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Hi everybody, I have been in a funk all day, avoiding the computer and the reviews, because my concert jaunt is over and I'm afraid I may never see the mighty VH live again. Sure hope I'm wrong.
I knew I was going to be in trouble with the boards when I couldn't get tapatalk to connect once we were in Boston. No connection whatsoever at the Harp and I got connected twice in the garden, once to tell you no set list - then to try and tell you they played Hang 'em high and that went through about a half hour later. Fuckin links scooped us!
Started at the harp looking for TJVHOU812 and Chuckie Lee - no luck. Listened to Unchained for a while, thought of saying hi to Rick during a break, I met him at "Dave's 50th Birthday Bash" in NYC during the DDLR days, but Unchained did not TAKE a break.....oh well. My friend and I got a table and had dinner.
Then we decided since we didn't find anybody to go see Kool and the Gang. What a MISTAKE. God it sucked. Now to be fair, we had the ultimate of nosebleed seats and VH didn't sound great up there either - but I had no desire to get up and dance or do anything but go get more beer. My friend was more into it than I was.
So VH started and from what I could see Dave was spot on for most of the lyrics. I was preoccupied telling my friend what song they were playing and trying to see the screen around the huge wall of speakers that were in the way! The highlights were Dave's story about being 7 years old and taking dinner to his father at Mass General and his mother telling to play on the sidewalk with his sister. The people in the jail yelling down to him - Hey sugar, you're handsome, a good looking boy" and him asking who they were. His mom told him those were the ladies in the jail talking to him. Well, Dave says, later I was watching a documentary on the jail and those weren't no fucking ladies. He sure has a way with a story.
The end of Hot for Teacher was killer extended and Dave told Alex that he was amazing and that was the mother of all rock endings. I am getting the idea that Dave is kissing Al's ass on stage a little cause he also told him what a bad motherfucker he was after the Drum solo in Buffalo. hmmmm.
What else did I notice, lessee. Oh, and don't kill the messenger. The first two words of "Tattoo" are piped in. I know this because Dave was talking and they sprung the opening of the song on them early - and Ed and Wolf weren't even at their mics. Makes sense when you think about it, that was a multi note layered chord and 3 people really can't sing it anyway. Anyway, it doesn't mean that Wolf is not singing so don't knife me or anything. There were other places where you knew they were singing when the lyrics could have been piped in and they weren't. They nailed the middle of "Dance the night away" for instance. So much my friend commented on it. "That's not easy to do a cappella in the middle of a song."
I cannot comment on the quality of Hang 'em High. I was just so fucking excited to hear it that I spent most of the song trying to get Tapatalk to work, and it was really tough to hear up there at the ceiling anyway.
Eddie's solo contained almost ALL of cathedral which was very cool. My friend was very impressed by that too. I was almost crying by the time they hit ABTL and Jump - I couldn't believe my concert week went by so fast. So now I'll just stay around on the boards on concert nights with my beer and looking at play by play. And I can watch concert clips now and not worry it's going to spoiil anything. I have to go back and look at FUll Bug. I wouldn't look at it iin case they played it at any of my 3 shows.
I'm sitting here all bummed, hoping that I"ll get to see my DLR friends again someday. Buffalo was the ultra concert experience and I love these people so much.
I pray that they add Cleveland to the list and I will make the definite effort to get there in the summer time. Boy we just love Cleveland, go figure.
I knew I was going to be in trouble with the boards when I couldn't get tapatalk to connect once we were in Boston. No connection whatsoever at the Harp and I got connected twice in the garden, once to tell you no set list - then to try and tell you they played Hang 'em high and that went through about a half hour later. Fuckin links scooped us!
Started at the harp looking for TJVHOU812 and Chuckie Lee - no luck. Listened to Unchained for a while, thought of saying hi to Rick during a break, I met him at "Dave's 50th Birthday Bash" in NYC during the DDLR days, but Unchained did not TAKE a break.....oh well. My friend and I got a table and had dinner.
Then we decided since we didn't find anybody to go see Kool and the Gang. What a MISTAKE. God it sucked. Now to be fair, we had the ultimate of nosebleed seats and VH didn't sound great up there either - but I had no desire to get up and dance or do anything but go get more beer. My friend was more into it than I was.
So VH started and from what I could see Dave was spot on for most of the lyrics. I was preoccupied telling my friend what song they were playing and trying to see the screen around the huge wall of speakers that were in the way! The highlights were Dave's story about being 7 years old and taking dinner to his father at Mass General and his mother telling to play on the sidewalk with his sister. The people in the jail yelling down to him - Hey sugar, you're handsome, a good looking boy" and him asking who they were. His mom told him those were the ladies in the jail talking to him. Well, Dave says, later I was watching a documentary on the jail and those weren't no fucking ladies. He sure has a way with a story.
The end of Hot for Teacher was killer extended and Dave told Alex that he was amazing and that was the mother of all rock endings. I am getting the idea that Dave is kissing Al's ass on stage a little cause he also told him what a bad motherfucker he was after the Drum solo in Buffalo. hmmmm.
What else did I notice, lessee. Oh, and don't kill the messenger. The first two words of "Tattoo" are piped in. I know this because Dave was talking and they sprung the opening of the song on them early - and Ed and Wolf weren't even at their mics. Makes sense when you think about it, that was a multi note layered chord and 3 people really can't sing it anyway. Anyway, it doesn't mean that Wolf is not singing so don't knife me or anything. There were other places where you knew they were singing when the lyrics could have been piped in and they weren't. They nailed the middle of "Dance the night away" for instance. So much my friend commented on it. "That's not easy to do a cappella in the middle of a song."
I cannot comment on the quality of Hang 'em High. I was just so fucking excited to hear it that I spent most of the song trying to get Tapatalk to work, and it was really tough to hear up there at the ceiling anyway.
Eddie's solo contained almost ALL of cathedral which was very cool. My friend was very impressed by that too. I was almost crying by the time they hit ABTL and Jump - I couldn't believe my concert week went by so fast. So now I'll just stay around on the boards on concert nights with my beer and looking at play by play. And I can watch concert clips now and not worry it's going to spoiil anything. I have to go back and look at FUll Bug. I wouldn't look at it iin case they played it at any of my 3 shows.
I'm sitting here all bummed, hoping that I"ll get to see my DLR friends again someday. Buffalo was the ultra concert experience and I love these people so much.
I pray that they add Cleveland to the list and I will make the definite effort to get there in the summer time. Boy we just love Cleveland, go figure.
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