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| 02-03-2012 1:57 pm |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
Awesome! I can do Annapolis. Assuming it's the one in MD.
You guys rock my world!
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| 02-03-2012 11:33 am |
| miss october |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Hi Hip,
Venues sometimes announce shows or even sell tickets before we can put them on the site here. That doesn't always mean the shows won't happen, we may just be waiting to finalize some of the details, or we may be contractually prohibited from advertising until closer to the show. Either way, fans post what they learn on the message board, and everyone does what they need to do.
Thanks,
Carol
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| 02-03-2012 11:04 am |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
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I don't see a Memorial Day gig listed?
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| 02-03-2012 10:36 am |
| skortan |
| Shellie - Colorado |
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That would be....Blues, Brews and BBQ!
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| 02-03-2012 10:35 am |
| skortan |
| Shellie - Colorado |
Bummed out when I got the email that SSJ&TAJ would be in Annapolis for Memorial Day. I was still holding out hope that they would be back @ Beaver Creek for the Blews, Brews and BBQ festival! :o(
Looks like Montana or bust!
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| 02-03-2012 8:26 am |
| Rick |
| Dublin, OH |
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Re Without Love, it's amazing to me how someone can hear the Aretha version and turn it into the masterpiece the Jukes play. By far the superior version to my ears.
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| 02-03-2012 6:48 am |
| canadian fan |
| Simcoe, Ontario |
Thank you to Southside Johnny and the other members of The Poor Fools for the great show in Kitchener last night. It was certainly the best performance by anyone in the venue.
Thanks also to Neal Pawley for talking to me for a few minutes after the show.
I also attended the Toronto show on Tuesday night and they were two nights that I will never forget. I've seen Southside several times over the last 30 years and he always puts on a great show. It has been nice to get the chance to see him up close twice this week in the smaller venues. Hopefully my wife and I will get a chance to see him a few more times this year. As I told Neal, we try to make it to as many shows as we can that are within a three hour drive from home.
I have the set lists from the stage from both the Toronto and Kitchener Shows. I will post them in a few days but as always Southside didn't stick to the planned setlist for very long.
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| 02-02-2012 10:07 pm |
| ScentLady |
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Okay, didn't know you couldn't post links using html.
Version 1 www.youtube.com
Original by Aretha www.youtube.com
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| 02-02-2012 10:01 pm |
| ScentLady |
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Was on You Tube looking for the performance of "Without Love" from the Old Grey Whistle Test & came across this version.
You can compare it to theoriginal by Aretha .
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| 02-02-2012 10:18 am |
| miss October |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Hi Fred,
We're still working out some communications issues between the two projects. If you want to make sure you get all of the info, please check both this site and the Poor Fools' new website at www.thepoorfools.com. If you "like" both bands' Facebook pages, you'll get updates from there, too.
Have fun on Saturday. If you happen to get a setlist, please post it here.
Thanks,
Carol
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| 02-02-2012 8:07 am |
| ghostrider |
| swamps of Jersey |
“He’s stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence, so we steal from each other’s bands occasionally.” SSJ in www.therecord.com
Most recently, Soozie Tyrell comes to mind. Now twice stolen if I'm reading things right. :=D
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| 02-02-2012 6:16 am |
| Fred Flinstone |
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Just saw in this morning's paper that John and the Fools will be in Pittsburgh Saturday night - actually just outside - at Moondogs in Blawnox. A very nice surprise but why not on the tour page? Most excellent, see you there!
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| 02-01-2012 6:01 pm |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
Dear Miss October.
Greg King is very nice to look at, but February is a short month, and my hair is amazing in the picture I sent you!
Love Hip.
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| 02-01-2012 5:58 pm |
| miss october |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Good call on both songs. There's a link to "Summer Evening" if you scroll down the page to the Homer setlist.
-- Carol
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| 02-01-2012 3:07 pm |
| MichelleMarie |
| Toronto, Canada |
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Can you imagine how great the show at Hughs Room will be next time when he brings the Jukes.
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| 02-01-2012 2:50 pm |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
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And I'm guessing that Summer Evening, not having been there, was the Greg Brown song.
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| 02-01-2012 2:42 pm |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
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@ pumseig. Cross That Line is an original Kazee/Lyon (or is it Lyon/Kazee?) ditty from the last CD, Pills & Ammo.
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| 02-01-2012 1:25 pm |
| Peaches |
| New York City |
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Seeing the same Question of the Week day after day is making me wonder if tomorrow, Ground Hogs Day, we will wake up to see the same Question...and, perhaps "I Got You Babe..." will be playing on the HomePage...
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| 02-01-2012 12:51 pm |
| pumseig |
| Syracuse |
Saw the fantastic show in Homer last weekend. Amazing! I've probably seen SSJ 20 times since the 70's- never realized until now what a great harp player he is. He's up there with the best. Anyways, looking at the setlist there are 2 songs that I just can't place and was wondering if anyone can tell me the original artist/writer of these:
Cross That Line
Summer Evening
Thanks!
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| 02-01-2012 12:09 pm |
| ohio cathy |
| canada |
Getting ready for the show tonight in Niagara on The Lake. I am extremely excited, and it will be great to see Johnny and all the other talented musicians in a smaller venue!
I called Hughs room earlier today, and the owner said it was a great show and alot of fun. He also said he wants to get SSJ back as soon as his schedule will allow.
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| 02-01-2012 11:51 am |
| BB |
| MN |
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While I am certainly not a Ticketmaster fan it completely escapes me how Bruce would prevent them from having system problems. Perhaps he should run things:-)
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| 02-01-2012 11:16 am |
| Peaches |
| New York City |
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RIP Don Cornelius
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| 02-01-2012 11:09 am |
| kmurph |
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Just read an article how ticketmaster once again botched security for the Springsteen tour. Blocks of tickets were purchased by suspicious groups. hmmmm Mr run his mouth about how one certain political party runs the country badly when they are in power can't even control distribution of his own concert tickets. Seems like a much smaller scale than the whole country. This sheet cracks me up. And yes I am going to a Meadowlands show. Great musician and song writer. Ok people, take a shot at saint Bruce come and get me ha.
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| 02-01-2012 9:11 am |
| Miss october |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Hi Canadian Fan,
Sorry, but I don't have that information about seating at the venue, and I'm not able to get that information from where I'm working today If you do find out before show time, would you please post it here?
Thanks!
-- Carol
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| 02-01-2012 8:29 am |
| Canadian Fan |
| Simcoe, Ontario |
Thank you Miss October for the update on Thursday night's Kitchener Show location. I looked at the new venue's website this morning and it appears that this venue doesn't have any seating for any concert -- just standing room. Is this correct? I have tickets and I will attend.
My wife and I attended last night's show at Hugh's Room in Toronto. IT WAS GREAT. It was nice to meet MichelleMarie and her husband Bill who were seated at the table beside ours. I was extremely impressed with Neal Pawley's ability to play so many instruments so well. His talents really showed last night and he was clearly happy to be there. He spent most of the night with a large smile on his face. He is amazingly talented.
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| 01-31-2012 2:02 pm |
| miss october |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Update re Thursday's show:
KITCHENER, ONTARIO VENUE CHANGE for THURSDAY, FEB. 2 show has been relocated to WAX NIGHTCLUB - 125 KING ST. WEST Kitchener (which is literally just around the corner!). All tickets already purchased will be honored - Doors @ 7:30pm, Show @ 8pm!
-- Carol
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| 01-31-2012 11:50 am |
| MichelleMarie |
| Toronto, Canada |
We are going to the show at Hugh's Room tonight in Toronto. If Johnny could do Walk Away Renee and dedicate to my husband Bill from Michelle that would be really great. This is his 60th birthday celebration and we have been married 37 years.
Sorry for the late request.
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| 01-31-2012 11:14 am |
| Gary |
| NJ again, formerly L.I. |
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mahdien: Eddie Manion and Stan Harrison both appear on Bruce's new album, as does Art Baron, Clark Gayton, Curt Ramm, and assorted others, but have no idea what that means regarding the tour or the Jukes, other that South's cryptic message in the article you mention.
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| 01-31-2012 9:14 am |
| stevep |
| St Pete, FL |
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St Pete show, getting psyched, hopefully wont be a frozen tundra like Clearwater last time thery were down here!
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| 01-31-2012 6:37 am |
| miss october |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Thanks, Tasha. That sounds like I missed a good one. Let's keep those setlists coming for the next few shows, please. Thanks!
-- Carol
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| 01-31-2012 4:02 am |
| mahdien |
| Hamburg, Germany |
“He’s stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence, so we steal from each other’s bands occasionally.” SSJ in www.therecord.com
Does anybody have further information?
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| 01-30-2012 4:36 pm |
| second_law |
| South Carolina |
Oh well, so much for the North Carolina show. I see Ziggy's in Winston Salem has updated the calendar and the FEb 14th is listed as "cancelled".
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| 01-30-2012 3:46 pm |
| Hip |
| Right here. |
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I love reading all these reviews and opinions. I'm following Southside vicariously through y'all. Super thanks to everyone who is putting up videos. I can almost feel young again!
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| 01-30-2012 2:35 pm |
| Tasha |
| Richmond, VA |
Here's the setlist from last night's show:
Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools
1/29/2012
German House Theater
Rochester, NY
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Love on the Wrong Side of Town
Postcards from Hell
Lead Me On
Tight Rope (Leon Russell) sung by Jeff Kazee
Let’s Have a Party
Strange, Strange Feeling
Done Home Girl/Something You Got
Can't Let Go
Beneath Still Waters
All the Way Home
My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)
Second Set
Key to the Highway
Johnny Too Bad
Bartender's Blues
Ophelia (featuring Southside on drums)
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight - kicked off by John Conte on vocals
Ain't No Free
The Fever
Stand By Me
I Don't Want to Go Home
Change is Gonna Come
Comes to Me Naturally
Rosa
Loaded
Umbrella in My Drink
Trapped Again
Encore
Dead Flowers
Summer Evening
Hearts of Stone
Band lineup
Southside Johnny
Jeff Kazee
Neal Pawley
John Conte
Tommy Byrnes
Fun show last night. It was the first time I have seen SSJ play the banjo. Instruments were being passed around even faster and more furiously than usual last night. It may have been my imagination but Tommy Byrnes seemed to be keeping a close eye on the Dude handling his guitar while he played piano.
We all had one eye on the windows as 3-4 inches of snow fell as the Fools played on. Southside mourned the loss of his Timberland boots , which fell apart after over a decade of globetrotting, leaving him to brave the snow in loafers. There is a French Canadian song, “Moi Mes Souliers ” about the relationship of a man and his shoes “I crossed on my hobnailed boots, The world and its misery.” Condolences to the Lead Singer.
On a happier note, Southside is always promoting the Wood brothers in his shows so I will do the same. East coast dates have been announced.
www.thewoodbros.com
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| 01-30-2012 9:47 am |
| ghostrider |
| swamps of Jersey |
I now have my review & photos of the Mahwah show posted on my blog - please stop in if you're so inclined:
ghostrider42.wordpress.com
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| 01-30-2012 12:59 am |
| Sidney Fields |
| The Boken |
The John Scher article mentions one of my greatest Jukes memories. In fact, it was the best, most memorable show
I've ever seen.
John Scher doesn't have the details exactly right.
His memory may have faded a bit.
Mine hasn't (at least not of this night).
Steven was playing with the Jukes for pretty much the entire show. And Robert Gordon was singing with them as well.
Springsteen & the rest of the E Street Band actually came out together at midnight for Havin' a Party and stayed for the rest of the set.
Afterwards we were half way back to our car when we saw people running back inside. Springsteen was doing his own set with the Jukes backing him...and the Capitol Theater was now only about half full. The horns & SSJ were wearing their Jukes jackets (the ones on the 2nd LP cover) and Johnny was directing the horns like an orchestra conductor. (A regular Mitch Miller he was).
They did Backstreets, Born to Run and the rock medley culminating with Quarter to 3. Wild night. Total euphoria...best New Year's Eve ever.
There's a bootleg floating around containing this part of the show as broadcast live on WNEW-FM. It's got the awful title "Southside Bruce & the E Street Jukes" on Seagull Records.
www.nj.com
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at the Capitol Theatre (Dec. 31, 1977): "Southside played so many great New Year’s Eve shows, but one in particular stands out. All the members of the E Street Band were in the audience, and one by one, they got on stage with the Jukes. Bruce said to me, ‘Would it be okay if we played a set?’ I went onstage and told the crowd, ‘We’ve got a surprise for you.’ We sent the security guys out into the streets of Passaic to tell people who’d left, ‘Come on back, the E Street Band is playing!’ "
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| 01-29-2012 4:50 pm |
| Gary |
| NJ again, formerly L.I. |
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BillDeS: Thanks for the heads up about the article on John Scher; brought back many memories of shows at the Capitol and Roosevelt Stadium.
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| 01-29-2012 2:09 pm |
| Big Al |
| London |
OK Hip.
I'm a bit late, but here we go.
1) Interviewing Southside in London in 2010. He was a great interviewee, a gentleman and he stole my copy of te NME.
2) It could be any one but "I Don't Want to go Home" was the one that started me off.
3) Easy; Shake 'Em Down". Drums, then piano, then horns on the intro. It's pedal to the metal time.
4) "On the Beach"
5) Many a happy night spent drinking single malt whisky listening to "The Fever".
BTW; Fifer, I'm from Fife but living in London now. Which part of the Kingdom are you from?
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| 01-29-2012 9:48 am |
| BillDeS |
| Monroe Twp NJ |
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Southside mentioned 3 times in today's Sunday Star Ledger. Once for the Teaneck show, twice in the article on John Scher.
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| 01-29-2012 9:23 am |
| susanh |
| North Jersey |
Really great show at the Berrie Center on Friday night!!
www.youtube.com
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| 01-29-2012 7:55 am |
| Miss October |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Here's the setlist from last night's show:
Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools
1/28/2012
Homer Center for the Arts
Homer, NY
All the Way Home
Cross That Line
Postcards from Hell
Lead Me On
Beneath Still Waters
Can't Let Go
Done Home Girl/Something You Got
Parchman Farm
Love on the Wrong Side of Town
Rosa
Second Set (which Johnny described just before intermission as "the same thing but backwards")
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Johnny Too Bad
Summer Evening
Ophelia
Bartender's Blues
Umbrella in My Drink
Ain't No Free
All Down the Line
The Fever
Just Across the Borderline/I Don't Want to Go Home
Comes to Me Naturally
Key to the Highway
Encore
My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)
Trapped Again
Band lineup
Southside Johnny
Jeff Kazee
Neal Pawley
John Conte
Tommy Byrnes
What a nice place the Homer Center for the Arts is. The staff and the audience were all real music people and they've got a great setup for the music that the Poor Fools are making. Johnny said from the stage what a pleasure it was to play there, even if getting there did involve a mishap with a U-Haul (which we never got the story on).
We got two new songs last night. Here are links:
Johnny Too Bad www.youtube.com
Summer Evening www.youtube.com
Jeff did a tremendous piano solo during "Something You Got" and Neal managed to play trombone and guitar during the same song twice (who thinks he can play them at the same time?). If Bruce thought it was a "shock to the system" to see Johnny play guitar at the Light of Day show, he should have seen Johnny singing and whaling on the drums last night. (Sorry, Ghostrider, maybe next time.)
Safe travels to everyone heading to the Rochester show tonight. I'm heading home, so if anyone wants to post the setlist, I'm sure we'd be interested in reading it.
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| 01-29-2012 7:35 am |
| ghostrider |
| swamps of Jersey |
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Ashley, thanks for that correction! So Johnny CAN do everything; I should have known. :=)
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| 01-29-2012 5:46 am |
| Dave D |
| Homer, NY |
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I caught Johnny & the Poor Fools last night at the Arts Center in Homer NY. For the last week I've been on a high thinking about all the great sounds from the old days of the Jukes. But that wasn't the show I got. Instead I have to thank Johnny & the guys for something that's made me as newly excited a fan as I was thirty years ago. The band looked like they were having a great time & I can't think of a group of musicians who deserved it more. In closing I just want to say that I wish the stage at the Arts Center was a little bigger for you. Sorry to crowd you & the Fools. I hope it won't stop you from coming back.
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| 01-29-2012 12:19 am |
| ashley |
| northampton u.k. |
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ghostrider, johnny played the drums at the turning point back in november.
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| 01-28-2012 4:55 pm |
| ghostrider |
| swamps of Jersey |
The Five Questions inspired me to pull my old review of that July 4th show out of my personal archives & upload it to my blog. Here's the link if anyone's interested in a little trip down memory lane -
ghostrider42.wordpress.com
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| 01-28-2012 3:16 pm |
| second_law |
| South Carolina |
That does not sound too promising for the North Carolina show. Perhaps I will live vicariously through my mother-in-law whom I convinced to go to see the Poor Fools tomorrow in Rochester.
The five question list:
1) I have a tie: As soon as Southisde said he was going to do the Men Without Women CD I bought tickets. I had not had the opportunity to see the band in some time and the feeling of my own mortality was weighing on me. As things transpired over the next few months, it felt more like a pilgrimage than anything else. We went up with a couple that had never seen the band and they were blown away. Just a great time. The other was back in the early 90s we were at the Nautica in Cleveland. We ran into a promoter from Impact he said Johnny has a new album coming out it is a M%&! F%$@ great album. Bumped into and talked to Pender and Labamba at that show.
2) Favorite album: The more I listen to I Don't Want to Go Home the Better It Gets. Too bad horn bands were declared dead at the time.
3) Speeding Ticket Song: Gotta to a Better Way Home (could have been the can't sit down song)
4) Can't sit down song: I am going to go off the charts and pick "Inside of Me" This was my favorite song on Little Steven's album. The month before this summer's Pony Show I was working out of the country and I walked to work every day. I played it either on the walk in or on the walk home, so pumped to Southside do it. This summer they did not disappoint. I listen to the XM broadcast of Inside of Me once a week.
5) The one too many: Working Too Hard. Great refrain.
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| 01-28-2012 2:40 pm |
| ghostrider |
| swamps of Jersey |
Yep, great show last night. I was waiting for Johnny to play drums, but I guess we'll never see that.
OK I'll play along with the questions here.
1) Most compelling memory - Southside & The Jukes, July 4, 2004, Stone Pony outdoor stage under the seaside stars & later the fireworks. La Bamba & Mark Pender in the band. Priceless. (Also my first ever Southside show - yes I was late to the party.)
2) Fave album - Better Days - so many great songs, & the title track has pulled me up from being down many a time.
3) Speeding tik song - Cross That Line - it just pumps me up.
4) Can't sit down - All Night Long - those chords hit me every time.
5) One too many - haven't had one in 30 years, but if I were in that state, I suspect it'd be Walk Away Renee, such an emotional song.
Musician I'd hang with - I'm tempted to say Steve Kilbey of The Church, because he's a madman & a genius, but I understand he's not always sociable. OTOH I've met Peter Koppes of The Church & he's personable, interesting, & easy to converse with, so that would probably be my final answer.
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| 01-28-2012 2:17 pm |
| miss October |
| Red Bank, NJ |
Here's the setlist from last night's show:
Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools
1/27/12
Sharp Theater at Berrie Center for the Performing Arts
Mahwah, NJ
Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
Postcards from Hell
Cross That Line
All the Way Home
Little Calcutta
Love on the Wrong Side of Town
Down Home Girl/Something You Got
Can't Let Go
Aint No Free
Beneath Still Waters
Bartender's Blues
Ophelia
The Fever
Spanish Harlem/I Don't Want to Go Home
Umbrella in My Drink
Rosa
Comes to Me Naturally
Strange Strange Feeling
Trapped Again
Encore
Walk away Renee
My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)
Band Lineup
Southside Johnny
Tommy Byrnes
John Conte
Neal Pawley
Jeff Kazee
I didn't catch who played what exactly, but everyone played everything. Southside even introduced Jeff as "Jeff Kazee, on everything. Like mayonnaise." Jeff even found two new ways to play the piano: using the lid as a percussion instrument and plucking the piano strings from the inside. Unless he was tuning it for them.
It was a small place filled with lots of enthusiastic fans (although not at typical frenzied Juke levels -- Southside correctly guessed that no alcohol was served on campus). From the looks of the lobby, it looked like everyone got something signed after the show.
So what's on for Homer tonight? Will they play "All the Way Homer," "I Don't Want to Go Homer," "Better Way Homer," or "My Old Kentucky Homer?". (It was a long drive.)
As for the North Carolina show, please remember that nothing is a definite until it's on the band's tour dates page. I wouldn't make any plans just yet.
-- Carol
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| 01-28-2012 12:47 pm |
| nwjersey guy |
| Great Meadows, NJ |
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Saw the Poor Fools in Mahwah last night. Great show. The Dude plays everything...and trombone. A very nice job on the mandolin. And they all play drums...very tastefully. A relaxed night. Lots of fun. I will see them again as soon as I can. They did a signing in the lobby after the show. Excellent Poor Fools t-shirts as well. Had to have one.
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| 01-28-2012 11:28 am |
| casinoman |
| Boston |
Beyond a quick word at some kind of "meet and greet" I'd probably rather not try quality bar time with any of my favorite performers. I'd rather not chance disappointment.
Did spend some time with the late great Country Dick Montana at a couple of Beat Farmer shows. It would be hard to top that experience and harder to explain it.
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