Just got to the end of the long-ass line. Mad humi
By Eric | July 30, 2009 12:00 am
Just got to the end of the long-ass line. Mad humid out here, gonna be worse inside!
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Working @ Fairgrounds for the day, then I can just
By Eric | July 30, 2009 12:00 am
Working @ Fairgrounds for the day, then I can just walk across the parking lot to see @kseofficial and @philthatremains tear it up!
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07/25/2009 The Tragically Hip (Rochester, NY @ The Highland Bowl)
By Eric | July 27, 2009 9:30 pm
The Hip in my very own backyard. Almost literally, as the Highland Bowl is almost like having the band play in your yard with 3500 of your closest friends! I had raced over to Tom’s place just in time to catch the van-cab with the crew (saved me from trying to find a parking spot!) and we waited a whole 5 minutes in line I think before getting in. We got about five rows back from the barrier, laughing and joking with the people around us. Good people around us too. Right around the 7 o’clock hour, the Hip came out to the strains of The Depression Suite. The fans were into it from the get-go, but soon after the start of the show, we got to find out who was *really* into it. Why? The rain! It had been forecast, but it held off for the first six songs or so. As New Orleans Is Sinking got going, so did the rain. By the time that had ended and It’s A Good Life… started, we were in a full-on torrential downpour. (Check the videos below!) Which mattered not to neither the die-hards down front (we were standing in four inches of water the whole night) nor the band, especially Gordie, who came out into the rain with his guitar to essentially join us. He commented on the weather throughout the night, in fact, and I think drawing some inspiration from it. This was followed by a WATS song that I didn’t hear at Artpark, The Exact Feeling. The rain did nothing to curtail the volume of the singing along during Meridian and Love Is A First, which closed out the first set. By this time, the rain had pretty much subsided, so we just got to stand soaked for the rest of the show. I don’t think anyone really cared at that point.
Twist My Arm
New Orleans Is Sinking
It’s A Good Life… Part 1
It’s A Good Life… Part 2
Another shot of It’s a good Life…
100th Meridian
The boys came back out, and I got to see a song that in my previous 7 shows I hadn’t seen; Thompson Girl! And acoustically! Other highlights of set #2 were hearing Gus again, as I’d seen it on the IBE tour and not since, and also Courage, simply because it’s a favorite of mine. “If you gotta go, you go now, or else you have to stay all night”, Gordie reminded us at one point, and stay most of us did. We’d wormed our way down to two or three rows back from the barrier due to people leaving, and the view was fantastic. With rare exception, the crowd around us was fantastic as well. To say nothing of the band. The encore was almost the same as my Saturday Artpark show, with Struggle and Little Bones.
Wheat Kings
The Last Recluse
Now The Struggle Has a Name
Little Bones
It’s been said elsewhere that the setlist on this night was nothing to write home about, and save for Thompson Girl (personally), they’d be right, but this night was not about the setlist, and way more about the fans, the band, and the elements. And how they all came together to transform an already great Hip show into something even better. A shared experience, and a show where years from now, you can look back and say, “I was there for that!”
I only took one picture before my phone got wet:
But flickr user literarymind has a few good ones!
First Set
01: The Depression Suite
02: In View
03: Giftshop
04: Ahead By A Century
05: Twist My Arm
06: Morning Moon
07: New Orleans Is Sinking
08: It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken
09: The Exact Feeling
10: At The 100th Meridian
11: Love Is A First
Second Set
01: Thompson Girl (Acoustic)
02: Coffee Girl (Acoustic)
03: Wheat Kings (Acoustic)
04: Spring Time In Vienna (?)
05: Bobcaygeon
06: Nautical Disaster
07: Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
08: The Last Recluse
09: Courage
10: Frozen In My Tracks
11: My Music At Work
12: Blow At High Dough
Encore
13: Now The Struggle Has A Name
14: Little Bones
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Hip show = awesome. Damp iPhone = not so awesome.
By Eric | July 26, 2009 12:00 am
Hip show = awesome. Damp iPhone = not so awesome. Hoping the bag-of-rice trick works, as I have the red light / dim display thing going on.
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Anticipating The Hip! (and the rain probably) htt
By Eric | July 25, 2009 12:00 am
Anticipating The Hip! (and the rain probably) http://twitpic.com/bmj3w
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Just got my tickets for the Syracuse Tragically Hi
By Eric | July 25, 2009 12:00 am
Just got my tickets for the Syracuse Tragically Hip show in November. And I get to see them tonight in Rochester!
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07/22/2009 Thriving Ivory, The Stars of Track and Field, Pilot Speed, Streamline (Rochester, NY @ The Club at Water Street)
By Eric | July 23, 2009 10:50 am
I agreed to hit up this show because Christina didn’t have anyone else to go with, and Tiff was playing volleyball on this night. I say agreed because I probably wouldn’t have given this show a second thought on my own. Indie Pop/Rock isn’t really my cup of tea, but a show is a show, plus it was a chance to hang out. We walked in as Streamline was finishing their 2nd to last song, so while we didn’t catch much, what we did hear sounded pretty good. I’m a sucker for organ in a song too, so that helped their cause. I’d say there were about 150-200 people there, and damn was it muggy inside. The upstairs portion was even worse, which is where we ended up for Pilot Speed, who was up next. To me it was the typical jangly, whiny type of indie pop that isn’t terrible, but bores me to death. There was a song or two where the lead singer would really belt it out, and that was kinda cool, but overall, eh. We came back downstairs for the 3rd band on, The Stars of Track and Field, who had two guitarist/singers and a drummer, but a laptop for a bass player (and simulated claps). I thought these guys were a little better than Pilot Speed, but one of the guys behind us summed it up best by saying “They sound like a band that would play a bar scene on an episode of Friends…”. Generic maybe? Having said all that, I’ve seen far worse bands than the first three, so it certainly wasn’t all bad.
The headliners, and the band Christina came to see, were Thriving Ivory. Easily the most polished and tight of the four bands, they were fun to watch. There were a sizable number of people in the crowd that knew the songs, so they had the crowd interaction thing going for them too. The band also looked to be enjoying themselves up on stage, in contrast to the first two bands where I thought they were trying to look disaffected. After a bunch of their own songs, Thriving Ivory busted out a cover of U2’s “Mysterious Ways” that was pretty decent, and in the middle of one of their other songs, did a little insert of the Beatles’ “Let It Be”. They closed with their most familiar song, “Angels On The Moon”, which garnered a big crowd response. All in all, a decent show, a fun night, albeit a warm one. It’s a rare thing for me to go to a concert and know nothing about any of the bands I’m going to see, so I was really trying to be open minded about the whole thing and just appreciate what was going on without any expectations. I tried. I still don’t care for most indie pop/rock 🙂
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Checking out Thriving Ivory and others at Water St
By Eric | July 22, 2009 12:00 am
Checking out Thriving Ivory and others at Water Street with Christina. This isn’t quite my scene, but live music is live music!
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Getting ready to watch @5temm hit the stage!
By Eric | July 19, 2009 12:00 am
Getting ready to watch @5temm hit the stage!
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Started out at Montage, walked to Abilene, got pic
By Eric | July 19, 2009 12:00 am
Started out at Montage, walked to Abilene, got picked up by Pat and Jodi, led them to Tap&Mallet, had a beer, now back at Montage! RAWK! m/
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