[kj] (OT) Love and Rockets Warm-Up Show Last Night

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

Nice review T.B.!
 
I am glad they are playing all the 80's stuff. 
 
I really think they lost it after the self titled album in 1989.
 
Cheers,
 
~ LB
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2008 10:18:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Partyslammer at socal.rr.com writes:

OK, so I  went to the sold out San Diego warm-up show at Canes last night.

Canes  is a very small club / bar right on the boardwalk of the beach in San  
Diego.  Probably holds maybe 150 - 200 people tops.  The floor  and the stage 
are about the same size so being at the back of the floor in  front of the 
soundboard is being about 6 people deep in the crowd.   The have a nice sound 
system although the band probably could have gotten  away with just the sound 
from the stage they were so loud and the place so  small.  Overall, great 
sound and it was like being in their living  room while they played.  The 
audience was very well behaved and I'd  say the asshole factor was a big 
zero.  Everyone knew who they were  seeing, what to expect and wanted to be 
there for the music and not to get  fucked up and be obnoxious.

Doors opened around 7:30 and by 8:30, the  place had filled up and right at 
9:30, the patient crowd was rewarded when  the band come out and opened with 
a tight version "Ball of  Confusion."  They played a very compact, no 
nonsense 80 minute set of  tracks almost all culled from their first three 
Beggars Banquet era albums  except for "No Big Deal" and the slow, druggy "I 
Feel Speed" which frankly  was the only real dead spot in the show.  "Dog 
End....." early in the  set got a huge response and it was a storming, great 
version with Ash's  guitar mixed dry and upfront, not drenched in reverb like 
the studio  track.  I can't say that on paper, I'd really like this setlist 
much  as some major favorites like "Bound For Hell," "Motorcycle" and "So 
Alive"  aren't being played not to mentioned any tracks from the 90's aren't  
included.  Still, as performed, especially with the band being so  tight 
already, it turned out to be excellent.

As musicians, all  three are still at the top of their game. Daniel Ash as 
always sounds  great on 12 string yet can rip out feedback and effects laden 
solos and  his long tour de force turn after switching from 12 string to 
electric mid  song on "Yin and Yang" was mind blowing.  Haskins is an 
incredibly  drummer as exemplified by the speed and power he had running 
through "An  America Dream."  David J (who's birthday was late night) sounded 
 
fluid and great as always on fretless bass and the often Beatlesesque  
harmonies between David and Danny were spot on all night.

The  encore was a straightforward cover of The Clash's "Should I Stay Or 
Should  I Go" that got the tiny crowd jumping and afterwards, the band looked 
very  happy and pleased with the audience and their own performance.

Really  glad I went.

Setlist in order:

Ball of Confusion
No Big  Deal
It Could Be Sunshine
Dog End of a Day Gone By
Haunted When The  Minutes Drag
No New Tale To Tell
I Feel Speed
An American  Dream
Holiday On The Moon
Kundalini Express
Mirror People
Yin And  Yang

*encore*
Should I Stay Or Should I Go

T.B.  





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