Post by Scott Hays on Feb 14, 2005 8:52:05 GMT -5
I posted this on the hoyhoy digest, but for non-hoyers, here is a brief report on the second show of the 2005 tour:
A raucous crowd of 650 or so pretty much filled up the Jackson Theater at the Sonoma Country Day School (a private K-8 school with tremendous facilities) last night (Saturday) for the second stop of the new tour. Though dancing police tried to discourage blatant celebration through most of the show (this is a formal, sit down theater that normally houses the Sonoma County Symphony Orchestra, not to mention the outstanding theater and performing arts program of the school), they could do nothing about a dozen 9-12 year olds who just couldn't sit still. That opened the flood gates to a slow trickle until the band launched into Let It Roll, when the place practically exploded. Wow! And then they followed, as an encore, with Old Folks Boogie that brought the house down ... even Denny could not believe what Paul did in the opening of the song ... "I've never heard him do that before!" This was a really together set, and the band just flat out cooked! You will not want to miss a show coming to your part of the world.
The set-list:
Voodoo Jam>
All That You Dream
Oh Atlanta
Love You Like a Woman
Down on the Farm
I'd Be Lyin'
Spanish Moon>
Skin It Back
Voices on the Wind (dedicated to Keith Knudson, and Shaun was absolutely spot-on stunning)
Willin'>
Long Black Veil>
The Weight
Blues Don't Tell It All
Let It Roll
Encore (not included on the set list)
Old Folks Boogie
Frederick Nighthawk, an accomplished piano-player and vocalist of a definite New Orleans persuasion, opened the show with a wide-ranging set of songs. More intriguing to me was Stanley Mouse in the lobby, selling a limited edition poster of the event and autographing it. He was also selling prints of his work ... difficult to imagine until one sort of sees it (sort of) all in one place. My god! What an influential artist!
Lots of featfans made the trek, coming from as far away as Oregon and SoCal. It's been a year and half since the Feat performed on the central coast, and many years since they have been in Santa Rosa itself, so folks were hungry. There was a mini-Mateel reunion, of sorts, with a lot of the usual suspects present ... you all know who you are, and I don't want to leave anyone's name out. What was really cool was that security was really lax at about 4:30 or 5:00, and it was not hard for a half-dozen or so of us to find our way to the bus (we followed it into the parking lot) and in the backstage door for sound check (and what a treat it was her Billy, Fred and Sam -- Sam on drums -- playing together just before they shut everything down).
John DuBois stepped up to act as the POC for the show in Blue Lake tonight (Sunday). If you see this before the show begins, check in with him.
Paco wrote back, and wanted to know just what it was that Paul did in OFB that was so unusual. I don't know ... it's really hard for me to describe auditory things (since I am so overwhelmingly visual), but here's what I said ...
For me, it's sort of like trying to describe a sunset or the sound of a red-shouldered hawk ... words just don't quite work. The best I can do is say he bent way over, arms out straight and guitar almost on the ground, and noodled around the melody of the song; at first, you couldn't tell what he was playing (in fact, some of us thought it was going to be Dixie Chicken), but then it just sort of materialized as Old Folks Boogie (and like it had been OFB the entire time, if you know what I mean). I don't know if anyone taped the show ... for the first time in a really long time I forgot to check (must be all that time the band has been anywhere else but California, and I grew rusty) ... but that would be the best way to experience it. Who knows, maybe he'll do it at a show near you.
A raucous crowd of 650 or so pretty much filled up the Jackson Theater at the Sonoma Country Day School (a private K-8 school with tremendous facilities) last night (Saturday) for the second stop of the new tour. Though dancing police tried to discourage blatant celebration through most of the show (this is a formal, sit down theater that normally houses the Sonoma County Symphony Orchestra, not to mention the outstanding theater and performing arts program of the school), they could do nothing about a dozen 9-12 year olds who just couldn't sit still. That opened the flood gates to a slow trickle until the band launched into Let It Roll, when the place practically exploded. Wow! And then they followed, as an encore, with Old Folks Boogie that brought the house down ... even Denny could not believe what Paul did in the opening of the song ... "I've never heard him do that before!" This was a really together set, and the band just flat out cooked! You will not want to miss a show coming to your part of the world.
The set-list:
Voodoo Jam>
All That You Dream
Oh Atlanta
Love You Like a Woman
Down on the Farm
I'd Be Lyin'
Spanish Moon>
Skin It Back
Voices on the Wind (dedicated to Keith Knudson, and Shaun was absolutely spot-on stunning)
Willin'>
Long Black Veil>
The Weight
Blues Don't Tell It All
Let It Roll
Encore (not included on the set list)
Old Folks Boogie
Frederick Nighthawk, an accomplished piano-player and vocalist of a definite New Orleans persuasion, opened the show with a wide-ranging set of songs. More intriguing to me was Stanley Mouse in the lobby, selling a limited edition poster of the event and autographing it. He was also selling prints of his work ... difficult to imagine until one sort of sees it (sort of) all in one place. My god! What an influential artist!
Lots of featfans made the trek, coming from as far away as Oregon and SoCal. It's been a year and half since the Feat performed on the central coast, and many years since they have been in Santa Rosa itself, so folks were hungry. There was a mini-Mateel reunion, of sorts, with a lot of the usual suspects present ... you all know who you are, and I don't want to leave anyone's name out. What was really cool was that security was really lax at about 4:30 or 5:00, and it was not hard for a half-dozen or so of us to find our way to the bus (we followed it into the parking lot) and in the backstage door for sound check (and what a treat it was her Billy, Fred and Sam -- Sam on drums -- playing together just before they shut everything down).
John DuBois stepped up to act as the POC for the show in Blue Lake tonight (Sunday). If you see this before the show begins, check in with him.
Paco wrote back, and wanted to know just what it was that Paul did in OFB that was so unusual. I don't know ... it's really hard for me to describe auditory things (since I am so overwhelmingly visual), but here's what I said ...
For me, it's sort of like trying to describe a sunset or the sound of a red-shouldered hawk ... words just don't quite work. The best I can do is say he bent way over, arms out straight and guitar almost on the ground, and noodled around the melody of the song; at first, you couldn't tell what he was playing (in fact, some of us thought it was going to be Dixie Chicken), but then it just sort of materialized as Old Folks Boogie (and like it had been OFB the entire time, if you know what I mean). I don't know if anyone taped the show ... for the first time in a really long time I forgot to check (must be all that time the band has been anywhere else but California, and I grew rusty) ... but that would be the best way to experience it. Who knows, maybe he'll do it at a show near you.