bböp Posted Sunday at 06:45 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:45 PM Because this is an inflection point of sorts on this part of the Twilight Override tour, I'm going to jump ahead and post this Chicago recap now. But rest assured I will eventually get all caught up with the other shows from the tour that haven't been addressed here yet... Complete setlist, as played: Betrayed One Tiny Flower Caught Up In The Past Parking Lot Forever Never Ends This Is How It Ends World Away Low Key KC Rain (No Wonder) Mirror Gwendolyn Stray Cats In Spain Out In The Dark Ain’t It A Shame Flowering New Orleans Diamond Light Pt. 1 No One’s Moving On Feel Free Lou Reed Was My Babysitter ------------------------------------ Twilight Override Family Ghost Half-Asleep (w/James Elkington on electric guitar) Tell Me Something Good [Rufus] (w/Sima Cunningham on lead vocals and James Elkington on electric guitar) Far, Far Away (w/Dustin Laurenzi and Sen Morimoto on saxophone) Enough Number of Twilight Override songs played (out of 30): 17. “Special” song: Or songs, as it were. First came Tell Me Something Good by Rufus, with Sima doing her best Chaka Khan on lead vocals, which the band apparently just learned backstage prior to the show before performing it that night. Then came what Jeff said was initially going to be the “special song” with a horn-supplemented version of Far, Far Away by a certain Chicago outfit. Support report: Macie Stewart performed mostly the same set of songs she has been playing during her opening slots on this tour, but being home in Chicago, she was able to have a full ensemble behind her with Whitney Johnson on viola, Zach Moore on upright bass and both Dustin Laurenzi and Sen Morimoto on saxophone. Sima Cunningham joined the group on electric guitar for the last song, a new one. Venue vibes: The Salt Shed, a large, converted salt factory which has rapidly become one of the premier venues in Chicago, hosts shows both outdoors during the warmer months and indoors year-round. The indoor space is fairly cavernous — total capacity: 3,500 — and features a large standing-room floor with a VIP seated balcony on one side and a grandstand with reserved stadium seating in the back facing the stage. Bits of tid, including Banter Corner: Jeff said the plan for the “special song” was originally just going to be Far, Far Away, “but my wife got so mad at me because she wanted a dance song” that the band quickly pulled Tell Me Something Good together to round out the program. And once again, thank goodness for Susie’s intervention. I mean, Far, Far Away would have been a nice surprise as these things go, and Jeff mentioned how the song held a special significance for him vis a vis Chicago specifically because of his memories of the room he would stay in when he visited his future home city during the early days of his and Susie’s relationship. But it was nice to get a little funkiness at the end of the night, at least IMHO. Likewise, it was great to see James Elkington join for a couple of songs in the encore. Jeff noted his status as “an alum” of the Tweedy band and also noted his contributions to more than a few of the songs on the studio recording of Twilight Override. A funny visit to Banter Corner came after KC Rain (No Wonder) when Jeff acknowledged that “we have a lot of songs that end ambiguously. You weren’t sure it was over, were you?” The brief, uncertain pause before the audience response, Jeff said, caused him to be left standing there proverbially “shitting my pants waiting for the applause.” When Jeff apparently heard someone yell out a cheer just then, he added, “Are you cheering someone shitting their pants? I’ll take it! It’s something I’m good at.” Fittingly the very next song in the set, Mirror, also features kind of an awkward ending, and Jeff literally got a look on his face that said, “See what I mean?” and smiled broadly at what he had just spoken about coming to pass. Another visit to Banter Corner came when Jeff was introducing the band and said in part, “one of the thrills of my life is getting to travel around and play music with these talented people,” pointing to Sima, Liam and Macie, “and my children.” Obviously Jeff was joking, but he chided himself, adding, “That’s not very nice.” One other bit of banter involved Jeff talking about how there were a few quieter numbers in the setlist and he would try to give audience members a heads up before those, so they would presumably pay extra close attention. Then Jeff briefly mused about his frontman skills and how “I still wish I was David Lee Roth. But David Lee Roth would never tell you when a quiet song was about to happen…because there never would be a quiet song.” One of the Twilight Override tracks not always in regular rotation but that seems to be gaining traction of late is No One’s Moving On, when Liam and Sima switch spots and instruments on stage with Liam taking over bass duties while Sima plays electric guitar. It seems like the band has found a groove on that song over the past few shows. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted yesterday at 07:51 AM Share Posted yesterday at 07:51 AM 13 hours ago, bböp said: I'm going to jump ahead . . .. But rest assured I will eventually get all caught up Stretching the space-time continuum a bit there - hope the website can stand the strain. Feel free To sing ta ta ta ta-ta-ta ta Which is Hey Jude improved by replacement of the na's Feel free Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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