Great Scotts is a college bar in Alston. Small bar, small stage. Not much to write home about. I'm actually surprised they would play this room, but hey, at least they'll be in town!
I feel that Davis often books rooms too small. I know they don't draw well outside of the big cities and on weekdays but Thursday in Boston should be pretty solid.
So nobody has the setlist for the smokin' hot show they did in Alston? That was a great night of music. They played for two and a half hours straight. There were about four ocassions where the jams verged into old school Slip teritory....just a blast and you could tell the boys were having fun too
I don't have an in-depth review for y'all, but I know some peeps who are better at these things and I will try to coerce them into writing some kind of review. I do have some photos (party cam, not HQ, but fun pix big-time) which allude to the groovin' vibe. Lotsa old skoolers came out for this one, including Tasoula, Heather, Booty and Lara, Chloe, Jimmy Trapella, Uday (back from Left Coast), Torrey, Phatty Matty and Black Peter (so half of the Creekside Security Detail was there). In spite of the torrential downpour, it was a good showing (but coulda been more packed, you slackers!). Kinda strange to be in Great Scott's again (after so many years), but after a beer or two it felt just like home. We even got a surprise visit from Mr. Sammy Leonard, who packed up Lettuce (from the boat cruise) in record time (had to put away tons of gear...such a big band to break down so fast is no easy feat). I was very psyched to get some quality time with old friends. The whole weekend was stupendous and part of the reason noone's talking much (yet) is because many of us went straight to the Up North Festival (which is absolutely primo...best northeast festival, IMO) at 7 AM so not enough free time to get the words and photos out to your eager eyes.
Good to hear some reports trickle in! Surprise Me was just tearing it up on the West coast so needless to say my anticipation of these shows was pretty high... Sucks though that it seems that none of them seemed to have gotten recorded....
Definitely enjoyed the Great Scott show -- high energy, good mix of song and jam. Having openers Jim Hobbs and Django Carranza sit in definitely seemed to work at times -- there was some great Brad/Jim interplay; did anyone else catch Brad playing back some of Jim's skronky lines almost note for note, his guitar taking on an oddly sax-like tone? -- but I have to say the horn was really distracting when it tried to back up vocals, which happened a lot there for a while. But glad I made it out and even stayed til very near the end -- a late night when there's a toddler in the house, but well worth it. I'm sure it's been asked, but any tapes out there?
