LOCATION: Cornerstone Festival, Encore Stage, Bushnell, IL
LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Jack, Wade Jaynes, Dale Baker
REVIEW BY: Various Listees
After Stryper, what was left to see at Cornerstone? Well, Over the Rhine, of course! After their softer set yesterday, today was time to turn the amps up to 11 and rock out. Tonight its the full five-piece band, Here's who's who from left to right: Linford - Looks the same as yesterday, same orange glasses. Tonight he's got his full set up. Synth, Hammond organ, and Wurlitzer keyboard. Wade - Wade is behind Linford. He's wearing jeans and looking kinda mountain-man-ish. He's playing a teal Fender bass. Karin - Karin's got a nice silver dress and black top. Dale - Wearing a hat and back behind the bulletproof glass. Dale's drums are loud. This is a good thing. Jack - He wears his sunglasses at night.... Um, anyways. He's got the Gretch Tennessean, Fender Strat, and Slide again tonight. The Set List The World Can Wait If Nothing Else Faithfully Dangerous When I Go I Radio Heaven Little Blue River Birds Moth Latter Days All I Need My Love is a Fever Goodbye FIRST ENCORE: Sleep Baby Jane Give Me Strength SECOND ENCORE: Rhapsodie Notes: World Can Wait Karin's vocals started out too quiet, but are turned up halfway through the song. Jack is playing the Gretch. I wasn't sure this song would work well live when I first heard it on the CD, but it sure did. If Nothing Else Karin plays the accoustic guitar. Faithfully Dangerous Jack switches to the Fender. Rockin' little version. Linford says hey. When I Go Karin plays accoustic and Jack is playing the Gretch. I Radio Heaven Jack switches to Fender for this songs and he's really loud. But that's a good thing. It gives this song both growl and bite. Little Blue River This is the only song that Jack used the slide guitar for and he really stretched out the solo at the end. Linford added his own short solo, too. Birds Karin is still playing the accoustic guitar and Jack is playing the Gretch. When they did this song in Atlanta, it totally kicked my butt. Tonight it only partially kicked my butt. I think its because in Atlanta they just launched right into it, whereas tonight Dale started off first on drums and then the rest of the song started. Moth Big ol' growling organ intro by Linford. The "Films" version of this song is so much snappier than the original version. The crowd loves this one. Some people make some requests and Karin remarks how funny of their song titles are. Latter Days Jack switches back to the Fender. Someone requests "Il Est Dans Mon Poche" and Karin says she would have been a bad ambassidor to France due to her grammatical error in the title of the song. All I Need I just noticed that Dale sometimes uses a pair of drumsticks in each hand, such as on this song. My Love Is A Fever Karin says she feels like James Brown with the number of times she has used the towel on her forehead. She then introduces the crowd and the band before this song. Goodbye Jack changes to the Gretch guitar. Sleep Baby Jane As much as I love this song, I've never been satisfied with the live version. When Karin starts crying "Baby Jane!", the guitar part behind her never sounds right. To be fair, the album version has like 3 or 4 guitar parts all layered over each other, which makes it inherently difficult to replicate live. Tonight's version is about as good as I've heard it. Give Me Strength Karin censors the song for the kids at Cornerstone. The "I'm Just Walking Across Your Heart" outro rocked my world. I was hoping deep inside that maybe for Cornerstone they'd throw us a bone and play the whole _If I'm Drowning_, but no such luck. That's okay, this was the highlight of the show for me. Rhapsodie "Stryper wore you out?" Karin asks to a cheering crowd. What a great way to close things out and wrap up Cornerstone. Kind of like a soft landing after a long flight. Not much to add after all these notes... Now I know what Linford refers to when he talks so often about grabbing hold of life and wringing it until its dry. Right now, I'm dry as a bone.