| Great Big Sea at the World Trade Center NYC - July 24, 2001 |
| > Best show I have seen in a long time! Alan was a little devil this evening. Clothes: Darrell-black Tee and black jeans, > Alan - Maroon pants and same combo as Long Island black tee and shiny black shirt, He had his hair half up in a ponytail because of the heat. At one point the hair was coming out of the ponytail and he said to us "Talk amongst yourselves while I put the hair back." > S�an - new black shirt (prolly bought today cause it had the folds outlined real well on it like it just came out of the package) and blue jeans. He arrived at the stage in shorts and then changed in the band area. The others walked over wearing what they wore at the show. > Bob in the new black bowling shirt with the circle thing on the sleeve and black pants. And that man had the bluest eyes I have ever seen in my 49 years of life! OMG! You could just be so mesmerized by them all night! > Lots of chatters there and other fans and some new people. Leslie from Texas and her friend were acknowledged by Alan from the stage (he must've had his contacts in) Fran and Carol, Howard and Cheryl, Tina, Jesse, Janet and her friend, Tim from Boston, Caroline and her friend, Karen and I, Gordon, Doug Shaw, and a bunch of others, too. I lost my notebook on the way home and I am a tad upset about it because my notes were in it, but I'll try to remember as best I can. > Donkey Riding > Billy Peddle > When I'm Up > Goin' Up - talked about the venue a bit and I think it was here that Alan said something like "wow! Here at the famous World Trade Center." Sean: "Yeah they trade hockey cards here. Bet you didn't bring your hockey trading cards Alan. Here you probably could get a Bobby Orr!" > Everything Shines - Alan talked about how "just 4 days ago my grandmother declared Road Rage to be the best album ever made. Take your White Albums and break them, throw them out! Road Rage will be a collector's item." > Old Black Rum - "Raise you arm as if you were drinking." There were people who had drinks and raised them. "As IF you had drinks! Wait - you actually HAVE drinks? Cool!" Then he says "but the guy in the gray shirt didn't do it, so we have to do it again." And we did another 3 or 4 times while Bob laughed his head off in the corner. > Night Pat Murphy Died - Sean: "This is a song of ironic detachment. A songs about drinking and death -there's the ironic detachment part." When Sean sang the "Every man was feeling gay..." part, he looked over to Alan and said, "Alan, we'll talk about that later." Alan cracked up at the mike and says to the audience after we waited for him to stop laughing, "I just thought of something really funny but I can't say it on stage. Meet us at the pub after the show, I'll tell ya then!" > Consequence Free - "We can absolve you of your sins. We're all Catholic up here." "Wow! The World Trade Center - King Kong was right over there!" > Boston and St. John's - At the end of the song, I swear the man was in tears. He turned away at the end after he looked too pained to be faking it. Either that or he's taking acting lessons - but I'll swear I saw a tear. He even turned away when Karen went to go take a picture. > General Taylor > Sea of No Cares - Alan: It's hard singing a new song. I try to teach everyone the chorus first because if you don't, you're up there for 3 1/2 minutes, scared, and non one's singing." Then he smiled with an evil grin and said, "Oh, sorry, Bob." > Lukey - nice long solo section with Alan joining in with what is usually Darrell and Sean only. > I'm a Rover - Sean: "This is a song about breaking windows. Or, rather, opening windows. This song is dedicated to the women in the audience who have windows - especially the ones who have windows that open." Alan then says, "Uh, Sean, windows normally open." Then Sean goes back into the intro: "This is a song about a rover. The rover's name is Darrell - *pause and evil grin* - Darrell the Rover." While they were playing this, Alan wanted Danny to raise the level of his guitar on the soundboard and kept making head movements. Danny knew exactly what he wanted and messed with him a little threatening to turn it WAY up and then pretending he had when he hadn't. > Old Brown's Daughter - not on the setlist. Alan made a big thing about it not being on the setlist. Called it the rural Newfoundland town version of Romeo and Juliet. Darrell began singing the high harmony almost right off. Sean and Bob didn't come in right away. Darrell did end up singing that lovely bass part though. *sigh* > Jack Hinks - very nicely done. Loads of audience participation. > Mari Mac - Sean taught the audience the words. We practiced 3 times before the song began. And Bob's fingers were absolutely flying over that fiddle. Alan broke a string at the end and in addition knocked the low E out of tune so at the end he was messing with the tuning peg making all kinds of weird sounds coming from his guitar. > Ordinary Day > Encore : Excursion 'Round the Bay - Darrell really showed great restraint this evening when Alan crept over to him and patted his butt while Darrell was singing. He almost cracked up but kept it together. > Tunes (Feller from Fortune - chorus sung about halfway thru the tune) After Excursion, they went right into this, but not before Danny chased Alan around the stage trying to give him the guitar. Alan was playing "keep away" and Danny finally put the guitar right smack in the middle of the stage and left Alan to pick it up. > > Bob was extremely smiley tonight. Alan was extremely hyper and loved the fact that he was playing in the middle of the World Trade Centre. Darrell and Sean were amused and amusing too. Sean seemed a bit grumpy in the beginning. As he got into the show, though, he was all-out mischievous. But Alan took the cake! |
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