Yeah, I was digging it, I have never seen J smile and laugh like that while playing………that was a priceless!
A reunited Schools/Spence fog w/Sweeny………Dinosaur Jr. were really really good as well. I will write more about the show later this evening if I have time……….I’ve used up my five minutes right now, got to run out the door.

I was sent this e-mail this morning………I was not familiar with that song but it is stuck in my head today.
I watched it just to learn the lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV-nEE300 TSYV-nEE300

If you watch the crowd in the above video…………the crowd in Athens was about 100 times more into it, hard to fathom
but believe it!!!!

Well, I wanted to take a moment to write about the show. I didn’t want to be bothered with writing down a set list, you know what they played, more or less. This was the first time I have seen the reunited band. They are tight, real tight, and the songs from Beyond sounded great. The sound level was nice, not too loud, I stuffed ear-plugs in at the half way point and then started to feel like Ariel from the Little Mermaid, stuck on the bottom of the ocean thinking if I could just make it to the surface I can hear a real live rock band I hate that feeling so I pulled out the plugs after two songs.

It was a real treat to see J play with Dave and Kyle for a few songs, and nice to have sweeny with them. When the "I trusted You" song started, at the like 45 second mark, I was thinking WTF is this, then I watched as they magically turned it into some sort of swirling mantra that after a few minutes became almost hypnotic. Then it was fun. I think they took something borderline silly and pushed it over the edge into sublime, I know people are still talking about it today. The Fleetwood Mac song was pretty good also. Sloan recorded the whole thing so perhaps y’all will be able to hear it someday.

Oh, I was standing next to some guitaretards, my new word, I couldn’t have made their dialog any funnier than it was, the one guy started in with, "I hope when it’s time for me to go, I die from having J’s stack fall on me" his buddy was like "yeah, that would be the way to go", then the other, "once I had a dream, I was on the beach and J was there with his Marshalls and his twin (what ever, some sort of music gear,I don’t really know but not a sibling) then the other guy, yeah, I had a dream once just like that. on and on the guitaretards went, much like the "I Trusted You" song, I thought "these two must be joking" but on and on it went… with dialog, that just became more and more absurd. So I spent some time tuning into these two.

Dinosaur Jr were great, like brain surgeons who have done "hundreds of these" they rocked well, like a well oiled machine.
They are all very skilled musicians that’s easy to see and it’s still amazing to me that such a sound can come from a trio.

Then as Dinosaur Jr were playing I found myself looking at each member and watching to see which chakra point on the body is carrying the load (I did a little workshop in that sort of think not too long ago) my dialog is now sounding as absurd as the guitaretards, I must continue and say, It was great to see Murph plays from the "heart", he really does. I saw J and Lou playing from the second and third chakra, which is a little more grounded than the heart chakra but a little less relaxed, anyway, then I was drawn to look at J’s pockets and I had never paid much attention before, but I started thinking to myself "What the hell is he carrying in there" I was cracking up with the friend that I came with, we were trying to guess "what’s in J’s pockets" my choices were "The Holy Bible" in one and one of those fold up, blow up camping style mattresses in the other. My other idea was perhaps it’s provisions, in case of an emergency, like what happened in New Orleans. You know he has like granola bars and bottled water in one and maybe a small first aid kit and a flashlight in the other. As stupid as all of this sounds, the brother looks to have about 6 pounds of stuff in his pockets.

I was home on the couch in front of a fire at 1:30 am a full two hours earlier than the last time I saw J with the Fog and Thank God for that because the sun came up at it’s usual time and the Dad in this house does not get up and get kids ready for school. I drifted off to sleep, on the couch, because almost all of the children were with their Daddy in a puppy dog pile in our bed. I remember one of the last thoughts I had before going under, was perhaps J has baby Rory asleep in his pockets, like a kangaroo. Soooo……….a good Freakscene contest for the future…………could be answering the question, other than a wallet and a few guitar picks, what could he possible be hauling around.

Oh, photographs here http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingReg.jsp?Uc=s77866b.6phauwxz&Uy=-ec2zoj&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=444325238740_638078706503″>http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandin … 8078706503
that’s the back of me, in the third shot from the right, I’m the only one with long hair standing behind the guy in the black leather jacket……..just to give you an idea of where I was. Enjoy the photos, I hope the link works. Peace Y’all. S.

Barbecue Pants (feat. J on guitar) mp3’s are here:

http://www.southernshelter.com/”>http://www.southernshelter.com/

flac’s of the show are here:

http://digitalpanic.org/bittorrent/showthread.php?t=18649″>http://digitalpanic.org/bittorrent/show … hp?t=18649

(you’ll need to register)

Hopefully Sloan will seed the Dinosaur set as well…

In case you missed the link from Sloans page the deadly design guy has some great shots here:

http://www.deadlydesigns.com/photos/?gallery=2007/2007-12-03″>http://www.deadlydesigns.com/photos/?ga … 2007-12-03

Thanks for the comments & pictures, Stefka.

Yeah, Thanks Mike for taking the time to shoot and post…………Daniel P. sent me his shots the next morning but said yours would be better……….I like them all…..

VIDEO of BBQ pants……..I don’t know if there will be any Dino Video, I don’t know what the "rules" were, you know with that.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5902589136004097897&q=BBQ+Pants&total=33&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=2″>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … &plindex=2