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I loved Chautauqua a few years ago but I don’t expect a Bruce/Sonny opening act (OK I got my email blast at last, but still… how much do you want without a little help from the band?)- despite any other combination being possible. Meanwhile, a day later after the presale offered me a seat on row N, at the Frederick Brown Jr. website selling via ticketalternative, I found single seats available on row A (right behind the noisy $600 table folks) and E, so my advice is don’t get screwed by the “presales” from Crowdsurge!
I’m with you on the Weir’d continuously variable pitch warbling. My own kryptonite is “jazz clapping” by an audience during the music. I made a last minute decision to go down “up”town in Charlotte to the newish Knight Theatre to see Pat Metheny’s Unity Band. I guess it’s been thirty years since I listened to PM, and in this show he went from solo (opening with a dual neck harp/guitar) to four to five on stage to duets with everyone. Also, the second band set and one of the encores used five robotic pods – two that looked like antique kitchen cabinets that contained what looked like jars and maybe whistles?; two metal frames each with a cymbal, one with a drum and some bells, the other (or both) with a small vibe; and a huge vibe/xylophone table that looked like an olympic sized foosball table. All of these gadgets appeared to play via computer control without any kind of syncing from the musicians. Very Disneylike but perfectly integrated with the band and fun to watch hammers moving and lights flashing on each note from the cabinets. Pat said they had just missed a couple shows due to weather (for the first time in 40 years he could remember), and we got treated to a two and a half hour show with two band encores and a solo finale. As for where Bruce could fit into this I can only see him as a guest player and definitely with guys that are more fusion than traditional in any way.
Must admit I’m too lazy to give accurate feedback on production (all generally good) and collaborations (not an authority on the Range or the “solo” albums), but I can at least give tracks a relative ranking.
Glad you got to VA and although I’m not a fan of Big Stick and repeated assaults of Prairie Dogs, it sounds like an interesting show with Bobby Hornsby and glad you caught King Of The Hill. There have been so many songs neglected (Night On The Town has some great piano) lately but it’s partly making room for the new, and just not keeping the band together enough to repeat cool stuff from previous tours. We’ve been pretty lucky not to have a show cancelled by weather; hoping for some theater shows before I give up hearing the Changes or Long Tall Cool One ever again.
Fear not, gentle viewers, I found the list crumpled on the floor, WWL, Rainbow’s, Down With That>?, Mandolin Rain(grand tour?), Funhouse>He’s Gone,Defenders, Good Life, Valley Road, PDT, Way It Is, Big Stick, Dreaded Spoon, Cluck Ol Hen, Jacob’s Ladder>Cartoons&Candy, Fortunate Son
Two nice small/medium outdoor venues, “usual” 4PM soundcheck in Wilmington, stood at gate no more than 100 yards away with ONE guy waiting to pick up tickets and a few parked on the road; 5PM in Raleigh at museum closing time, sat at table not more than 200 yards away . Never Leave The (public access around the) Venue! These were just close to open spaces.
Nice version at Raleigh soundcheck, lots of new, pretty sckbstd stuff here and Wilmington, where they also did King Of The Hill while only a half dozen locals were within earshot. Merch girl in Wilmington also had a pet prairie dog named Chip, but he died.
Will be glad to attend, although this place looks like it was built after the ninth ring of Atlanta!
No dancing on smallest stage I’ve ever seen with bh+nm. A couple of women started up a ramp to the Denver stage but then ended up short of the destination. Naturally I put usual foot in mouth by asking stranger beside me if she wanted to dance on stage to which she replied something like that’s what she did for a living…reminds me of the vibe I got at the (too tall stage) Myrtle Beach House of Blues. Our tiny VIP deck was close enough to Bruce that with Lizzie’s help got my Cyclone request played (It was actually multiple choice and not the well-scribed version I used in Denver).
PHRoberts, post: 8724 wrote:I just noticed this on Facebook! I’ve never been to the Orange Peel – but how bad could it be? It’s going to be hard to beat the Biltmo’ in 2009 though…Have you been there before? If you were only going to go to one show, would you pick the Botanical gardens in ATL or Orange Peel?
Heath
I just saw John McLaughlin at the Peel (big crowd but not capacity=1050) last night, and after a cloudy 80ish afternoon and a little rain, it was still WARM inside, which is mostly cooled by fans (yep, this is the 21st century). Since I hate standing close to more hot people I hung out a bit in the exit breezeway which was much cooler and still has a long range view and good sound, but if you are not like me and have normal expectations for a concert, I would say ice yourself down for an August night. Fortunately, I don’t need to be anywhere near the stage to run on bh+nm power!
I guess I heard Look Out Any Window on the radio since I was living back in the woods with no MTV. Of course, since 2002 (procrastinated a while before seeing Bruce live!) The Road Not Taken has beeen one of my favorites. I caught a few Dead shows before Bruce around then, including a quick flight to Philly with a stay in a Camden NJ motel where I saw a room full of guys with Uzis or MAC-whatevers. I didn’t look them in the eye and I was hoping they were undercover cops or just gun dealers!
Will be sure to look for you and all the noisetravelers. I bought a GA ticket before noon when they were supposed to go on sale, and just did a walk-through while visiting, unfortunately on Monday when the museum is closed. The seating being most of a semicircle will leave a lot of side views, but it’s a nice setting (shade trees back in the lawn and a pond behind) with a very wide stage. I will be sure NOT to yell at Chuck Keith’s back like I did so rudely on that cold night in Hampden-Sydney! Thanks for thinking of me.
bh+nm have been outed by the Grand Targhee Festival July 19-21, tickets onsale, but schedule not yet announced. Most places to stay are outside my $comfort zone, but if you don’t mind a Motel 6 or the Teton Mtn View RV park/lodge (no cable TV) you can still get more than a tent over your head cheap.
Too bad, although it’s the center position that they haven’t figured out this year from my brief observation. Thanks for the update.
NC to northern CA and OR is a piddling 3000 miles but I drove 8500 on a three week tour in 2005. I went through about half a dozen national parks and saw the Noisemakers five of six shows in a row starting in Saratoga CA and ending in Salt Lake City. Skipped Seattle and had standing room only at a field covered by blankets at dawn in Roseburg OR. I totally forgot that I had a cousin in Redding CA where the second show played. Last year I forgot I was going to stop at the Antique Archaeology store outside Cedar Rapids on my way back from Des Moines, but these things happen to the road weary sometimes. I hate crossing the country (all the way to Reno) only to find something closed that I’ve missed multiple times like the NV Railroad Museum or the Black Hole of Los Alamos surplus store, or MacDonald Observatory surrounded by wildfires while I was passing through with too many miles to go.
Come on, I know you all have stories too,
you don’t have to match my odometer – I
used to be a professional driver…Dang, I think I gave one away to a coffee/piano bar in Myrtle Beach (“The Library”) that closed, and a different one to my brother in NY. Never even went for piano night!
That one I got on a cassette tape from a great neighbor of mine (DAT or analog from soundboard?), and I just restored many a db using Sony Sound Forge; I will burn you that show if you PM me a mailing address.
I got hooked by Hot House Ball my first show at Biltmo’ ’02. Some shows with Try Anything Once are Red Butte Gardens SLC, UT 7/11/02; South Shore Music Circus Cohasset, MA 7/25/02; Wolf Trap Vienna, VA 7/29/02(with ITALTLITA Train To Cry); Chastain Park Atlanta, GA 8/03/02 all were sold by munckmusic on Bruce’s site. Can’t believe they played a Dead set at All Good Festival.
I enjoyed a couple of tunes from the Harvest Festival, but my impression of the crowd noise left me
sadly certain that Canadians are now as stupid and rude at concerts as any North American could ever
hope to be, so I hope there will be more indoor shows where only half the crowd will annoy me taking
photos and video in relative quiet.It was so rewarding to hear Bruce admit he was eating in his car at “Taco Hell” when a working lady knocked on his car window … so details of “Sad Moon” were factual inspiration! Also, I greatly enjoy the awesome independent dexterity of “Night On The Town” live.
I think you’re close, GG. I’d even say that a festival or last minute college booking might have a 2% die-hard showing at best. I’m sure there is a fractal approximation for the bh+nm variables.
I hope you both make it – If I can’t find a free meter on the street (there used to be a few on Tryon, or a block south of the venue (College St around 6th-7th?) but I don’t visit “uptown” generally) I see you can get a $5 checkout from the box office for the three “approved” parking decks. I got an obstructed seat for about half price that looked like it was on the better side of a column.
Sorry I missed you. My mind can’t replay it, but It must have been squeezed into Valley Road (you’ll remember Bruce’s comment about doing that a new way on dulcimer). Tampa was my first Moyes show and the one I’ll remember for getting home to the remains of a break-in (unsolved but insured) and celebrating New Years Eve with the police and boarding up a smashed glass door.
I’ve only been to band shows since June. I thought about drawing a meat grinder eating a dulcimer, but “P Dog” is my only dislike. This reminds me to mention Moyes dropping a spoon that Bruce picked up during the washboard solo at Harrah’s – now that’s a rare stat, like Bruce wearing his super thick “Telluride (he said)” flannel shirt at H-S, where it was pretty cool. Also, I was surprised (not that I haven’t heard many OTHER screw-ups) that Bruce said he would probably screw up the lyrics to Cyclone since he didn’t write them, and then he proceeded to do just that, with lines repeating that shouldn’t have. I have failed to get “Place Under The Sun” played many times, even with some tiny lyrics attached to my latest effort that was about 12X14″ with rounded corners marked with the four suits. I also wonder if Bruce keeps “Pastures Of Plenty” as a memory of RS. I’d settle for the story behind the girl who “thought she was losing her mind”.
