Tallahassee Show

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I just got back from the Tallahassee show and it was pretty awesome. I saw them here on FSU campus in 1988 and at The Moon here in ’92 with My Bloody Valentine and it was pretty awesome. I prefer the original line-up so this was a little better in my opinion.The crowd was kind of dead as is the case often in this town. I’m not sure if they were stunned from the volume or not.They seemed to get less inhibited as the night wore on.The two openers were okay. Priestess has an awesome drummer and let’s just say he knows it. I can’t remember the last time I saw a band that was in an opening slot eat up a bunch of their time with a drum solo. Still I thought it was pretty funny and the guys were tight.
Dead Meadow seem to take forever to set up and took a while to get into it after they started. They find and stick to it for what seems like an eternity. Great guitar solos, but it went on a little too long. They kind of lulled the audience into this psychedelic groove. The guitarist is good but seems bored with his own music. I have two of their records and like them but I’ve got to be in a certain mood as its murky psychedelic stuff.It was kind of ponderous after a while.
As for Dinosaur they put on a fun and energetic set. Lou especially seemed to be having a good time and was very gracious to the audience. Murph at times seemed a little tired, but that’s becuase he was giving it everything. He was sweating buckets up there, but his playing was still brilliant. I cannot remember the full setlist, but it doesn’t differ too much from some of the others I’ve seen except that they played "The Leper". They played "Lose" which was just insanely overpowering.The audience by the end had dwindled a little, but they came out for a couple of encores and then left the stage for what everybody thought was the last time. The house music went on and people started leaving. Then all of a sudden they came back out and started playing some weird jam/hardcore song that they stopped after a few bars. After that they played "the Wagon" which was notable for the fact that J got lost twice in the song. I would say they kind of butchered it tonight, but the audience went nuts anyway and I certainly didn’t care. They closed the show with "Chunks" which has always been one of my favorites of their’s even though they didn’t write it. I’m hoping someone else will post the setlist as my ears and brains are still fried friom the show. Overall they seemed to enjoy themselves.
What does shock me is that people still expect them to play later stuff. I like a lot of the later stuff too, but they were never the same after Lou left in my opinion. How the info that they’re only playing their first three albums worth of material is lost on people is beyond me.
I’m new as a poster but have been lurking this forum for at least a year now. I really enjoy reading everybody’s opinions on the band.

[prometheus]

heh i just got back from the same show and it was forking amazing. i really dont even know what to say. the highlight for me actualy was the "butchering" of "wagon". j did indeed mess up at the end but i doubt most of the audience even noticed and i certainly didnt care. regardless, i was amazed because i had previously read an article interviewing lou, before they played in orlando a few months ago, in which he said he would play "feel the pain" (really refering to any j song after he had left) if j would agree to play a sebadoh song (i dont have the article in front of me nor do i remember which sebadoh song he mentioned). so either way, to hear "wagon" was rather suprising. the big letdown however, was the fact that they didnt play any of this new material i hear of. a local paper interviewed murph and when questioned about supposed new material he said, "were working on it – there are some ideas weve been tossing around. we did some work before this last tour too.were going to take july to work hard on that…i want to try and do it…we might try some stuff at sound check – if it works well try it." (maybe ill transcribe this or scan it some other time). also the band was selling a new shirt with new artwork on it and a title "zombie worms." this really has to be a new single. im totaly forking excited. so i guess thats it. i thought the show was mind blowing and im considering driving up to georgia in a few days to see them again. they have much more chemistry now than they did a few months ago on the last tour. also the audience never seems to be into the show but that may be just a characteristic of the fanbase. that was my forth time seeing j and/or dinosaur since 2000ish and the audience never seems too excited. either way the old dinosaur unbelievably seems to be back in full swing. go see them on this tour. i never though id have the chance to see these guys play these 20 year old songs but here they are. ill have the audio and some pics up in a day or two. go see the show! oh yeah, priestess sounds like deep purple/skynyrd/zeppelin (with the bonham drum solo heh). they were pretty cool, i bought a cd. dead meadow was rather lackluster and didnt interest me much. but dinosaurs walk the earth once again! they opened with "tarpit" dammit! go see the show!

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Zombie Worm is a best of the 1st 3 Dinosaur Jr releases, released at the end of Feb ’06 in Japan…Zombie Worm info

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Heres the quote from that article you were talking about….

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And yes, the reunion shows will only feature tunes from Dinosaur’s first three albums. ("I’ll play ‘Feel the Pain’ if they play ‘Brand New Love,’" laughs Barlow.)

We have the article in our J Mascis news forum…Back from extinction-Orlando Weekly June 30 ’05

Thanks for the reviews & setlists…

[prometheus]

haha looks like you guys keep very good track of _everything_ around here. anyway, i just posted the audio from this tallahassee show that was so cool it ended up with two threads http://www.freakscene.net/forums/discussion/7876.0″>http://www.freakscene.net/forums/discussion/7876.0

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