Post by Scott Hays on Feb 18, 2005 9:07:20 GMT -5
Though I submitted what follows to the hoyhoy list, I forgot to post a report on the Santa Rosa, California show here (Feb 12, 2005 ... second stop of the 2005 tour). So, forgive my tardiness. Also, maybe one folder would be a good place to put reports of all shows?
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!" (what he did, since I neglected to describe it in the original post, was bend over with arms extended to the floor and basically noodle around the melody of OFB, but teasing with a couple of other songs -- most notably the damned chicken song, which was not played on this night -- until suddenly it became obvious that the song was OFB, and had probably been OFB all along).
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 (straight-on version)
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.
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!" (what he did, since I neglected to describe it in the original post, was bend over with arms extended to the floor and basically noodle around the melody of OFB, but teasing with a couple of other songs -- most notably the damned chicken song, which was not played on this night -- until suddenly it became obvious that the song was OFB, and had probably been OFB all along).
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 (straight-on version)
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.