DATE: May 6, 2008

LOCATION: Messiah College, Grantham, PA

LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Mickey Grimm, Jake Bradley

REVIEW BY:



Motherless Child (so good)
Born
Trouble (fanTASTic)
Waste
Trumpet Child (these two featured horn players who were mostly music majors at the school - K&L said from the stage it was the first time in a loooong time they'd had horns with em. L referred to them several times as the "Messiah Hornblowers")
Who'm I Kiddin
I'm On A Roll
Drunkard's Prayer
Suitcase
Ohio
BPD (loud! good!)
Jack's Valentine
Hush Now (Mickey totally with L's many tempo changes on the solo section = very impressive)
Prez

encore:
Desperate
(unidentified Cole Porter tune: K a cappella = brilliant)
Tom
 

Sweet show. Special for me, because I've been a fan since Patience, having seen them manymany times...and I was one of those horns. I played trumpet (flugelhorn actually) on Trumpet Child, and I was the one who transcribed the horn parts from the record. I can say without bias that everybody was genuinely warm and kind throughout the whole thing - Linford in particular seemed thrilled to have horns and was happy with how they sounded, and Juicy and Mickey both went out of their way to express their appreciation too. And of course, it was a huge thrill for me to (gulp) play on stage with one of my favorite bands of all time.

...though it should be said I've seen em in better venues...

P.S. I gave Linford a copy of the horn parts, which I did on a computer so they would look as good as possible. Dunno if they'll every line up horns again, but they now have that possibility at least, so here's hoping.
 
 

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