LOCATION: The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI
LINEUP: Brian, Linford, Karin, Jack, David
REVIEW BY: Bruce Lachey
Welp, I haven't read anything anyone's posted yet about the show, so here goes: setlist: Latter Days / All I Need is Everything / Tumbleweeds / Little Blue River / Moth / Goodbye / June / Etc. Whatever / Bothered / Anyway / Faithfully Dangerous / Lucy / Jack's Valentine / Circle of Quiet / (encore 1) Rhapsodie / Go Down Easy / (encore 2) I Will Remember / My Love is a Fever The show was AWESOME. I love the Ark. Imagine Canal Street with a nice sound mix, no clinking glasses, triple the capacity, and a reasonable seating arrangement. Niki Buhrig opened up, I like that "Drive" song by her quite a bit. Dave Labruyere played OtR bass and wore white socks. Karin's hair: red, Jack's: blonde?, Linford: hat. The band was phenominal sounding; even the Latter Days opener they seemed 'ON', ya know? "Lucy" had that stop/start end that seems a little Vegas-lounge like, but small complaints... Lots of good chat between songs. Circle of Quiet ended with descending volume, quite entertaining. Lots of the stuff seemed like 5-6bpm faster, quite an improvement for "Moth", "Tumbleweeds". Karin commented that they were gonna try to keep it quieter, but that wasn't happening. She wished she'd've brought her electric, since a lot of the stuff was strange to play on acoustic... It was great chatting again with listees Amy/Raven and Walter, and non-listees Ash and Jess and Jess and Denice. TRIBUTE OK, so the question I'm sure is on lots of y'all's minds is "how did the question go?" Linford brought it up after the show. "Bruce! I hear you have a confession to make". Stacy from the office had let them know what was going on. They think it's a great idea, he actually gave me a vote for the tribute title (but since his vote counts no more or less than ours, I just put voted it on the website!!). "Knock yourselves out" was Mr. Detweiler's final comment on the tribute CD. Karin seemed more than willing to select a charity, but I'm sure it's not something that can be easily selected while putting away a guitar.