Harvard show review
Thomas Wallace Colthurst
For starters, I was lucky to even get into the show.
I had waited till Tuesday to buy my tickets, only to
find that They had sold out. I desperately posted pleas
to the local MIT newsgroups for tickets, but to no
avail. So my friend Mark and I went to Sanders Theater
an hour before the show to see if there would be any
scalpers. There weren't. Finally, fifteen minutes before
the show starts, this guy whose friends decided not to
come sells us two tickets for $16 each.
The show was well worth the wait. Brian Dewan was amusing
as always, and TMBG rocked. They finally seemed comfortable
with the live band, and as much as I hate to say this about
Harvard students, it was a great crowd. [I was the maniac
dancer in a light purple button-down shirt on the left side
right by the stage.] As previously reported, the "Ask
Security-A-Song" was Speak Softly Love, better known as the
Godfather Theme. Only the trumpet player seemed to know
how it went.
Mark had brought the cover to his TMBG CD and wanted to get
a signature, so we stayed after the show. While we were
waiting, a roadie crumpled up a set list left on the stage
and threw it out into the remaining crowd. I caught it.
[I had been keeping my own set list, which is copied at the
end of this message. The official set list was slightly
inaccurate and had Them playing "Where Your Eyes Don't Go"
instead of "Lucky Ball & Chain" and "Extra Savoir-Faire."]
After waiting about half an hour for the Johns, we decided
to give up and head home. Before leaving the Theater, Mark
decides to use restroom, so I hang in the lobby for a couple
of minutes. As I'm standing there, who should walk by but
MR. JOHN FLANSBURGH! He seems like he's in a rush, but kindly
agrees to an autograph -- a pretty cool autograph, too, with
a little guitar as the "o" in John.
When Mark returns and I tell him who he just missed, he is
seriously pissed.
-Thomas C
BRIAN DEWAN'S SET
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Papa's Gonna Buy Me
Bygone Days
Creatures from Outer Space
The Dreadful Story of How I Poked Out My Eye
Cowboy Outlaw
I Had a Horse
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wastepaper Basket Fire
Chain Letter
The Record
Haircuts Here
99 Cops
THEY MIGHT BE GIANT'S SET
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Dirtbike
The Guitar
Don't Let's Start
Thank You For Putting Me Back In My Snail Shell
The Sun is a Mass
I Palindrome I
Whistling in the Dark
Speak Softly Love (Godfather Theme)
Your Rascist Friend
Chesspiece Face
Sleeping in the Flowers
Actual Size
Unrelated Thing
Lucky Ball & Chain
Extra Savoir-Faire
The Statue Got Me High
Famous Polka
Istanbul
Purple Toupee
Twisting
Frankenstein
Dig My Grave
Particle Man
Birdhouse
Spy
Ellerol Elvish
*choke* NO Ana Ng?? As my friend KAne once said, "If God had a favorite
song, that would be it."
>> For the encore, they did Birdhouse in YOur soul, Istanbul
Did they do that really weird thing with the lights and high funny voices?
Angel
_______
Don't throw your body off a building.
Annette Cardwell
Well kids, it was a blast down at ole' Alumni Hall last night!
Brian Duwan opened, and I personally thought he was hysterical. The crowd was
rude to him at first (ignoring him, talking, etc), but eventually got into it.
Same happened to the Giants -- the crowd was pretty dead for a while. I'm
probably biased, but it WAS a predominantly Harvard crowd. Anyway, they
played a great show. All the standards were represented EXCEPT Ana Ng!!!
The Guitar, Don't Let Start, Twisting, Racist Friend, Statue Got me High,
etc. For the encore, they did Birdhouse in YOur soul, Istanbul
For "Stump the Band" time, they asked the security staff what was their mother's
favorite song when they were kids. One guy said it was the theme to Godfather.
They played it (they have a great trumpet player!!) and Linnell sang. It rocked.
They did a lot of new stuff from John Henry (coming out in August), and I really
thought it was more rockin' and very cool.
annette
jon milton
> Creatures from Outer Space (THE CREATURES)
> The Dreadful Story of How I Poked Out My Eye (MY EYE)
> Cowboy Outlaw
> I Had a Horse
> Big Rock Candy Mountain
> Wastepaper Basket Fire
> The Record
> Haircuts Here (CUT YOUR HAIR)
> 99 Cops
>
Not to be anal, but since I have Brian Dewan's album, I thought I'd write
in
the actual names of the songs he played in parenthesis.
J.M.
Michael A. Gelman
>For the encore, they did Birdhouse in YOur soul, Istanbul
Slight Correction: Particle Man, Birdhouse, and Spy.
JM2C
-Michael.
Chris Guilmartin
> >> For the encore, they did Birdhouse in YOur soul, Istanbul
As stated elsewhere- Particle Man, Birdhouse, then Spy, actually.
(As he introduced Spy JohnF apologized for not playing
something well known - what, he thinks we don't all have the ep?)
>Did they do that really weird thing with the lights and high funny voices?
No. They did something I had not seen before.
<spoilers>
Linnell "conducted" the band during Spy, waving his hand to signal the music
should stop and start. He eventually started doing this while pointing
to the audience, which joined in on cue. Audience participation was
a good way to end the show.
--
Chris Guilmartin
chr...@world.std.com
ch...@mtrac.com
The Purple Sage
: the actual names of the songs he played in parenthesis.
: > The Sun is a Mass
So you corrected Dewan's songs, but you neglected to correct this one -
shame on you! :)
More importantly, where'd you get the Brian Dewan album? I know his was
one of the EPs on the Hello list (which I unfortunately missed out on),
but I never was able to find the whole album.
Purp(le toupee?)