fan and Im guessing started jamming Bruce with the Range in the eighties, right.
Ok now lets do the Bruce timeline here…
Bruce and the Range doing their pop rock thing in the 80’s and start opening up for Bruce’s favorite band called the Grateful Dead also at this time Bruce stands in a few songs a night….
Brent dies in 90 and Bruce is called for keyboard duty but only wants to fill in part time so he guides Vince along seeing that Vince came from The Tubes and played a totally different style than the Dead…
anyways during this time you are off not getting the Dead but listening to other stuff …
but then during the early 90’s Bruce changes his style and gets jazzy and alot more jamming…
92 after the Dead Bruce gets a whole new band….
Ok now tell me how do you still ‘get’ Bruce after all that but for some reason not get the Dead.My point is that you went from pop rock music to stretched out jazzy jams… just like the Dead’s music and in which Bruce started learning to do while with the Dead.
They are his influence. Actually the Dead got me into ‘getting’ Bruce.I ‘get’ it….Nicos totally ‘gets’ it…..but after reading your posts I really don’t see how you ‘get’ it.
Unless you’re one those guys that Bruce always talks about in the crowd that comes for my hits and doesn’t know none of this other shit were doing up here.
Man, you must have been so stoned when you made those posts. 😳ps.. if I came off too harsh then 🙄
nicos said it pretty well in his last post.
go download a soundboard of 91 Dead show(my favorite year) and you might just finally get it.
You wont be ‘bored’ and wont need to be ‘stoned’ to get it. 😆Yeah I really enjoy the ‘Changes Made’ from this show. It was one of my requests and was great to get. My buddy and I both met the band before the show and asked Bruce to play WWL and Tango King and sure enough thats what he started with…well after the Little Sadie ditty.
I really enjoy alot of the versions of alot of the songs. The Tango King is my new favorite version along with his take on Standing On The Moon.
This is a good Sugaree, but there are a few moments where Bruce does something that kinda sounds weird and really doesn’t fit with the song. Its almost like he pounds on his piano. Give it a listen you’ll know what I am talking about. Bobby Read’s killer solo makes up for it though and saves it for me.
All in all it is my new favorite soundboard.Yeah that Talk of the Town for Portsmouth, VA is pretty sweet the ‘winging it’ at the end is great. I love the way Bruce sings it towards the end. Also the Country Doctor from that show is a smoker as well as the Lady with a Fan.
My new favorite munck recording is the new one I just got, 8/9/08 Buffalo,NY.
Not only because I was there front and center but also the setlist is one of my favs. He played three songs outta five that I requested.
The WWL, Tango King, Country Doctor, and Sunflower Cat were all smokers.
My favorite part of the night was Bruce doing one of my requests Standing on the Moon, he had a tear towards the end when he kept singing ‘I would rather be with you, be with you, I’d rather be with you’. I got alot of cool pics of the band and also met the whole band before the show and had them sign ‘Halcyon Days’.
It was great and such a wonderful memory.The only song missing is the new song Black Rats of London, I actually thought at the show that Bruce called it Badlands All Around You or something like that.
Sweet! Thats awesome that they’d put that show up. I was there and had a blast. I am downloading it this second.
I never thought that I would score a copy of that recording.
13th anniversary of Jerry’s death that day and Bruce paid his respects to his ol’ buddy that night.
Thanks for the heads up.RIP R.S.,
Man, how horrific to lose such a young and great musician.
It’s all too much and so surreal. I was on his site last month checking out his band’s stuff.
Such a sad day in the Hornsby community for sure. I always enjoyed to find Bruce recordings with R.S. guesting, he had such a great guitar sound, Jerryesq even. Who knows where his guitar talents could have taken him. You will be missed brother R.S.Excuse me, I thought Bruce could have attracted more people.
I usually see Bob Weir & Ratdog there when its packed with 1000.
I have never been there with so less of people.
So, judging by actuallly being there in a packed house is where my statement came from.I’m glad your first time there was a great experience though.
Thanks for putting up the fill-ins. I forgot to mention Little Sadie before the WWL.
Cool article about Bruce, thanks for sharing.
I requested ‘Tango King’, ‘Gonna Be Some Changes Made’, ‘Standing On The Moon’, ‘Harbor Lights’ and ‘Rainbow’s Cadillac > Franklin’s Tower’
I know that last one is a once in awhile thing but I talked to him about it before the show and he made it sound like he’ll play it for me but never did. I am glad to hear the three of the five/six. I think the roof would have blown off if they did do the ‘Rainbow’s > Franklin’s’. I kinda figured he would bust out ‘SOTM’ anyways but I still put up the request just to make sure or at least hope.As a huge DeadHead I thought it was great to hear him talk about Jerry throughout the show in tribute to the date of his passing.
I saw two tapers before the show with their gear, but later turned around during the show and seen them a few people behind me. So I guess they couldn’t bring in their taping gear.
Man, that would have been a great recording to have.
Man, what a night. We met Bruce and the Noise Makers before the show. It was great talking to them and getting pictures with them. I had them all sign Halcyon Days for me as that is my favorite album. We were riding the rail or atleast the end of the stage all night. Bruce’s piano was in the way of any great pictures but I’m sure some of the ones I took came out alright. The band played from 9:30 to almost 12. They had an opening band that probably shouldn’t have been up there. The only talented one up there was the guitar player. I felt bad because it just wasn’t their crowd so everyones just staring at them, counting down the time to when the real show starts. Here is the setlist from what I wrote down:
White Wheeled Limousine, Tango King, Country Doctor, Jack of Diamonds > (new song) Badlands All Around You?, new orleans style “Mr. Chuck Jam” for stage hand Chuck, End of the Innocence > Cruise Control > awesome Sonny Solo, Defenders of the Flag, Standing on the Moon > Halcyon Days, Tempis Fugit style jam > King of the Hill, Sugaree > Fields of Gray, Bach variations > Gonna Be Some Changes Made, Sunflower Cat > Alot to Laugh Train to Cry
E: This Too Shall Pass > The Way It IsHe spoke about Jerry Garcia throughout the show, naturally as it was the 13th anniversary of his death. All in all it was an awesome show, the band looked like they were having a blast especially Bruce and JV. They played 3 of my request out of 5. Setlist may be missing a few little dittys that he did during jams of some songs. I was to busy dancing around to write down everything.
It was great because before Bruce left the stage he came over to us and told us “thanks for coming out, hope you had fun, have a safe trip back, take care” as he was shaking our hands. It was great he remembered us from earlier as we rapped with him for a little while before the show twice. Plus he remembered me from earlier this year. Thanks Bruce you’re the man!Good times…
