LOCATION: The Concert Hall, New York, NY
LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Devon Ashley, Rick Plant
REVIEW BY:
Brookd:
Keith - Did you go? I walked around yelling "Keith! Keith!" but no one answered. and then Linford came down from the stage and (in not so gentle terms) asked me to please sit down and be quiet while they were playing.
oh, and thank the Lord someone took some pictures. They told me we couldnt' take pictures, and I didn't want to get kicked out of New York, having driven 650 miles to get there, so I kept my camera in my pants.
and HEM was WONDERFULL!!! except they didn't play Reciever, which is one of my favorites. but the piano/guitar/violin instrumental encore song almost made me cry. I think it was Burying Song, but I don't know their song titles enough to be sure. That violinist is HOT (in all the ways you might interpret that).
the sound in there was a bit echoey. not the greatest venue to see a show, IMO, soundwise. and where the hell were all the people?? Radiohead only held 800, and Eels and Sonic Youth were both the night prior. not that many fans in NY? too much competition/distraction? Hem & OtR ought to bring that show round here to Ann Arbor where the folks appreciate a good show by selling it out. I'm mostly upset that I paid 12 bucks in unnecessary service charges for an advance ticket.
What the hell is the Society for Ethical Culture anyway? a church? a school? a cult? wierd name...
I was a bit spacey through much of the show, unfortunately, having just come from walking over the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn Heights and then through the financial district looking for the subway stop, which turned out to be next to that church of George Washington fame that I passed about 5 blocks prior. I will never trust my New York existence to any map other than Streetwise. ever. Dinner in GV was nice, but NY can wear a person down to the nub after 4 days. anyway, the MOTHER tour was great. and a Vigilante sold me a great new OtR shirt. K&L seem to disappear after their shows lately, so they missed an opportunity to tell me what a good boy I was for coming so far to see them. I was going to tell them "good show" and stuff, but I had to settle for saying that to a drummer in a yellow Hem shirt as I left to go hang out in front of Trump Towers down the street for a while to beg for money.
ChuckS:
The NY venue is a church, and I thought the sound was quite good there as well, although it needed tweaking for a few songs. It had a real piano, as opposed to the electric piano employed at the TLA.
Over the Rhine:
Karin Bergquist - vocals, guitar, shaky things
Linford Detweiller - piano, guitar, bass
Rick Plant - guitar, bass
Devon Ashley - drums
Hem
Sally Ellyson - vocals
Dan Messe - piano
Steve Curtis - guitar, mandolin, vocals
Gary Maurer - guitar, mandolin, harmonica, tambourine
Bob Hoffnar - pedal steel
George Rush - bass
Mark Brotter - drums
Dawn Landes - vocals, glockenspiel (NYC only)
Heather Zimmerman - violin (NYC)
(it was a nice surprise, although in retrospect not all that surprising,
to see the last two added to the shows - some songs would not have been
as good, or even possible, without them)
The songs:
June 14
OTR
Trouble
I Want You to be My Love (song I missed most the first night)
Born
Lookin’ Forward
I’m on a Roll
Entertaining Thoughts
Little Did I Know
Suitcase
Show Me
Drunkard’s Prayer
Encore:
Lifelong Fling
When I Go
HEM
Golden Day
Rainy Night in Georgia
Fire Thief
Lucky
My Father’s Waltz (nice work by Heather)
Reservoir
Leave Me Here
Hollow (not many songs can trump Leave Me Here)
Lazy Eye
Old Adam (a favorite new one of mine)
Pacific Street
Don’t Fence Me In
Carry Me Home
Not California
Half an Acre
Encore:
Waltz (very, very nice!)
Jackson
Dance With Me, Now Darling