Charlotte, NC - 10/10/2000
- Tremonts
By Christopher Hayes
- Eupone (sp?) is
just not for me. They had some great gee-tar work, but after awhile got pretty
repetitive though. The fact that it was all instrmental could have been really
cool, but it wasnt. I knew the touring bassist from last tour was this band
bassist, but also the guy who played keyboard/3rd guitar/backup vocals from
the last tour was too. But he left a lot, and then came back. Is the guy in
the band too, or was he just playing around? Pretty dull though.
- I saw a look of shock come across the audience during Pheurton - it sounded
like the majority knew what song it was from the beginning, but when the full
band kicked in, they didnt know what to think, they looked shocked! Needless
to say, the song rocked, and that pretty much set the stae for the rest of
the show.
- The setlist was the same from the previously posted ones, only slightly
jumbled. In fact, i think the only difference is that they played In Circles
towards the middle of the show instead before the encore. Maybe.
- The "Seven" chants were much more annoying at this show compared
to the Cats Cradle show earlier this summer. Maybe now that they have played
it, people will shut up! Although there was a cool little "Seven...8...song
9" chant towards the front.
- Before they played "In Circles" the keyboardist left and someone
to said "Let's have a smoke" in the crowd. Jeremy said that the
crowd could probably take the time to have one because *insert keyboard guys
name here* seemed to be taking his sweet time. It was strangely quiet as they
set up for the next song and someone yelled "Tell us a story". Jeremy
asked if anyone was here when they played their last show and said that at
that point he never though they would be a band again, but "Here we are".
And also said that they planned on being around alot longer this time, or
at least until he got mad and beat up Dan. The two of them then talked about
who would win in a fight, with a lot of flexing on Dan's part, and ended with
Jeremy saying that Dan would probably waste him pretty good. Funny stuff.
- After the show i went to the merch booth. Only a few things different -
the blue angel shirt is still the same, only i believe these have the new
tour dates on them. The red elephant shirt is a dark green shirt with a little
b&w pic of an elephant doing something... didnt look too closely. Also,
the had the Angel shirt as a long sleeve red, with just the bands name on
the back instead of the tour dates. All four studio albums were available
in vinyl and CD (last time they were in NC they only had How it feels and
rising tide) . The posters are the same too, only with the new dates, and
there is another poster on the back as well. I got a Rising Tide on Vinyl
and a Euphone shirt. I didnt really like the new elephant tee, and the Euphone
shirt was cool-lookin, so i got it.
Thats aboot it. Just randomly thinking, why does most everyone not like the
Rising Tide? I mean, those songs are just amazing in my opinion. It probably
ties with Diary as my fave SDRE album (LP2 is awesome too, its shortness length
wise probably keeps it from being #1). Refering to an earlier post, my apologies
for not remembering who it was right off hand, i can understand "Television"
not making someone cry, but songs like "The Ocean" and "Faes
in Disguise" are really beautiful too. Not that im arguing with anyones
tastes, i mean, you like what you like - but im just curious.
- c.h.