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Damn, I knew I should’ve made the drive down south for this one. It was a last minute decision to not go to this after the Kent show. I really like this set list and I too am hoping this got taped.
I have been wondering why there hasn’t been much activity going on here in the past couple months.
There used to be the same 12 or so people that seemed to know each other and posted here almost everyday but I haven’t seen any of them here since the beginning of summer or even back in spring for that matter.
I for one, don’t do social media, don’t want to be out there for family members I don’t like or people I went to high school or college with trying to approach me out of the blue or scoping my business. So that being said I enjoy sites like this.
Yeah it is a downer that none of the usual’s frequent here much like they used to but that can always change some how.
I think Si does a nice job with the looks of the site, the updates, and has good attempts for ‘involvement’ of the members.
I’m sure there are some ways like polls or contests or something out there that could get the crowd interested again.
Unless most people really only check out Bruce’s social sites instead of coming here then it may be hard to turn it around.
One of my other sites I go to is ratdog.org which is insanely busy and at times has too much pointless threads to the point of thread abuse. I know Bob Weir/Ratdog may have a lot more followers to make that happen or maybe its just that Bruce has alienated fans or turned off casual fans so that they just don’t bother with these sites. One might think that after reading concert reviews from ticketmaster/livenation…but then again a lot of those are from casual fans that never kept up with the changes and expect Range or Dead stuff.
I think once a few new threads start coming in then the rest will follow as often I check this site out and don’t go further if I don’t see anything new written though I still try to write something once in awhile and any show I attend I always share the set list in hopes that it might start a thread frenzy.JF1, post: 9516, member: 411 wrote:So how was it just hearing piano and drums without any other instrument?I really like it. It actually works better than you would imagine.
Anytime I’m at a solo show I always wish for at least one more instrument.
I think I’d prefer piano/guitar or piano/sax duo but Bruce and Sonny complimented each other pretty well and looked like they were having a ball.
I think a Bruce & JT duo would be pretty cool too.There are a few recordings on DIME to hear for yourself if your a member of that site.
HDbahn, post: 9514, member: 428 wrote:Glad you found a silver lining to Chautauqua. I knew the neighbors (hey my spellcheck thinks it’s “nieghbors”) could hear the show but didn’t realize they got seats, too. I had to settle for Pat’s snow date in Roanoke without Bruce, but I had planned that before the Noisemakers tour. I still don’t know what the “jug-bots” were doing at the back of the Unity Group. Couldn’t hear anything but the other percussion-bots. I’m sure I’m boring everyone since there was not one geek who cared that Bruce switched pianos this year. Well, I get a solo show at SC prices where the CD is worth the price of gas.The orchestrion stuff in the background was connected to each Unity Group member’s instrument which I thought was looked cool and it was fun to see but I don’t think all of it hit the mic.
The bass player was hooked up to those glass bottles on the shelves and I think the accordion. The drummer was able to play the vibraphone and the bells. The dude on the keys was connected to the congas and something else I can’t remember seeing that I wasn’t able to take pictures of it during the show.
Pat was able to play the cymbals, vibes, bells and many other things. I was able to hear them front row but I think some of that stuff may not of had the mics close enough for the sound to go past the first 10 rows.Yeah I did notice that Bruce has been using a different piano…I noticed it last year in Aurora, IL that he wasn’t playing the usual Steinway. I know he was playing a Baldwin as well.
Yeah I really fell in love with that little village of Chautauqua.
The price’s to stay there are ridiculous but if you notice it does keep out the riff-raff.
I thought it was funny walking through the town at 12:30am and it was completely shutdown lights out not a soul on the roads and all the bicycles left out parked at all the bike racks…even old codger’s Rascals were left out on the sidewalks. These people really had trust in everybody. It was weird to have to walk like a half mile to the parking lot for the town and there were even bikes parked out there in bike racks and hardly any of them were locked up.I wish I was able to see Bruce or Metheny again so you’re lucky they’re playing near you. Bruce already has tix on sale for a show near Columbus, OH in May but that is way too far away to make the commitment seeing that it is a weekday show.
This was a cool venue in this sweet little village…it kinda seemed like a cult compound though but I can’t wait to visit it again!
This was a good show but I was a little disappointed in the set list that Bruce chose to play.
I guess he is done playing requests as this is the second show in a row that I noticed he didn’t pick up a single request or even mentioned a request. He seemed to already have what he wants to play made up in his mind and what he wants may not be what some fans want which isn’t a good thing.
Bruce and Sonny did a great job don’t get me wrong but this show kinda seemed like Bruce was just playing for himself to practice the new songs and play around with his SCK BSTD stuff.Pat Metheny’s set was great but I felt bad for him as well as majority of the crowd left after his fourth song…I later found out that the outer perimeter of this venue is free tix for the people that stay in the Chautauqua village.
Those of us that paid more for the good seats on the floor stayed ’til the end.
I was front row as usual but was let down by the fact that Metheny had strict orders of no cameras or phones so I couldn’t get any pictures but I did get some from the sound checks from a distance so I guess that’ll do.
I also got a picture with Pat Metheny after the show so that was cool!
It was awesome to see Pat play his 42 string Pikasso guitar…that thing pretty damn sweet looking.I think this was one of the best version’s of The Way It Is I ever heard as Metheny’s band played it with Bruce & Sonny.
Metheny’s solo was one of the best I ever heard other than one of Kimock’s solos of ’02.
Sonny and Pat’s drummer had a killer drum off which was another highlight of the tune.
Its a shame that they didn’t play TWII this good on any of the handful of recordings that are currently circulating as all those versions seemed rushed as the one we got here was stretched out with many killer solos.I just wish some better songs were played especially the ones I requested — Sunlight Moon, China Doll, Invisible, Country Doctor
One major let down was that I figured seeing that Bruce is on tour with Metheny that Bruce would play songs that Metheny played on but it didn’t happen. Pat’s only coming out to play on Miami and Valley Road…which had some sweet jamming, but I would have loved China Doll or Harbor Lights.
Estimated>Tango King, post: 9507, member: 8408 wrote:I was very Underwhelmed (though he did play my request for Loser though I had to Push him a bit). I don’t know what to say, but a guy who has seen bruce since 1988 over 45 times as Solo/Band and 30 times with the Dead, I am not that excited to see him or go out of my way to see him anymore, and this kind of saddens me.He’s only been on this tour for about 8 shows so far and there has been set lists and reviews from the first part of his summer tour.
Who knows maybe there isn’t a bunch of Metheny fans here or shows being played where these board members live and yeah this site might not be used up like .org is so >>>>Thanks for sharing your deadsume brah
So has anybody gone to these Bruce and Sonny shows opening for Pat Metheny. They played about 8 so far. I was wondering what people thought of it as I’ve read bad reviews but mostly from people who evidently don’t know who Bruce is past his Range stuff.
For example some douche taper from DIME said about being asked if he taped the Bruce set.
In comment [HASHTAG]#6536455[/HASHTAG] Scooter123 wrote:
I normally don’t respond, but since two people asked–
I was very disappointed in Bruce Hornsby. I remembered him with “The Range” and for a short time with the Dead, and recalled a fluid, rolling pop-rock sound, with melodic songs and interesting lyrics. Well, that isn’t the guy that showed up at the Greek.
Hornsby was a solo or at the most a two piece act, playing a dis-jointed, staccato type of keyboard jazz, with a counter-balance of equally dis-jointed back-beat vocal style that was frankly irritating, and I don’t irritate very easily. I was surfing the net trying to figure out if there were perhaps two guys named Bruce Hornsby, one the guy I remembered and this other really irritating jazz guy. Nope–same guy.
People were walking out of his show in droves. I turned off the recorder, as I did not want to listen to the performance a second time when I re-mastered the show.
I have broad musical tastes and can (and have) put up with many a disappointing act at the Greek, but the Bruce Hornsby show is not one which will thankfully see the light of day again.
Hope I have not offended any serious Bruce Hornsby fans.This taper is in the wrong business if he doesn’t know good music…I went through his profile and he tapes stuff like Wilson Phillips and thinks that they rock but for some reason couldn’t get our pal Bruce. If you go to DIME looking for Hornsby recordings this douche’s recording of Metheny pops up and thats where I found this wonderful review and figured I’d share this lost soul’s point of view on the music we here love.
So has anybody gone to these Bruce and Sonny shows opening for Pat Metheny. They played about 8 so far. I was wondering what people thought of it as I’ve read bad reviews but mostly from people who evidently don’t know who Bruce is past his Range stuff.
For example some douche taper from DIME said about being asked if he taped the Bruce set.
In comment [HASHTAG]#6536455[/HASHTAG] Scooter123 wrote:
I normally don’t respond, but since two people asked–
I was very disappointed in Bruce Hornsby. I remembered him with “The Range” and for a short time with the Dead, and recalled a fluid, rolling pop-rock sound, with melodic songs and interesting lyrics. Well, that isn’t the guy that showed up at the Greek.
Hornsby was a solo or at the most a two piece act, playing a dis-jointed, staccato type of keyboard jazz, with a counter-balance of equally dis-jointed back-beat vocal style that was frankly irritating, and I don’t irritate very easily. I was surfing the net trying to figure out if there were perhaps two guys named Bruce Hornsby, one the guy I remembered and this other really irritating jazz guy. Nope–same guy.
People were walking out of his show in droves. I turned off the recorder, as I did not want to listen to the performance a second time when I re-mastered the show.
I have broad musical tastes and can (and have) put up with many a disappointing act at the Greek, but the Bruce Hornsby show is not one which will thankfully see the light of day again.
Hope I have not offended any serious Bruce Hornsby fans.This taper is in the wrong business if he doesn’t know good music…I went through his profile and he tapes stuff like Wilson Phillips and thinks that they rock but for some reason couldn’t get our pal Bruce. If you go to DIME looking for Hornsby recordings this douche’s recording of Metheny pops up and thats where I found this wonderful review and figured I’d share this lost soul’s point of view on the music we here love.
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[MEDIA=youtube]2UAvw7tEo7k[/MEDIA]The new guys both did ok but hopefully this was a one-off type tour and we’ll get Bobby and Doug back for the next Noisemakers tour. The fiddle didn’t do much for me as these songs need the sax and ewi. I also missed Doug’s tone.
One thing that made me scratch my head a bit is that Bruce let Gibb play a lot of solos where he seemed to always have a leash on Doug’s playing…which I always thought it was strange that Doug didn’t get to solo in every song but Gibb seemed like he got to when Doug is the better player by far. Gibb can shred but a lot of that is just noodling. Doug has a Steve Kimock type quality to his guitar tone and playing.
I did enjoy the new band a lot more than I thought I would but the songs and sound did suffer quite a bit without our ol’ pals Doug & Bobby. I think it would’ve made more sense to just add Ross and keep D&B in the band.Estimated>Tango King, post: 9499, member: 8408 wrote:Bruce said “I’m going to play what I like and have evolved. Alot of others sound the way they did in their 20’s still and I don’t really care what people think they don’t have to come see me.”I’m not trying to sound like a dick but this is the kind of attitude that will ruin it for him and keep him with a small following playing small venues. A lot of my deadhead buddies won’t go see Bruce with me because of this.
What happened to the fans picking the set list. Like I said a few times before that it seems that request mostly get ignored these days as he used to play basically the show from nothing but requests but nowadays it seems that he’ll fulfill two or three.
I’m going to one of these Bruce & Sonny shows but so far they don’t sound too interesting to me.
I’m driving a couple hours to see them and paid $60 for tix and if I got that set list I would feel so let down as that set list isn’t good…too much show tunes for this kind of setting…maybe play one but not three…kind of a set wrecker in a way…especially seeing that these are sit down shows.
I hope it was just an off show and that better shows will be played…fingers crossed.I’m jealous you got Across the River as that was one of my requests. I even made it look like 5 people requested it hoping he thought a bunch of people wanted to hear it but I guess he didn’t want to play it two days in a row.
He played the two new songs during sound check but without lyrics so I still haven’t heard them yet other than the band tinkering with them instrumentally. I hear ya about Prairie Dog but I love the beat so I can get passed the fact that I heard/seen that song played at like the last 5 shows I attended. Also…it was awesome to get Red Plains!
Yeah I’d be interested in your recording…email that link son.Hey Jeff! Glad you enjoyed your Kentucky show. Pittsburgh was pretty sweet too…you missed out! I think my show had the cooler set list;)
–Sound check was at 4:30
They played:
Go Back to Your Woods
Tipping song? – instrumental
Miami – instrumental
at this time they were just practicing the instrumentals and Bruce kept asking Chuck Keith if he taped them and was talking about doing them in the studio…new studio album spoiler alert?
–Chessboxer opened at 7:30
–Bruce & The Noisemakers started at 8:20Go Back To Your Woods
What a Time * >
Dreaded Spoon *
Circus on the Moon (Everything is Alright)
(Cluck Ol’ Hen) Bruce sang the first line only
Tango King
The Red Plains *
Mandolin Rain
Loser
Defenders of the Flag (Bruce on accordion)
Valley Road (Bruce on dulcimer, Sonny on washboard, Ross on mandolin)
Prairie Dog Town * (Bruce still on dulcimer)
Resting Place
The Way It Is *
-encore-
Sunflower Cat > A Lot to Laugh, A Train to Cry* w/ Matt Menefee on banjo
Show ended about 10:10
This was a great show…the news guys did alright with some moments where I was really missing Bobby and Doug. Ross was alright but to take over Bobby’s role you gotta damn awesome but he wasn’t. He did have some good solos but there were times where I thought he seemed like he couldn’t hang. However, Ross did great with his band Chessboxer…which was a cool opener and helped forget about the rain fall.
As for Gibb, he did a lot better than I thought he would and looked like he was having a blast. I still prefer Doug’s tone though. Matt Menefee did really good on banjo…he should be in the band while Bruce is on this folky kick.The crowd was huge. There was a noticeable amount of folks that may have been there for the wrong reason but hey at least they got one song they knew and when they heard the encore they thought they were about to get another until they heard the lyrics.
There was some rain during Chessboxer’s set and a little towards the end of Bruce’s set.I’ve been bugging Bruce for years to play Loser and so when he did he looked over at me with a smirk and pointed at me…then later after they jammed it out a bit he forgot the last line and looked to me and mouthed ‘whats the last line?’ I totally lost it laughing at him….and then he walked over to a group of guys wearing Dead shirts and asked them but none of them could say a word. He then sat back down and tried his darnedest to figure them out.
I seen two tapers so hopefully they will upload them somewhere. Can’t wait to hear this show again as the sound up front riding the rail isn’t as good as it would be fifty feet back. Plus I want to hear if Ross sounds better than I remember. I took some pictures and might post them later.
JF1, post: 9447, member: 411 wrote:Noisemakers will always sound right in my opinion Something special about that name.There are a couple bands with the name…this band Captain Kneal and the Noisemakers came to town last year.
I too love the Noisemakers name and was only half-kidding with the name change but if he did change it while Bobby and Doug are gone(hopefully only temporarily) then I wouldn’t mind unless it was the Folkmakers because I don’t care for folk.
Hey man thanks for sharing the set list. I am pretty surprised that they have been less predictable than I have imagined with the new hired guns and all. Also, hopefully you pulled a nice recording…would love to hear it!
JF1, post: 9423, member: 411 wrote:As of now, Youtube only has Way It Is and End of the Innocence up from the Peachtree show.And Wow! Line in the Dust. Just awesome.
Why when people go to a BH show these are the only two songs they videotape:brickwall:…most likely cuz they’re just casuals and not diehards fo’ sho’. Don’t get me wrong I’m grateful people take the time to film and share but come on don’t these guys like the other songs as well or do they not know them.
Double WOW for Line in the Dust…I would love to see/hear that live. I’m gonna request it Sunday!
ALSO I’m GLAD he’s finally been playing Loser as its one of my favorite Dead tunes and I always loved Bruce’s version.
I’ve been requesting Loser for a decade now…only got to see one live back in 99.
So I’ll definitely be requesting both those tunes Sunday…fingers crossed:)Its always hard to decipher feelings through text so anything anybody says can be viewed as good or bad depending how much of a sense of humor you have. Some get pc and some tell it like it is or at least they way they feel. Gotta keep it real. I get both sides. Its a comment board and it’d be boring if we all had the same views and personalities…thats why I check this site out every now and then because of the one thing we all have in common and that’s Mr. Spider Fingers and his magic music.
Hopefully each of us on this board gets to see at least one Bruce show this year…that is all…carry on.Great work on that…I’ve always hoped for a book of Hornsby.
I mean, I got a bunch of cool Dead and Phish books and always wished Bruce would make one along the lines of much of the info in the bruuuce-wiki and maybe even have pictures of some of the places and people that he wrote about.This is a great thread!
I totally agree with ya’ll.
Hopefully fans won’t desert our boy ol’ Brucie.
I mean, I passed up the Kentucky show once I learned that Doug & Bobby got dropped so when the tix went on sale I bought Dave Matthews tix instead.
However, I was stoked once the free show was announced so I can get to see the ‘new’ line-up with the ‘new’ sound without feeling resentment of the change that has become so hard to swallow for me.The jazzy jamming is what made me a fan of BH&NM….I’m not a big fan of bluegrass/folk music. The one or two tunes Bruce would bust out per show was just enough for my taste or fix like JF1 mentioned. I seen the Hornsby/Skaggs thing back in ’07 and thought it was ok but probably because most of it was Bruce’s tunes.
This ‘change’ keeps me thinking that the quality of the songs and set lists will somehow suffer and become predictable because the new guys aren’t necessarily improv-type players. It just don’t make sense to get rid of two guys that know the catalog and the deep musical direction to be able to do all those song changes and teases that Bruce throws at us. I’m really afraid that we’re gonna get the same 12 songs each night. I have noticed over the past three or four years that he doesn’t seem to fulfill requests the way he used to. I went 7 for 7 in Detroit ’09 but after that I’ve been batting .250 with the requests.
Don’t get me wrong I am still gonna support Bruce with whatever he does but I long for the good ol’ days of the magic from my favorite years of ’01 – ’05….thankfully there are so many recordings of those shows.
I just gotta try to evolve with him…maybe I can learn to appreciate bluegrass/folk music they way Bruce got me into jazz way back when.
By looking at what the top 5 songs from a ‘dream set list’ tells me that there must a lot of ‘casual’ fans that voted.
I mean you are almost guaranteed 4 or those songs at a show.
When I think of ‘dream’ picks it is deeper into the catalog. I mean yeah I probably picked one or two of those, can’t remember…but this is a dream set list and I am really surprised that the hits are picked.
Its kinda like asking a so-called ‘deadhead’ their dream songs to hear at a show and they name Truckin’, Casey Jones, Sugar Magnolia, and Touch Of Grey.Ditto on the SNL.
I can’t find it anywhere and I’ve been searching for years. Its not on Netflix as they don’t show the full SNL episodes.
There is a brief glimpse of the performance on the show Best of SNL 80’s its within the first 30 minutes.I met all the Noisemakers many times over the years I can honestly say that all of them are really nice and totally down to Earth…never had a bad experience.
Bruce actually knows who I am and can even spell my last name(for some reason)…which is weird because every time I meet him he will try and spell it and actually gets it right every time. He has an incredible memory and is one of my favorite celebrities to meet.
The only somewhat bad experience I may of had was that I paid for a ‘VIP meet & greet’ with Bruce & the Noisemakers and only Bruce, Bobby, and JV came over which sorta sucked because I expected all of them.
The whole ‘meet&greet’ thing was disorganized. They let all 15 of us bombard Bruce at the same time for like maybe 10 minutes and if you tried to talk to him some clown will cut you off for a picture and then another guy will cut him off for an autograph and it kept going until our time was up. Common sense would have lined us up and gave each of us our own time to go up to him for a picture/autograph and then a few words and then on to the next fan.
