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Went to the show last night it was great as usual.
I talked with Lou a little bit before the show and he was telling me that the guy who owns the company that makes those wolf shirs J likes is a fan of Dinosaur. He said the guy is making these Indian shirts with this Indian Chief with his arms raised to the sky and above him in the clouds are the faces of J, Lou, & Murph. On the bottom corner of the shirt where it would typically say Montana or something it says Dinosaur Jr. Lou said he can’t wait for them to come in. I’ll definately get one because they sound hillarious. He told me all of this because I was wearing a wolf shirt and my Dinosaur shoes. Lou said I looked very J esque. LOL
Anyway the setlist for the show was as follows (in no particular order)
Almost Ready
In a Jar
Back to Your Heart
This is All I Came to Do
Feel the Pain
Out There (this was the highlight for me all night, Awesome)
Little Fury Things
What if I Knew
Been There All the Time
Bulbs of Passion
Forget the Swan
Pick Me Up
Freak Scene
SludgefeastBefore the show I was able to talk to J for a minute. I asked him if Pick Me Up and Its Me were recorded in drop d tuning, he said he couldn’t remember. I took it as he really didn’t want to talk to me, how could you not remember? Anyways when he played Pick Me Up at the show he played it with a capo on the 5th fret! Man, I was way off! Oh well, looking forward to the show tonight. I’m going with my 11 year old son.
That’s funny. I’m sure J never uses alternate tunings.
I was there too. I think the band was a lot more tight than they were two years ago. Great show! The crowd went absolutely nuts during the encore.
Your set list order is close but Pick me Up was somewhere earlier. I’d say Back to Your Heart was also a highlight, J gets to play some mean guitar on that one. I do wish they played Tarpit, Lose, or Crumble like had at other shows.I had a good opportunity to go backstage after the show but it was foiled (long story).
"bob " wrote:That’s funny. I’m sure J never uses alternate tunings.I was there too. I think the band was a lot more tight than they were two years ago. Great show! The crowd went absolutely nuts during the encore.
Your set list order is close but Pick me Up was somewhere earlier. I’d say Back to Your Heart was also a highlight, J gets to play some mean guitar on that one. I do wish they played Tarpit, Lose, or Crumble like had at other shows.I had a good opportunity to go backstage after the show but it was foiled (long story).
Yeah I asked J if any other Dinosaur songs were in dropped d tuning, because I can’t remember any. Neither could he. But I swear if you play with the album on those songs there’s a drop d in there. Oh well.
Cant wait for the Indian shirt though.
"tonas " wrote:Before the show I was able to talk to J for a minute. I asked him if Pick Me Up and Its Me were recorded in drop d tuning, he said he couldn’t remember. I took it as he really didn’t want to talk to me, how could you not remember?IT’S ME is definitely drop D. He was fucking with you. Not only can you just hear it, but both he and Lou tuned to drop D for that one live in LA.
WHERE’D YOU GO is also drop D. He does it on occasion. Trying to remember others. I think BOBBIN off of FREE SO FREE is Drop D also.
Mike
Thanks for the setlist! Sweet setlist, too… My brother was there, his first Dino show in 20 years of fanhood! I haven’t been able to communicate with him about it yet, because he lives in Seattle and I live in Japan. Anyway, if anyone has the exact order, please post it. Knowing my brother, he had a good time, but can’t even remember what they played, let alone the order.
"tonas " wrote:Went to the show last night it was great as usual.I talked with Lou a little bit before the show and he was telling me that the guy who owns the company that makes those wolf shirs J likes is a fan of Dinosaur. He said the guy is making these Indian shirts with this Indian Chief with his arms raised to the sky and above him in the clouds are the faces of J, Lou, & Murph. On the bottom corner of the shirt where it would typically say Montana or something it says Dinosaur Jr. Lou said he can’t wait for them to come in. I’ll definately get one because they sound hillarious. He told me all of this because I was wearing a wolf shirt and my Dinosaur shoes. Lou said I looked very J esque. LOL
Anyway the setlist for the show was as follows (in no particular order)
Almost Ready
In a Jar
Back to Your Heart
This is All I Came to Do
Feel the Pain
Out There (this was the highlight for me all night, Awesome)
Little Fury Things
What if I Knew
Been There All the Time
Bulbs of Passion
Forget the Swan
Pick Me Up
Freak Scene
SludgefeastBefore the show I was able to talk to J for a minute. I asked him if Pick Me Up and Its Me were recorded in drop d tuning, he said he couldn’t remember. I took it as he really didn’t want to talk to me, how could you not remember? Anyways when he played Pick Me Up at the show he played it with a capo on the 5th fret! Man, I was way off! Oh well, looking forward to the show tonight. I’m going with my 11 year old son.
What are these Indian shirts you speak of?
"hertz32 " wrote:What are these Indian shirts you speak of?You know those crazy wolf shirts and Indian shirts J wears from time to time. Well I guess the guy who makes them is going to make a Dinosaur Jr one. Lou told me about them before the show. They aren’t out yet so I only know what Lou told me about them. He said the shirt has an Indian Chief with his hands raised up towards the sky, and in the clouds are the faces of J, Lou, & Murph. It sounds like a rad shirt, can’t wait till they come out.
"Rip Van Winkle " wrote:Hmm I got the idea for the indian shirt, but what are the wolf shirts, exactly?J wears wolf shirts like these too from time to time.
[img]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/tonas73/wolfspmnmt.jpg[/img]
"tonas " wrote:J wears wolf shirts like these too from time to time.[img]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/tonas73/wolfspmnmt.jpg[/img]
Ohh cool thanks, they look pretty badass.
Here’s my brother’s description of the Seattle show–his first Dino Jr. show, despite having been turned on to them big-time (by me!) back in ’87 when YLAOM came out:
"That was funny about the decibels, because it really wasn’t that loud to start with, but then I did feel a bit shellshocked by the time the show was out. One ear is still a little bit deaf. I did get some earplugs but it wasn’t loud enough to use them from where I was at. The way the Showbox is set up, if you’re close in front of the stage you don’t get blasted by the PA speakers. The sound is totally different up there; you’re catching Jay’s multiple Marshalls and the monitors more than you do the PA.
I was really interested that some of the best songs from the new stuff were sung by the bass player. That one "Back to Your Heart" for example. Plus there was an old one sung by him that I never knew about; thought it was all Jay.
Seems like the show started out kinda slow and quiet and got louder and better as it progressed. Jay’s guitar didn’t seem as inspired at the beginning. I would say they aren’t an extremely lively show act, but the music really rocked. Jay tends to get into the groove of a song and starts swinging his whole body and the guitar left and right like a mother cradling her baby. The crowd was totally in to it, even a large and pretty wild mosh pit erupted and stayed put till the end. 4 security guards pulled one guy out of the audience with various painful looking holds on him. Eyes all popped out, he looked like he was gone, a character out of a Freak Brothers comic or something. I really wasn’t expecting such a response to this band.
You know what’s weird, I don’t even think they sold out the show. A guy I went with bought his tickets that very evening. Strange. But their new album is so good, I’d be surprised if by the end of their tour they aren’t selling out everywhere."
He’s right about the sound at the showbox, if you stand up front you get more amps & monitors than PA. It was a good show, but I think the band and the crew would tell you that they were a little off. I hate that I notice it now. Talking with their soundman the next day he agreed.
The show may not have been sold out but that place was pretty packed, and the mosh was super roudy.
brief review of the showbox show, gotta love the responsible grown up ear plug deal…
Quote:Rockin’ the Foam PlugsDinosaur Jr. ripped their way through an hour-plus set, sending plenty of people running back into the showroom for encore "Freak Scene."
By Hannah Levin
It’s taken me years to become a responsible grown-up and begin wearing ear protection at shows. Despite the reality that my primary source of joy and income comes through my ears, I haven’t regularly exercised the trivial amount of self-discipline it takes to bust out the foam plugs before the amps get turned up to 11 (I swear there was one particular Iron Maiden show that did some real damage that’s entirely my fault). However, thanks to the aural assault provided by Dinosaur Jr. at the Showbox last Friday, I think I’m officially a convert to routine earplug use. As soon as the original lineup of bandleader J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph took the stage, it was painfully apparent that anyone not taking the proper precautions was just asking for a pair of shattered eardrums.
The recently reunited trio made their old-school fans very happy, throwing in plenty of tracks from the early SST days and generally executing their set with an intensity that belied the fact that it’s been 24 years since the band’s inception. They gave the crowd their money’s worth too, ripping their way through an hour-plus set and sending plenty of people running back into the showroom for encore "Freak Scene," the 1988 song many consider their defining moment.
"tonas " wrote:I talked with Lou a little bit before the show and he was telling me that the guy who owns the company that makes those wolf shirs J likes is a fan of Dinosaur. He said the guy is making these Indian shirts with this Indian Chief with his arms raised to the sky and above him in the clouds are the faces of J, Lou, & Murph. On the bottom corner of the shirt where it would typically say Montana or something it says Dinosaur Jr. Lou said he can’t wait for them to come in. I’ll definately get one because they sound hillarious. He told me all of this because I was wearing a wolf shirt and my Dinosaur shoes. Lou said I looked very J esque. LOLsounds interesting, theres a 1st Nations gift shop in the lobby of one of the Canadian hotels Dino is playing at, they have some wicked shirts that may interest a certain group. Kinda country based gear, theres a shirt in the window with an upside down guitar outlined in siver studs, a wolf tshirt & more stuff that would look scary if seen on the street, but kinda cool on a certain band…
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