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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Raconteurs in Toronto tonight! Playing the Kool Haus, which is a pretty small venue - it should rock!

    I may post pics and a review tomorrow - pics only if I'm close enough since the camera I'm bringing kind of sucks : )
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    Red Lukin wrote:
    Raconteurs in Toronto tonight! Playing the Kool Haus, which is a pretty small venue - it should rock!

    I may post pics and a review tomorrow - pics only if I'm close enough since the camera I'm bringing kind of sucks : )

    Great! Any reviews from Boston? Anyone?
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    their new album is phenomenal! i hope jack decides to devote his full writing and commitment to this band and drops the white stripes

    cant wait to see them at lolla! they were great 2 years ago
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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    restlesssoul wrote:
    ya man, i felt i was witnessing something great when i saw the racs here in vancouver. i felt the magic. it was great. blue veins and carolina drama were my highlights. and yes, i feel jack is a legend already. hes the jimmy page of our time. just the whole vibe and what hes all about is a throwback to old days of rock.
    I'm seeing them in September here is Seattle, and I am SO JACKED UP about the show, it should be a blast
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  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    I saw them earlier this year in vancouver. Sweet show. Just got tickets for the next vancouver show and seattle. These shows should be awesome.
  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Holy shit, what an awesome show!

    I'm going to a lot of shows this summer, but I can't imagine many, if any, shows toping this one. All 4 (or 5) guys in the band are amazingly talented. Patrick Keeler is an amazing drummer..the guy must practice his rudiments hours daily - I could watch this guy play anything - he's just so fun and talented to watch. Jack and Brendan - what can you say; they just play so well together. Jack's vocals must have hit a hundred different pitches, and his guitar wow - he just raped it at times! Brendan's vocals really impressed me - this boy can sing. Both of those dudes look totally different from when I say them last - Benson looks like Robert Plant (his hair anyways), and Jack, well you can tell he's been living in the south : )

    I've been to a few shows recently where I haven't been too impressed with the crowd. Raconteurs fans were amazing. Fun to talk to, not snotty or rude..just easy going and there for one thing - to have fun!

    For those looking for a show to go to this summer - go see these guys, they rock!
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    restlesssoul wrote:
    they just announced ANOTHER effin vancouver date. sept 18th. lucky me.
    Yeah, they just announced 2 more shows here in September as well. The last show didn't even have tickets available, it was all sold out via pre-sale.
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  • The_Fixer
    The_Fixer Posts: 255
    I just saw them here in Montreal on wednesday night and it was an awesome show.

    Got to hang out with Brendan Benson & Jack Lawrence after the show and they were very chill dudes.

    We were talking about Bonnaroo and one of their roadies overheard me mention Pearl Jam. It turns out that he used to work for PJ for a few years and he had a bunch of stories including the Rockslide experience.

    Awesome night overall...

    Great warm up show before my road trip to Manchester.

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  • Im still here
    Im still here Posts: 826
    i cant wait to see Jack White at Bonnaroo

    i got 5 on the 5

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  • Tenacious B
    Tenacious B Posts: 77
    Racs are so great. Saw them this spring in Denver and it was incredible. Top Yourself was the surprise of the night. Great live treatment of that song. Really played up the midnight creep part of the song.

    No 5 on the 5 that night. I don't think they've been playing it much this tour (if at all). Not sure why.
  • this is not for you
    this is not for you Posts: 240
    haha yea, i saw the raconteurs in 06

    fucking amazing live such a great show

    they also did a cool bootleg of the same show you could buy straight after the gig...that was great


    seeing them again at reading fest....can just imagien it to be better than the last
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    just bought tickets for the show on TUESDAY night in Edinburgh!!!


    oh i'm so excited i could crush a poodle to death using my own tongue
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • TiaMija
    TiaMija Posts: 597
    Congratulations! Have a great time Tuesday. We want a report!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    TiaMija wrote:
    Congratulations! Have a great time Tuesday. We want a report!

    i'll try.. it'll probably just be the word 'awesome' typed in 37283752 times
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • release30
    release30 Posts: 2,051
    this is not for you wrote:
    haha yea, i saw the raconteurs in 06

    fucking amazing live such a great show

    they also did a cool bootleg of the same show you could buy straight after the gig...that was great


    seeing them again at reading fest....can just imagien it to be better than the last


    Any links out there to get that boot?
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    probably already been mentione dbut the raconteurs website has a series of official bootlegs that are available to listen to. (not buy... just listen to)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • UpSideDown
    UpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    poorgirl23 wrote:
    love love love the Racs live. i saw them in san francisco like six weeks ago and they were incredible. was five feet in front of jack. he's a madman and i love it. they've got such a great energy and they play so well together. love their interaction. jack's so brilliant with a guitar (seen the white stripes four times as well) that i just can't believe what i'm witnessing at times. and he's got a lot of cool little gadgets that he uses. i especially love the pull out distortion mic on the bottom of one of his guitars. it's on a retractable cord and when he let's it go it zips right back into the butt of the guitar.. heh, awesome. he absolutely killed on piano too. wasn't just about him though, all those boys are brilliant. it was truly great.

    they just announced a bunch more dates in the fall. looks like i'll be seeing them again, in seattle this time. would love to be able to afford the two nights in portland as well... so it goes.

    jack's good.......but i wouldn't put his music up to legendary status. I like his guitar effects, but the lyrics are only okay and the music doesn't seem to progress that much for me.

    Raconteurs/white stripes are both good, but haven't heard anything great from either bands.
  • allstar340
    allstar340 NYC Posts: 848
    Corey Erven wrote:
    jack's good.......but i wouldn't put his music up to legendary status. I like his guitar effects, but the lyrics are only okay and the music doesn't seem to progress that much for me.

    Raconteurs/white stripes are both good, but haven't heard anything great from either bands.
    listen to "The Switch and the Spur"
    Consolers of the Lonely is a fucking great album
    release30 wrote:
    Any links out there to get that boot?
    theres a npr thing on itunes (podcast) where you can download a whole raconteurs concert for free
    not that specific boot but it still works
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  • dunkman
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    listen to that website live stuff... greatness :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • UpSideDown
    UpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    allstar340 wrote:
    listen to "The Switch and the Spur"
    Consolers of the Lonely is a fucking great album

    I've had the album for a couple of months........it's good, but i wouldn't consider it great. I guess that is the same way I feel about Switch and the spur....its pretty good musically, decent singing, but then the part that starts repeating "any poor souls who trespass....." kinda ruins the song for me. At that point the song seems to lack what I could only call "musical maturity".

    Don't get me wrong, I like the Raconteurs, I jus't cant say anything they have done is great. Consolers of the Lonely does have a couple of rocking songs though.

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