.:: Ghost of the Robot in concerto ::.Sabato 24 Maggio 2003,"The Knitting Factory" Hollywood (CA) Report di raindog
Set List (in order best to our recollection): Liar Encore:
We headed up to the balcony to eat dinner before the show, and when the guys would walk across the stage to get an instrument (to take backstage to tune?), the audience below would just hoot and holler...well, on one occasion when James walked across the stage, Steve just happened to be upstairs too, and we caught him hooting and hollering along with the audience, he turned around, and in one of those unexpected moments of silence, when the background music is changing tunes...I was caught saying in a sing-song Sandra Bullockesque from Miss Congeniality--"You know you want him"--okay, Steve sooo was not suppose to hear that, but um, yeah he did...and the expression on his face was just priceless. (hugs to Steve ) Food arrived, we ate and see Kevin setting down the set lists by each
of the guys positions on stage. About 5 minutes later, the guys take
the stage and start rocking into the intro they do for "Liar".
James enters on-stage and the singing begins...gotta say, this is still one of my favorite songs. Next James introduces the guys, and then states "This is Goodbye" and promptly states they aren't going anywhere, that is the name of the next song. (Deja Vu of Chicago, as if anyone would leave after one song was played--NOT ;) ) "Over Now" was next, and this is just one dramatic song...the
words, the change up of the music/chords? during the song. I really
like this song, and am thankful i heard it for the first time in Chicago,
where when James donned his guitar, introduced the song, you could literally
have heard a pin drop. About here, I believe James' ear monitor quit working...not sure if
the sound man got it working again, but James was very smooth with the
vocals and notes. James introduced "Blocking Brainwaves", Charlie started the
chords of the song, James got ready to jump into singing, and Charlie
stopped. "Call 911" (another personal fav) just rocked and exploded (sorry for the pun). "Mad Brilliant" just rocked, as usual... From comments I hear, this next song is fastly becoming a new fav of
people~~ "David Letterman" just rolled on...i still love the mid-song guitar riffs in this one...many discussions have been started over which song has the best guitar riff (when we aren't discussing and making plans to make the World a better place to live in ;) ), and this one is hands down my #1 choice. About now, Charlie is gasping for water...and looks at James (who usually
has his bottle of liquid). James hands it over, Charlie takes a few
swigs, and then mimics that he is going to spit it back into the bottle,
OMG...the hijinks just do not stop with this guy, The guys rock-roll and rip into "German.Jewish" and "New Man 2000" (or whatever it's current name is). They leave the stage, and of course, everyone yells, hollers for more, so after quenching the rest of their thirst (as James demonstrated them drinking from the faucet) the guys play "Good Night Sweet Girl" (my other personal fav) and end the show with "Vehicles Shock Me". It was really cool, and kind of cute to see Kevin sing along with all the songs, even when he wasn't on microphone. As mentioned in other accounts, Steve did smile a lot more than he has at other shows, and even did some front stage posing...go Steve!! James was total "game-on" face and poses...was interesting to see the audience reaction and interaction to these. Not sure of the placement of when these interactions occurred...but here they are: I think it was during "Mad Brilliant" when Charlie just rocks out on his guitar, James started rocking and weaving along with him...was very cool to see that unity of lost in the music. During one of the songs, Aaron's drumstick went flying (forget to get him some "stickum" ;) ) and Steve to the rescue grabbed it, and played out the last few beats of the drums. Charlie at one point told the audience he wanted to see everyone "jumping, dancing, moving and ...stuff" afterwards we were like "stuff???" he better be careful what he asks for ;) Charlie also had a stretch/tennis type headband on...i think it was after all his romping about after "Katie" that he mentioned the headband was for the cardiovascular. Twice during the performance, James did comment how happy he was to be back in L.A. (We were glad to see them at the KF too, that place just seems to really meld for them). Last, but certainly not least, James did give a HUGE shout out to their
soundman...and said they'd follow him anywhere he was Rock-on...and take Europe by storm!! All in all, it was a great weekend with friends and fun and GotR.
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