LOCATION: Bogart's, Cincinnati, OH

LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Jack, Chris Donohue, Dale Baker

REVIEW BY: Dan Temmesfeld, Bruce Lachey

Article in Cincinnati Enquirer

Rev: OtR - bogarts.
  thurs, march 22rd/th/nd.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  fabulous set.  mostest funnest for a while.
  loved it.  totally.  echo megan & bink's revs.
  set.  order not particular.
     the world can wait.
     if nothing else.
     fairpoint diary.
        no toy.  no piano.
     i radioheadven.
     birds.
        holy crap.  loved it.
     don't be bothered.  don't be, i said.
        well done.  differentish.
     something that (apparently) (isn't) goodbye.
        but i'm not so sure.  or am i?
     sleep baby jane.
        it wasn't my idea.  it was karin's first.
     my love is a fever.
        by firelight... hush.
     all i need is e.
       "crank the 'e' and let's begin."
       (name that tune?) .5000 dollars if right.
     faithfully dangerous.
     give me strength.  wild banshee mix.
        aka album version.  not acoustic.
     moth.  jesus was surprised.
     when i go.
     anywhere but down.  name might be wrong.
     the body is an escalator of skin.
        escalator temporarily stairs.
     little blue river/4 score & 7 yrs.
     latter days.
  like i said.  awesome show.  best in yrs.
  they changed their setlist.  they had fun.
  standy bogart's or not.  it rocked.
  did they do whatever you say?  bruce?  they
  didn't do whatever i say, did they do whatever
  you say?
  i still miss terri.  brokenheart.
  moth and e, mainly.
  (:::|::|:::)  might fix it.  temporarily.
  jakc rocks.  jack does too.
  linford sticks up for him.
  karin is beaut.  always.
  chris and dale, cool mofreekas.

Helluva show last night.  I was proud to be an Over the Rhine fan.  Sounds
corny I guess.  Dan hit the setlist pretty good, except for the order.
Birds live was better than soup on a stick.  Same with FD2 (Faithfully
Dangerous) and My Love is a MF Fever.
I thought Karin looked a little WalMart-y, but I always look twenty times
worse so who am I to say anything (at all).
Dan's review is so in-jokey, if you gleaned anything from it then you're
A-OK by me.
My only real show disappointment was the amount of pre-recorded or sequenced
stuff that was used.  Give Me Strength used all of the backing tracks from
the album version, and even what sounded like Karin's lead in vocals seemed
augmented by piped-in stuff (the oohs).  I'd rather have an acoustic version
anyday.  haha, just kidding!
It was great seeing everyone (obligatory list follows: Melissa, Dan, Deb F,
Stefanie Riehl (!!), Andy Sten, Mr. J Lawson, Brian S, Rick C, Mr. Ulrich
and Teresa, Margareta, Rick C, Amy E, Stacie, Kim N, Jessica and sick
husband, I'm sure I'm forgetting people).
Ooh, and there was a show-shocker for the evening, at least for me.  If
you'd rather wait to see this live and want to be surprised, just stop
reading...
so...
don't read any further unless you want to read what ELSE they played that
Dan didn't mention.
it's old school...
I warned you...
"If I'm Drowning" was tastefully -- no, wait -- amazingly added to the live
coda of "Give Me Strength".  It was seamless and beautiful and powerful even
in a two minute chorus only snippet...  And I'm not one of those old-school
OtR dirtbags that lives for this sort of thing, but I didn't sleep last
night and don't plan on it tonight either.  haha, just kidding.
yah, for those of you not in the know, they played a weird national anthem
thing on a sampler or recording prior to sleep baby jane.  It was awkward.
we tried to dance to it but couldn't, and we didn't know which was allah was
'cos we were in the hot and stuffy building.
oh
the show was indeed rockin', and I'm glad they played bogarts.  It was way
more fun of a venue if they were going to focus on the more 'up' material,
which was a great change of pace.  the mix was pretty good I thought for the
venue.  Karin's vox were reverb-y, like, a lot.  The rest was kickin', and
I'll take a reverbed Karin voice over most other options anytime.

     Rose Polenzani opened.  I stood three people from the
stage and still found it difficult to listen to her
because so many people were talking loudly.  I listened
to her self-titled CD today.  I would enjoy hearing her
live without conversation distractions.  She will be part
of the tour.  In less noisy venues you should try to get
there early enough to listen to her.
     The mix of old and new Over-the-Rhine songs went
together perfectly well.  Some mellow songs.  The overall
effect was high energy.  There were several people who
moved with the music spread out in pockets in the
audience.  The recorded America song seemed odd to me.  I
wonder how it was meant to flow into the next song.  Maybe
next time it will make more sense to me.
     There was an aftershow across the street in the
second floor of Martino's across the street for those who
bought the new CD at the show.  The second floor was a
bar on one side and a dance floor and pool table in a
larger room next to the bar.  One couple played pool.
Everyone else was in the bar area.  A table had free food.
The pizza was gone by the time I got there.  I had some
fried boneless chicken.  Rolling Rock beer and soft drinks
were free.  The crowd did not interract very much.  I was
curious what would happen.  There was no promise of seeing
the band but I expected to see them as I walked in.  Later
Karin and Linford and Jack came in, split up and talked
with people in bar.  Linford said that the party was set
up by a gentleman from EMI.  It was a very nice touch.

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