Sep 11 2004 @ Blake's on Telegraph Berkeley, CA

Okay, maybe some of the others who were there can fill in more blanks. (LisaB? Froggy? Albert?) In the meantime, here are my thoughts from the show last night, using a trite movie metaphor for structure:

THE GOOD --got to see the boys again. --newish players (Rocky, Tory) seem to be a lot more solid now. (Granted, when I last saw them, they were VERY new, and it was almos...

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ok my $.02 here. . .

i didn't think it was a bad show per se but not one of their best. they did change up the set list which was nice. one thing mig forgot to mention was a new song they played. unfortunately, i didn't catch the name. from what i recall & in no particular order:

critical times are you wid it everyday sunshine jackass brigade ugly alcoholic new song, whatever it's called another generation the suffering - i still love this song, but miss walt's backing vocals which norwood has taken over freddie's dead (w/female guest vocalist, don't know what her name was) lyin' ass bitch (dedicated to bush, about as political as angelo got last night) encore: sunless saturday instrumental jam with angelo on drums, norwood, torrie "frat boy rapper" in the plaid shirt - get your hands in the air y'all - not what i was hoping for in an encore song.

as for the crowd, yes i was quite annoyed. maybe it was because it was berkeley & it's a college crowd but it was a lame crowd. i'm normally pretty calm but was ready to kick some ass last night. the venue was in the basement & air was only circulated near the bar & bathrooms. angelo's mic was very low so you couldn't hear the vocals very well.

as for the band, i think they had some pre-show celebrations earlier in the day. today is norwood's birthday - happy birthday norwood! before the show we talked to rocky outside who stumbled out & reeked of alcohol. i'm not sure who was the worst case but my vote was for rocky. dre was on keyboards and i'm not sure who the trumpet player was either. he didn't do trumpet on sunless saturday which was disappointing.

i really wanted to go to the saturday show because it was 9/11 & 9/12 is norwood's birthday. i was hoping for more political talk - even telling these college kids to go out & vote would have been nice - but they didn't.

it was also very nice meeting albert from the list. turns out he lives very close to mig & myself here in the south bay.

as always, i'm thankful for listening to their music which puts a smile on my face regardless. it might not have been a perfect show but at least it was a show that i got to see.

LisaB

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Not much to add about the Berkeley show, except to fill in a couple of blanks:

--The guest female vocalist was, if I heard the intro correctly, Durga McBroom (who shared co-writing credits with Angelo on "Karma Tsunami").

--The second of the new songs was "Cheyenne Star Forever Moore," or at least that's what the chorus seemed to be.

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