A backwards show, anyone?

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  • FC28207
    FC28207 Posts: 75
    The secret to keeping a good spot depends…



    the adult diaper.  Piss yourself.  They are missing on a huge market.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,979
    It's asparagus season here. There will be no wetting ourselves til after.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,854
    At Newcastle 2006 they opened with Alive, and Corduroy started the second encore set 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,979
    ZoSoTim said:
    esaeleR
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,979
    10 show was kind of backwards to me with alive and evenflow up front.
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    Lost In Ohio said:
    eeriepadave said:
    mace1229 said:
    I'm always amazed at how many people can't make it a show without peeing.
    I basically get 1 chance to pee at work every day. Can easily go 4-5 hours. 
    maybe they're drinking a lot or have small bladders? But yeah i'm with you I can go to a show without peeing.


    It's gotta be the drinking.

    But that's also why the opening band exists. Get in early and do that stuff then.
    Reasons I pee during shows:
    • sometimes due to beer (drinking and getting another)
    • sometimes I have anxiety from large crowds and like a small sneak out
    • sometimes ya just have to go when ya have to go
    • sometimes I reach to myself, dear god...
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  • ZoSoTim
    ZoSoTim Posts: 1,332
    Loujoe said:
    ZoSoTim said:
    esaeleR
    Ereht did uoy tahw ekil I
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,322
    A show where they start with Yellow Ledbetter?


  • payling
    payling Seattle Posts: 412
    Lost In Ohio said:
    How many minds would blow if Mike opened a show with the opening notes to YLed? One show had RIFTW as an opener. We've had Crazy Mary and Baba O'Riley near the start.

    But not just a closer as an opener. Hear me out.

    Part of the challenge would definitely be to get the flow right.

    Yellow Ledbetter
    Baba O'Riley
    Alive
    Crown of Thorns
    Faithful
    Jeremy
    Lukin
    Red Mosquito
    Whipping
    Even Flow
    Buckle Up
    Wishlist
    Never Destination
    Porch
    -----
    River Cross
    Betterman on pump organ
    Black (ala that version with Boom.)
    Sirens
    Elderly Woman
    Footsteps
    Pendulum
    That's what I thought we were getting at Oakland night 1 05.12.22 when the lights were kept up and they opened w RIFTW
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,773
    I was thinking something totally different 
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,275
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 

    One song to the front and the rest to the back?

    Eddie: "We'll be right back. We gotta play one for the front!"
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,773
    Lost In Ohio said:
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 

    One song to the front and the rest to the back?

    Eddie: "We'll be right back. We gotta play one for the front!"
    No. Singing the songs backwards 
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  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,616
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 
    Boom on vocals? Stone on drums? Eddie on the B3?
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,979
    igotid88 said:
    Lost In Ohio said:
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 

    One song to the front and the rest to the back?

    Eddie: "We'll be right back. We gotta play one for the front!"
    No. Singing the songs backwards 
    There is a frank zappa song that is recorded backwards. I thought it was another language til I read the liner notes. Monty pythonesque. On 'them or us'. 
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,275
    mookieblalock said:
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 
    Boom on vocals? Stone on drums? Eddie on the B3?

    Obviously Eddie was the drummer in Citizen Dick, Stone and Jeff swap...there's all sorts of swapping in Gigaton...

    But didn't Eddie play drums for a real show way back when?
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,612
    Eddie is the new Foo drummer. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,979
    Lost In Ohio said:
    mookieblalock said:
    igotid88 said:
    I was thinking something totally different 
    Boom on vocals? Stone on drums? Eddie on the B3?

    Obviously Eddie was the drummer in Citizen Dick, Stone and Jeff swap...there's all sorts of swapping in Gigaton...

    But didn't Eddie play drums for a real show way back when?
    Played in Hoovercraft. Not sure if that counts.
  • thomascbullock
    thomascbullock Posts: 431
    Seeing Porch open a show would be pretty great just because you wouldn’t know what the rest of the night holds.
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    I don't know about "backwards," but I would love to see them mix things up a bit in terms of the most commonly played songs. Play "Alive" early in the set. Play "Even Flow" in the encore. Open with "Porch." That sort of thing. Usually, the first moment when I feel a letdown of excitement is when they kick into "Even Flow" at song 8-10 like clockwork. I feel like I'd enjoy it more at the end because the fact that I don't want the show to end might overcome my lack of desire to ever hear it played live again. And "Alive" in the encore has become very perfunctory. Maybe doing it early would get Ed to put more into it.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,063
    BF25394 said:
    I don't know about "backwards," but I would love to see them mix things up a bit in terms of the most commonly played songs. Play "Alive" early in the set. Play "Even Flow" in the encore. Open with "Porch." That sort of thing. Usually, the first moment when I feel a letdown of excitement is when they kick into "Even Flow" at song 8-10 like clockwork. I feel like I'd enjoy it more at the end because the fact that I don't want the show to end might overcome my lack of desire to ever hear it played live again. And "Alive" in the encore has become very perfunctory. Maybe doing it early would get Ed to put more into it.
    I've thought the same about Even Flow for a long while now. Think it would be killer as the last song of the set or last song before Yellow Ledbetter.

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