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

[Karen Weil]

Wish I could have been there ... thanks for the details, though.

k..w.
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Subject: [kj] (OT) Love and Rockets Warm-Up Show Last Night



> 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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