So here's the listing - it more or less follows the arc of the show (which is why "Soulshine" is on there). "Dead!" should actually be the second song, but it's too good of an opener. Thanks for everyone's help!!
Dead! - My Chemical Romance
Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
Sisters Of Mercy - Leonard Cohen
Shiny Things - Tom Waits
Crows (from The Vile Village) - The Gothic Archies
Walking With a Ghost - Tegan and Sara
Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt
Spiral (Acoustic Version) - Godsmack
The Ghost In You - The Psychedelic Furs
I Go Like The Raven - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Grey Ghost - Mike Doughty
A Murder Of One - Counting Crows
Apocalyptic Modified Blues - Corb Lund Band
Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six - Tom Waits
All You Ever Wanted - The Black Keys
Soulshine - Gov't Mule
I just occurred to me, but what about Don't Fear the Reaper?
I just occurred to me, but what about Don't Fear the Reaper?
Oh yeah, and there's a cool version by The Beautiful South (I think) already up at Buffistarawk.
We're going to see Kanye West tomorrow night!!! I'm excited even though it's a huge stadium show. I honestly can't remember the last time I attended one of those. We're seeing The Roots and Erykah Badu next Thursday, and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan sometime in June. It's a hip hop extravaganza up in here!
Oh yeah, and there's a cool version by The Beautiful South (I think) already up at Buffistarawk.
Interesting. I also can send the original if needed.
I also can send the original if needed.
Heh. I have 3 copies of the original, I think? Thanks, though!
Moody Blues can still rock out, man.
(Although I'll admit that, looking at the crowd, my first thought was one of Willow's in "Band Candy": "This is dangerous....they could have heart attacks!")
Greatest non-band-related moment in the lull before the encore, there were literally 2-3 lighters; and a SEA of cellphones, opended with their faces toward stage. Really kicked ass. Although not as much as as the Moody Blues did.
Moody Blues can still rock out, man.
I saw them 20+ years ago and they were...not that good. Granted, the fact that the opening act was Stevie Ray Vaughn might have had something to do with it. I think I was in the minority in even knowing who he was, but that was only because of his work on Bowie's Let's Dance album. He totally stole the show though. It was my second concert, and the first time I realized what just 3 musicians could do.
I tell you what, it was 90+ degrees and swamp-like humidity last night. The show was in an outdoor venue that's on the banks of the river, so when I say humidity, I'm not joking.
John Lodge started the show in leather pants; after about an hour, the band took a 20-minute break offstage (again, that heat and humidity is killer, so I can't blame them), and when he came back out, he had changed into non-leather pants and a different shirt.
I'm not overly familiar with the Moody Blues' body of work; I only really know the most popular ones, the ones that get played to death on the radio. Still, it was a good show. They tore it up on "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" and looked like they were having a hell of a lot of fun.
I always wonder if they get tired of playing "Knights in White Satin."
The crowd *loved* "Isn't Life Strange," which I had never really heard before (or didn't remember, if I had).
They did "Your Wildest Dreams," which was the first Moody Blues song I was aware of, back in the day, thanks to MTV (hey, in the 80s I was into Duran Duran and other bands who wore eyeliner).
Graeme Edge cracked me up; he came down from his drum kit for "Higher and Higher" and banged the hell out the tambourine and shook his ass for the crowd (like, turned his back to the audience so we could see his ass, and shook it like Mick Jagger).
Their only encore number was "Question" (of course), which the crowd really REALLY dug.
So I picked up the new Weezer red album.... I must say I really like the song Heart Songs, IMHO it's one of the best songs they have done.
