Red Mosquito

Man, I want to get a Wash opener some day...

Nice set, by the way, Matt. I dig it.

Long Road
Sad
Down
State of Love and Trust
Brother
Alone
I Got Shit
Man of the Hour
Education
Hold On
Breath

Fatal
Strangest Tribe
Footsteps
Hard to Imagine

Leaving Here
Yellow Ledbetter

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:WHY THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH THAT.

Didn't chud and pat meet up once?

1-Yellow Ledbetter
2-All Night
3-Down
4-Education
5-Hold On
6-Wash
7-Strangest Tribe
8-Fatal
9-Last Soldier
10-Golden State
11-Undone
12-Black Red Yellow
13-Sonic Reducer
14-I Got Shit
15-Alone
16-Breath


17-Drifting
18-Last Kiss
19-Sad
20-Real Me
21-State of Love and Trust
22-Of the Earth

23-Crown of Thorns
24-Hard to Imagine

I like the idea of ledbetter as an opener someday, but the show needs to close with release and be a completly reversed show, first set about 4 or 5 songs, 2nd set 5 or 6 songs and the 3rd set or last encore 17 or 18 songs

Fun for a goof. But a YL opener is weird.

Yeah, it's one of those things you (well, not me) think would be cool, but it really wouldn't be.

Birds in Hell wrote:Yeah, it's one of those things you (well, not me) think would be cool, but it really wouldn't be.

I think it would kill a show before it got started. Not sure the gig could recover.

Maybe if they tried what Doc suggested. Maybe. But, I mean, maybe.

It couldn't be any worse than "Better Man" as an opener.

"My voice needs a rest, why don't you guys handle the first verse?"

Yeesh.

Mood wise, though, Better Man could get things started. It has forward momentum. Especially with a good tag. And the audience is with you immediately.

YL the first thing the guy says to you is, "I don't wanna stay." Plus, we're conditioned for it to be the end. If it's more than your first show, you're packing up inside.

durdencommatyler wrote:YL the first thing the guys to you is, "I don't wanna stay."

Oh, you know Eddie would change the words in genuine "let the show begin" fashion.

Kevin Davis wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:YL the first thing the guys to you is, "I don't wanna stay."

Oh, you know Eddie would change the words in genuine "let the show begin" fashion.

God help us all.

On the ceiling
On the floor a letter sat
Come out and play
I only want to feel this way again

On the stage here
On this porch we're gonna rock
Let me say
We can't wait to play all night

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:YL the first thing the guys to you is, "I don't wanna stay."

Oh, you know Eddie would change the words in genuine "let the show begin" fashion.

God help us all.

On the ceiling
On the floor a letter sat
Come out and play
I only want to feel this way again

On the stage here
On this porch we're gonna rock
Let me say
We can't wait to play all night

Im sure that would be the lyrics. Id like to see it just to say i saw it, not sure if there would be another way to make ledbetter interesting on a setlist

REM used to close shows with end of the world as we know it. I saw them the day after Bush won relelection in 2004 and they opened with that song, and followed it up with a traditional opener. I loved it. Granted end of the world is a different type of song.

Way different. Sounds cool, though. End of the World works well in both the front and the back.

it does. And I think starting a show with Yellow Ledbetter is confusing and unsettling and creates a 'what is going to happen next' feel. I agree completely that it's not a great way to start a show, which is why you'd need a more proper opener to follow it up. YL becomes a preface

stip wrote:it does. And I think starting a show with Yellow Ledbetter is confusing and unsettling and creates a 'what is going to happen next' feel. I agree completely that it's not a great way to start a show, which is why you'd need a more proper opener to follow it up. YL becomes a preface

I could see this being kind of cool, if like you said it was followed by a proper opener.

theplatypus wrote:Could you refresh my memory?

There was a bit of a dust up in the "Mix Tape" competition a couple years back when I may have expressed a strong opinion about the entries that had their studio selections mixed at the beginning, and their required live songs clumped together at the end. I found it a very lazy attempt without much thought.

Speed Wash
Drifting
Strangest Tribe
That one about snakes in a basket
Goat
Down
State of Love and Trust
Sonic Reducer
Stranglehold
Breath

Dirty Frank
Out of My Mind
Last Kiss

Yellow Ledbetter