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  • Brian Wilson – SET LIST – 7/16/2008

    Sunday, May 16th, 2010

    Originally posted 2008-07-16 21:48:46.

    By Chris Moore:

    Click here for the concert review!

    The set list for Brian Wilson’s 7/16/2008 “Greatest Hits” show at the Warner Theatre in downtown Torrington, CT. A review of this great show will follow, so check back here very soon!

    1.) Do It Again
    2.) Dance, Dance, Dance
    3.) Catch a Wave
    4.) Surfer Girl
    5.) In My Room
    6.) Hawaii
    7.) Don’t Worry, Baby
    8.) You’re So Good to Me
    9.) Then I Kissed Her
    10.) Drive-In
    11.) All Summer Long
    12.) When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
    13.) Add Some Music
    14.) Do You Wanna Dance?
    15.) That Lucky Old Sun track (“I’m goin’ home…”)
    16.) California Girls
    17.) Sloop John B
    18.) Wouldn’t It Be Nice
    19.) God Only Knows
    20.) Marcella
    21.) I Get Around
    22.) Good Vibrations

    ENCORE
    23.) Johnny B Goode
    24.) Help Me, Rhonda
    25.) Barbara Ann (Brian on bass)
    26.) Surfin’ USA (Brian on bass)
    27.) Fun, Fun, Fun

    ENCORE #2
    28.) TLOS track (“Southern California…”)

    The venue really was excellent, boasting great acoustics and atmosphere. More on that when I post my review, but this is what it looks like from the outside:

    Brian Wilson Live at the Warner Theatre! 7/16/2008

  • Bob Dylan SET LIST: MGM Grand, 8/15/2008

    Friday, August 15th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    Click HERE to read the CONCERT REVIEW!

    Well, I’m sitting in my car with no reasonable hopes of escaping the MGM Grand parking garage before Bob Dylan releases Chronicles, Vol. 3… (For those who are scratching their heads, I basically mean it’ll be a long time!)

    Thanks to the iPhone, there’s no better time to post tonight’s Bob Dylan set list!

    1. Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat

    2. The Times They Are A-Changin’

    3. Things Have Changed

    4. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

    5. Can’t Wait

    6. Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine

    7. High Water (For Charley Patton)

    8. Chimes of Freedom

    9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

    10. I Believe in You

    11. Honest with Me

    12. Just Like a Woman

    13. Til I Fell in Love with You

    14. Nettie Moore

    15. Thunder on the Mountain

    ENCORE:

    16. Like a Rolling Stone

    17. All Along the Watchtower

  • The Wallflowers Live – Foxwoods, April 25th, 2008 (Set List & Review) – Songwriters on Vacation

    Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

    Set List:

    1. Up From Under

    2. Three Marlenas – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    3. Here He Comes (Confessions of a Drunken Marionette)

    4. Letters from the Wasteland

    5. 6th Avenue Heartache – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    6. When You’re On Top

    7. Mourning Train

    8. Invisible City

    9. Sleepwalker – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    10. If You Never Got Sick – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    11. Closer to You

    12. How Good It Can Get – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    13. One Headlight – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    14. God Don’t Make Lonely Girls

    15. Everything I Need – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSIONS!

    16. How Far We’ve Come – FALSE START

    17. Josephine

    18. Empire in My Mind – Click HERE for the LAPTOP SESSION!

    19. Nearly Beloved

    By Chris Moore:

    The Wallflowers have long been one of my favorite bands. So, my first question as the curtains came up at Friday night’s Foxwoods concert was, where is Rami Jaffee? Aside from Jakob Dylan, he’s the only original Wallflower still with the band. Instead of the four-member crew I expected, there were only three — Dylan, bassist Greg Richling, and drummer Fred Eltringham. This set the tone for the night, as I was laughing and enjoying myself before they even played a song.

    Actually, the tone was set before the curtain even went up, as the pre-concert background music (usually played at a reduced volume) was turned up for an Edgar Jones song called “Oh Man That’s Some Shit.” This title refrain was repeated with intermittent additions such as, “Oh, yes it is!” When the song finished, it was played again. By the third time it was played, Jim, Mike, and I began to wonder if they were stalling for time. It was now 9:15, and the show was scheduled for 9 sharp. More likely, this was Dylan’s sense of humor showing through. The three of us couldn’t keep from laughing and singing along with the layered harmonies of Jones’ “Oh Man That’s Some Shit.” Even as I write this, I’m singing it in my head…

    Once I got over the initial shock of Jaffee’s absence, I was struck by the song selection. Opening with the Breach track “Up From Under,” continuing with “Three Marlenas,” and then playing “Here He Comes,” Dylan kicked off the show with three really great songs from three different albums. Still, he hadn’t quite rocked out yet…

    …which changed as soon as he tore into “Letters from the Wasteland.” For “Letters,” Dylan really seemed to get into it, putting emotion and a sense of foreboding into the performance.

    The highlights of the show for me were really when they played “When You’re On Top” — aside from changing the tune on the chorus, it was a great version and done acoustically to boot! — and the fact that they chose six tracks out of eighteen from the Red Letter Days album, one of my all-time favorite (and terribly underappreciated) albums. Other songs, such as “One Headlight” and “If You Never Got Sick” would have made the highlights, if not for Dylan forgetting the words and singing the first verses and chorus a bit oddly, respectively.

    This was how the show went — one exciting moment followed by an odd or off moment. For instance, Dylan forgot the words to several tracks, including all but the first line to “How Far We’ve Come.” The most disappointing aspect of the concert really was the fact that the band lacked a soloing musician. There was no lead guitarist and no keyboard player, so instrumental sections were filled with Dylan’s fingerpicking or Richling’s bass playing. Having a fourth musician on stage probably would have taken this concert to the next level and made it perhaps one of my favorite concerts ever.

    Actually, the most disappointing moment of the experience was learning from Fusco-Moore labelmate Jeff Copperthite that one of his friends at work had actually met Jakob Dylan! Not only did he meet him, but he met him before the concert while having dinner at the buffet… that we had been at an hour earlier! I’m also pretty sure I walked past Greg Richling while looking for a bathroom, but I wasn’t sure and just stood there staring at him until he was out of sight…

    In the end, I had a great time at this show. After their two-year absence from touring, I had begun to believe I would never see the Wallflowers in concert. But now I have seen them, and Dylan’s voice was in great form, the song selection was incredible (and even a bit surprising, considering previous years), and I won’t soon forget the experience. It was interesting to see Greg Richling, who has been a Wallflower since the days of “One Headlight,” and Fred Eltringham, who I was initially uncertain about, but who really warmed up and earned my respect over the hour and a half he was on stage.

    Back at home, I learned that Jaffee left the band late last year and is currently on the road with the Foo Fighters. What does this mean? I don’t mean to blow his exit from the band out of proportion, but it marks for me a new era for the Wallflowers. With new concert dates planned for the Wallflowers and the imminent release of Jakob Dylan’s solo album, Seeing Things, the future is promising.

    I suppose I’ll just have to be patient about the next Wallflowers album — whatever and whenever it will be…

Concert Reviews

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