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

LONESTYLE at aol.com LONESTYLE at aol.com
Fri Apr 25 13:24:42 EDT 2008


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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