[kj] (OT) The Cult Live in SoCal

[Brendan]

Did Ian give out any cup cakes...?


> that footage of the cult looked really good,impressive sound,glad you had

> a

> good time,you sound on top of the world today t.b are you still high  ;=D

>

>   and although i am not an appreciator of the cults music,i still dont

> mind

> adding my 2 dollars worth concerning there overall presentation, btw

> thanks

> for posting.

>

> melinda   ps  are your ears ringing,and your eyes heavy today after that

> gig

> and the lack of sleep  [=)?     the trade marks of a good night befor  id

> say  ;-D !!!!

>

>

>>From: "T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>

>>Reply-To: "T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>,"A list about all things

>>Killing Joke (the band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

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>>Subject: [kj] (OT) The Cult Live in SoCal

>>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:31:52 -0700

>>

>>Caught The Cult Friday night in Anaheim at The Grove.  This is about the

>>10th or 11th time I've seen them since '85 during the "Love" tour.  I've

>>pretty much lost track how many times I've seen them.

>>

>>Really solid show, maybe a bit better overall than the last show I caught

>>which was last year's show in Los Angeles.  The venue holds around 1,900

>>people and it kind of reminds me of a small aircraft hanger that's been

>>built up to a theater club.  The place is on the corner of the parking

>> lot

>>for the Anaheim Stadium which happened to have the huge Christian Harvest

>>Festival going on tonight which Ian joked about a couple times during the

>>show ("They're having a religious show, we're having a pagan show").  It

>>was pretty cool running into people who I recognized and who recognized

>> me

>>from previous Cult shows going back to the '02 "Farewell" shows at The

>>Wiltern and last years show in LA.

>>

>>The audience was very well behaved, in fact perhaps a bit too well

>> behaved,

>>almost sedate at times even though it was standing general admission.  In

>>past shows with a less than responsive audience, I've seen Ian and even

>>Billy get a bit pissed off but they seemed to focus on delivering a top

>>notch performance and didn't try to aggressively rile up the audience.

>> The

>>sound was decent depending on where you were.  I spent the first half of

>>the show about 3 people back from the stage in the pit and Billy's guitar

>>was nice, up front and loud but Ian's vocals were tough to make out.  I

>>moved about halfway back during "Revolution" and Ian's vocals were much

>>more prominent in the mix.

>>

>>"Horse Nation" opened the show and the first 4 songs through "Electric

>>Ocean" just rocked. In fact, Electric Ocean along with a truly inspired

>>version of The Phoenix complete with acid-flashback guitar intro were

>>probably the highlights for me. It was also nice to get Spiritwalker" and

>>"Nirvana" early in that group of songs. New songs "Dirty Little Rock

>> Star"

>>and "I Assassin" sounded much more powerful than any of the various

>> YouTube

>>clips I've seen thus far.  The sorta acoustic version of "Revolution" is

>>excellent with Ian ad-libbing a lot of lyrics. Also nice was the one-two

>>punch of "In The Clouds" and "The Witch," which incidentally had the best

>>bass sound of any live version I've ever heard. This is probably the

>> first

>>show I've seen since '87 that they didn't include "Li'l Devil" in the

>> set,

>>which I honestly didn't mind losing (they played it Saturday night in Del

>>Mar and thankfully dropped "Wonderland" which has become stale).

>>

>>And of course, no Cult concert review would be complete without the Billy

>>report.  As anyone who's remotely familiar with The Cult knows, guitarist

>>Billy Duffy is probably one of the more tempremental players onstage and

>>seems to suffer more technical difficulties than anyone I've ever seen.

>>I'm happy to say he appeared to have a pretty good night as far as

>>equipment issues, the worst problems he seemed to have was occasionally

>>strongly gesturing at his side stage monitor guy to raise his wedge

>> monitor

>>levels a few times while he was playing.  He looked pretty pleased with

>>himself and the way the show unfolded.

>>

>>Overall, The Cult has always been one of the most reliable and

>> consistantly

>>good bands I've seen. In over 2 decades worth of shows, I've yet to catch

>> a

>>bad one.  BTW, someone already posted a live clip on YouTube from last

>>night. Here's "Rain."

>>

>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51IFq5Eh0g

>>

>>The setlist:

>>

>>Horse Nation

>>Nirvana

>>Spiritwalker

>>Electric Ocean

>>Fire Woman

>>In The Clouds

>>The Witch

>>Wonderland

>>Revolution (acoustic with Mike)

>>Edie (full band)

>>Rain

>>I Assassin (new song)

>>Phoenix (great extended guitar solo opening)

>>Rise

>>Wildflower

>>Love Removal Machine

>>   Encore:

>>Dirty Little Rockstar (new song)

>>Sanctuary

>>

>>T.B.

>>

>>

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