The SM night there were so many people recording. Waiting to see those pop up somewhere. Ok so here is a review of shows. Now that i have some time.
Clumsy night was the best show I saw on this tour. I went to 6 of them. They were just so on that night. I got a few vids. Josh has them so hopefully he will be able to put something together for you guys..
Getting back to show. The Clumsy set sounded amazing.. Some highlights of that set.
Big Dumb Rocket just blew me away..
Raine holding on to the ending note in Story of 100 Aisles. Where he goes ANACIN. He held onto that lyric for a little longer. Got chills from it.
They dedicated Car Crash and the whole night performance of CLumsy set to Sol Fox..
The second set was even better. People sat throughout the set. From what I gather the first set audiences were sitting through while second set they got up. So hard to keep seated when you want to get up, but out of respect to others stayed seated till 2nd set. The audience around me was the nasty bunch of people I ever had to deal with. Complained and had sour pusses on their faces with arms folded when they has to stand. It is a ROCK CONCERT> That is what people do.
The second set surprisingly so actually had alot of songs from Burn Burn. Best version of Escape Artist done. First time I can remember Raine singing all of SOT, and A/L/S mixed with Naveed gave me chills. Dreamland made my night.. I love that song. I think one of the best songs Raine wrote. So uplifting and it always makes me smile.
We meet them going into the venue.. Got to talk to them for a few minutes so that was cool.
We went to have High Tea on Friday. . Afterwards we were looking around the hotel. There was a grandfather clock so I stopped to take a photo. I hear someone call my name and think to myself. Who the hell do I know that would be here? It was Duncan. LOL. They were staying in that hotel. Funny.. We spoke to him a bit and he showed us a photo of his kids. SO adorable. We walked back to venue..
2nd day we got to venue early. We heard some of the soundcheck from outside. They were doing a song off SM before doing Junkie. Then they started playing randome rock songs. First song was Radiohead's CREEP. Which sounded amazing .. Really they should do it in their show. They would of RH proud. Then they started doing AIC -Man In THe Box. Josh joked that maybe they were playing Rock Band cause we could not really understand why they be playing other people's song. Just having fun.. They did STP's Interstate Love SOng and Vaseline before coming out. We saw DUncan and Raine come out. We mentioned it to them. They told us just playing around on stage and Steve is a jukebox with stuff like that. LOL. after a few minutes they left. We saw Steve next and we said to him we hear you are a jukebox. He laughed. After afew minutes he got on the bus.. We grabbed a bit before heading back into venue.
The SM set to me sounded ok. Not great, not bad. It seem to lack something in a sense. The songs were good but after seeing the CLUMSY SET this one was the complete opposite. A few people were saying that it sounded like Raine's voice was giving out. He sounded the same to me as he did the night before.
Second part was better. The first 2-3 rows it seems like everyone there was either recording it or taking photos. This show did not sell out. Up untill about a week ago it was empty. They invited people to come down front. The whole first row( extreme right) and second row( where I was ) was empty. There were alot of empty seats so people moved down..
During IAH home Raine had to stop right before the chorus. The audience continued to sing. I think broke a string or something. After everything was fixed went back to singing song.. Probably best version of Naveed and Kids. BOth nights he came out to audience during AYD..
Overall it was a good closing.. I personally think they did a good job on this tour.. ON one hand sad to see it end. I really loved hearing the SM cd done live..
Forgot to say that AYS probably was the best version of that song I have heard ever..
OH yeah I asked Steve the question I put up on the 20 question thread. He told us he answered that one so they did get the questions and answered them..