We may have only a few hours before the first reports from Oxford will come in, so maybe we could try to guess which songs EC&I will play there.
Although he played a lot of 'Deliveryman' - songs during the last concerts of the North- American tour, I think they are not that suitable for the Imposters. Maybe EC wants Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams to sing these songs.
I hope EC will play 'Burnt sugar is so bitter' or 'I'll cry until you suspect my tears' (played in concert with steve in 1999). And 'The judgement' or 'The other side of the same Town' seem also good choices for the Imposters.
Which songs will EC&I play in Oxford?
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Which songs will EC&I play in Oxford?
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Subject: fantastic
show was amazing you will love new songs
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Subject: fantastic
show was amazing you will love new songs
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From: FaveHour
Subject: Secondhand Oxford Report (SPOILERS)
Heard from Mike this morning, sounds like last night was great.
Elvis played two 50 minute sets as the one show, taking about an hour break in
between (but you got to stay put). Almost every song was unreleased, though a
few were familiar from years past. He only played 3 or 4 oldies.
Among the songs played were the ones premiered last month in the last few
EC/SN shows, (The Deliveryman, Nothing Clings Like Ivy, Monkey to Man, Needle
Time, Country Darkness), plus Unwanted Number, Burnt Sugar and Suspect My Tears
(those should please several of you, it pleases me too), Heart Shaped Bruise,
and a bunch of new ones, I don't know if I can recall all the titles (I was
driving as I heard all this info).. also The Judgment, and Either Side of the
Same Town....
new titles:
Bedlam
She Pulls Out the Pins
There's A Story in Her Voice
God, I can't remember anymore! I know there were some more. Anyway I wish I
had been there. Pete told them there were about 23 new songs being rehearsed,
don't know if that includes the ones we knew from before.
From: FaveHour
Subject: Secondhand Oxford Report (SPOILERS)
Heard from Mike this morning, sounds like last night was great.
Elvis played two 50 minute sets as the one show, taking about an hour break in
between (but you got to stay put). Almost every song was unreleased, though a
few were familiar from years past. He only played 3 or 4 oldies.
Among the songs played were the ones premiered last month in the last few
EC/SN shows, (The Deliveryman, Nothing Clings Like Ivy, Monkey to Man, Needle
Time, Country Darkness), plus Unwanted Number, Burnt Sugar and Suspect My Tears
(those should please several of you, it pleases me too), Heart Shaped Bruise,
and a bunch of new ones, I don't know if I can recall all the titles (I was
driving as I heard all this info).. also The Judgment, and Either Side of the
Same Town....
new titles:
Bedlam
She Pulls Out the Pins
There's A Story in Her Voice
God, I can't remember anymore! I know there were some more. Anyway I wish I
had been there. Pete told them there were about 23 new songs being rehearsed,
don't know if that includes the ones we knew from before.
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PLU Reporting in from a very lovely public library in very lovely
Oxford,
Mississippi.
Wonderful, fantastic, unbelievable, stunning, exciting and pretty darn
good show last night! Listers took up the first 2 rows at the stage
and
we exchanged wide-eyed glances of astonished pleasure throughout the 2
sets!
I've left the piece of paper with my scribbled set list at the hotel,
but
EC kept pretty much to the printed list at his feet, which was a
wonderful
thing to behold - 17 new songs!
Started with Delivery Man, which was grooving, then Unwanted Number,
which
really swung with the full band. Davey does a great bass-line
throughout
Block my Lips (with your kiss), which is an instant classic along the
lines of Tokyo Storm warning or Episode of Blonde. Country Darkness
seems
to me to be the new 'time to go to the restroom' song, but I seem to be
alone in that opinion! She Pulls Out the Pin refers to a hairpin, not
the
pin of a grenade! So many more! Bedlam is pretty rocking! Burnt
Sugar
is a wonderful song and the Judgement can sit side by side with Elvis's
best songs and hold it's head high!
It was fascinating to watch Pete from so close! There's time when he
has
no idea what EC's about to start playing and he looks in semi panic
between EC and Davey to get some sort of a hint! Early in the second
set,
EC started a song and looked to his lyric-stand only to find his lyric
folder missing, so he shouted "Where's my words" at Milo, who scuttled
off
next door to fetch 'em while the band went seamlessly (ish) into
Uncomplicated (I think! As I say, my notes are at the hotel!)
PLU Reporting in from a very lovely public library in very lovely
Oxford,
Mississippi.
Wonderful, fantastic, unbelievable, stunning, exciting and pretty darn
good show last night! Listers took up the first 2 rows at the stage
and
we exchanged wide-eyed glances of astonished pleasure throughout the 2
sets!
I've left the piece of paper with my scribbled set list at the hotel,
but
EC kept pretty much to the printed list at his feet, which was a
wonderful
thing to behold - 17 new songs!
Started with Delivery Man, which was grooving, then Unwanted Number,
which
really swung with the full band. Davey does a great bass-line
throughout
Block my Lips (with your kiss), which is an instant classic along the
lines of Tokyo Storm warning or Episode of Blonde. Country Darkness
seems
to me to be the new 'time to go to the restroom' song, but I seem to be
alone in that opinion! She Pulls Out the Pin refers to a hairpin, not
the
pin of a grenade! So many more! Bedlam is pretty rocking! Burnt
Sugar
is a wonderful song and the Judgement can sit side by side with Elvis's
best songs and hold it's head high!
It was fascinating to watch Pete from so close! There's time when he
has
no idea what EC's about to start playing and he looks in semi panic
between EC and Davey to get some sort of a hint! Early in the second
set,
EC started a song and looked to his lyric-stand only to find his lyric
folder missing, so he shouted "Where's my words" at Milo, who scuttled
off
next door to fetch 'em while the band went seamlessly (ish) into
Uncomplicated (I think! As I say, my notes are at the hotel!)
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Here's my story on the Oxford gig:
The club, as you all have seen was very small. I stood in front of the sound board, back of the crowd, and I was only 8 or so deep. The crowd was clearly made up of longtime and hardcore fans; I highly doubt there were many casual fans there at all.
EC and the Imposters took the stage through a side door that led to the sidewalk outside. The sound was shaky the first 2 or 3 songs, and Elvis' voice was a little raspy for that same time period. Once all the adjustments were made, it sounded fantastic. They played all new songs in the first set, until EC got his Telecaster and played Uncomplicated. The incident referenced above, where the lyric sheet was missing, he played Chelsea. After an hour and fifteen minutes or so, Elvis said they would be taking a short break and they left through the same door.
Upon return 40 or so minutes later, Elvis announced they'd be playing most of the new songs again in order "play them properly". The band did, and at the end of the night Elvis said something to the effect that he would be rewarding us for out patience and they rocked out three classics at the end. The older material sounded great, but I think they were just bones thrown out there because he kind of had to. He did take one request though, which was Green Shirt, which I had never personally heard played live. He said something like 'good choice' after it was done. Older material played (I don't have the order written down- these were interspersed throughout the new stuff).
Uncomplicated
Green Shirt
Radio Radio
What's So Funny About PLU
Watching the Detectives
I Hope You're Happy Now
Less Than Zero
I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
Pump It Up
Chelsea
Of the new stuff, as I posted before, it sounds like tough R and B, very much in the mode of the released version of The Judgement by Solomon Burke. Even old stuff like Unwanted Number got the R and B/Stax soul treatment. I also enjoyed Heart Shaped Bruise, She Pulls Out the Pins, Country Darkness, The Delivery Man, Bedlam, and one other that was pretty psychadelic that I couldn't catch a name to.
There was no meet and greet (due to the constraints of the venue, i.e., no secure area to do so), but the next morning my girlfriend and I were in Hot Dog Records buying the British Sea Power album and who should wander in but Steve! He wasn't too talkative, so I didn't push the point, but he did sign my ticket stubs and say that they enjoyed playing in the small club.
An exhausting but great experience. I think we Oxford folks are lucky, because we got two shows- I'm not sure why they divided the shows in Memphis and not here, but I'm not complaining. Can't wait to hear how last night's show went.
The club, as you all have seen was very small. I stood in front of the sound board, back of the crowd, and I was only 8 or so deep. The crowd was clearly made up of longtime and hardcore fans; I highly doubt there were many casual fans there at all.
EC and the Imposters took the stage through a side door that led to the sidewalk outside. The sound was shaky the first 2 or 3 songs, and Elvis' voice was a little raspy for that same time period. Once all the adjustments were made, it sounded fantastic. They played all new songs in the first set, until EC got his Telecaster and played Uncomplicated. The incident referenced above, where the lyric sheet was missing, he played Chelsea. After an hour and fifteen minutes or so, Elvis said they would be taking a short break and they left through the same door.
Upon return 40 or so minutes later, Elvis announced they'd be playing most of the new songs again in order "play them properly". The band did, and at the end of the night Elvis said something to the effect that he would be rewarding us for out patience and they rocked out three classics at the end. The older material sounded great, but I think they were just bones thrown out there because he kind of had to. He did take one request though, which was Green Shirt, which I had never personally heard played live. He said something like 'good choice' after it was done. Older material played (I don't have the order written down- these were interspersed throughout the new stuff).
Uncomplicated
Green Shirt
Radio Radio
What's So Funny About PLU
Watching the Detectives
I Hope You're Happy Now
Less Than Zero
I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
Pump It Up
Chelsea
Of the new stuff, as I posted before, it sounds like tough R and B, very much in the mode of the released version of The Judgement by Solomon Burke. Even old stuff like Unwanted Number got the R and B/Stax soul treatment. I also enjoyed Heart Shaped Bruise, She Pulls Out the Pins, Country Darkness, The Delivery Man, Bedlam, and one other that was pretty psychadelic that I couldn't catch a name to.
There was no meet and greet (due to the constraints of the venue, i.e., no secure area to do so), but the next morning my girlfriend and I were in Hot Dog Records buying the British Sea Power album and who should wander in but Steve! He wasn't too talkative, so I didn't push the point, but he did sign my ticket stubs and say that they enjoyed playing in the small club.
An exhausting but great experience. I think we Oxford folks are lucky, because we got two shows- I'm not sure why they divided the shows in Memphis and not here, but I'm not complaining. Can't wait to hear how last night's show went.
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-dave w.
A correction from [earlier ] post - the sets were 70 minutes long
each.
Burnt Sugar's arrangement is now uptempo and has a slightly driving
beat.
Pete's favorite song at the moment? Country Comfort. My favorite? It's
a hard one but at the moment, I think that Nothing Clings Like Ivy is
sticking the best (this is definitely a Deliveryman song, some of the
others are Monkey To Man has a riff partially stolen from Heart Full of Soul by The Yardbirds.
We got one more new song last night - "In Another Room", not to be
confused with Girl In the Other Room. It was quite pop/rocky. He only
played it once, IIRC. Everything else we've heard four times (with
maybe an exception or two).
The song "The Deliveryman" is the words that he read from the stage
of the Ryman set to music (Abel was able, etc) and it's probably the
closest thing that resembles "southern roots music". There are poppy
things (something with the title along the lines of "That's Not What
They Call Love", although I can't remember the exact title - this was
the song that he didn't have the lyrics to and had to switch gears
on), angry political things (Button My Lip has a 15 Petals herky jerky
rhythm and some angry screaming), and an odd, hard-to-classify song,
Needle Time, which starts out kind of fast then slows down to a
heroin-druggy sort of semi chorus of the words "Needle Time" repeated
over and over (I might be projecting from the title though) and other
interesting musical choices that escape me right now, as I'm typing
under pressure of a work deadline.
No "I Dreamed of My Old Lover" or "Omnie Wise". The Deliveryman songs,
as presented this weekend are NOT folky or country to my ears. Even
heart Shaped Bruise was tuned into uptempoish "country rock". PLU
liked it, me not so much.
Basically, Elvis did three sets each day, the soundcheck being
virtually a run-through of all of the songs, sometimes with vocals and
sometimes not. It was great sitting outside hearing the songs for the
first time on the first day. Surprise of the soundcheck? An almost
note perfect "Oh Well" - no, not *his* Oh Well, but the Peter Green Oh
Well, Pt. Two. It was only the riff repeated a few times, but Horan
suddenly got his geek button pushed.
Yes, he voice was a bit shot in places and sometimes he and Steve
seemed like they might be playing in different keys during some of the
more complicated songs, plus, he was having a slight pitch problem
with his voice occasionally. Basically though, this was all the sort
of music that everyone's been waiting for. Burnt Sugar sounded good
uptempo, which surprised me. Maybe he needs to do it the way he's
doing it live and also do the Carole King ballady version as a b-side.
Well, that's all for now. I'm sure that others will fill in the blanks
later.
Oh yeah, the covers that I can remember are (in no order)
Uncomplicated, I Hope You're Happy Now, PLU, Pump It Up, You Belong To
Me, Green Shirt, Chelsea, Red Shoes, Beyond Belief, Detectives, and I
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down. I might be missing something though.
And finally, they're going to Clarksdale probably next week for an
overnight to record at a studio down there, and then he's definitely
going to record at Ardent around the time of the Memphis shows (I
guess with Jim Dickenson). If he's not careful, he's going to brush
against Chilton and Big Star.
-dave w.
A correction from [earlier ] post - the sets were 70 minutes long
each.
Burnt Sugar's arrangement is now uptempo and has a slightly driving
beat.
Pete's favorite song at the moment? Country Comfort. My favorite? It's
a hard one but at the moment, I think that Nothing Clings Like Ivy is
sticking the best (this is definitely a Deliveryman song, some of the
others are Monkey To Man has a riff partially stolen from Heart Full of Soul by The Yardbirds.
We got one more new song last night - "In Another Room", not to be
confused with Girl In the Other Room. It was quite pop/rocky. He only
played it once, IIRC. Everything else we've heard four times (with
maybe an exception or two).
The song "The Deliveryman" is the words that he read from the stage
of the Ryman set to music (Abel was able, etc) and it's probably the
closest thing that resembles "southern roots music". There are poppy
things (something with the title along the lines of "That's Not What
They Call Love", although I can't remember the exact title - this was
the song that he didn't have the lyrics to and had to switch gears
on), angry political things (Button My Lip has a 15 Petals herky jerky
rhythm and some angry screaming), and an odd, hard-to-classify song,
Needle Time, which starts out kind of fast then slows down to a
heroin-druggy sort of semi chorus of the words "Needle Time" repeated
over and over (I might be projecting from the title though) and other
interesting musical choices that escape me right now, as I'm typing
under pressure of a work deadline.
No "I Dreamed of My Old Lover" or "Omnie Wise". The Deliveryman songs,
as presented this weekend are NOT folky or country to my ears. Even
heart Shaped Bruise was tuned into uptempoish "country rock". PLU
liked it, me not so much.
Basically, Elvis did three sets each day, the soundcheck being
virtually a run-through of all of the songs, sometimes with vocals and
sometimes not. It was great sitting outside hearing the songs for the
first time on the first day. Surprise of the soundcheck? An almost
note perfect "Oh Well" - no, not *his* Oh Well, but the Peter Green Oh
Well, Pt. Two. It was only the riff repeated a few times, but Horan
suddenly got his geek button pushed.
Yes, he voice was a bit shot in places and sometimes he and Steve
seemed like they might be playing in different keys during some of the
more complicated songs, plus, he was having a slight pitch problem
with his voice occasionally. Basically though, this was all the sort
of music that everyone's been waiting for. Burnt Sugar sounded good
uptempo, which surprised me. Maybe he needs to do it the way he's
doing it live and also do the Carole King ballady version as a b-side.
Well, that's all for now. I'm sure that others will fill in the blanks
later.
Oh yeah, the covers that I can remember are (in no order)
Uncomplicated, I Hope You're Happy Now, PLU, Pump It Up, You Belong To
Me, Green Shirt, Chelsea, Red Shoes, Beyond Belief, Detectives, and I
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down. I might be missing something though.
And finally, they're going to Clarksdale probably next week for an
overnight to record at a studio down there, and then he's definitely
going to record at Ardent around the time of the Memphis shows (I
guess with Jim Dickenson). If he's not careful, he's going to brush
against Chilton and Big Star.
Saturday Night Setlist
Set 1:
Waiting for the End of the World
You Belong to Me
Burnt Sugar
Suspect My Tears
The Name of This Thing is Not Love
Heart Shape Bruise
Button My Lip
Chelsea/ Help Me
Monkey to Man
Delivery Man
Country Darkness
Bedlam
She's Pulling Out the Pin
Needle Time
Uncomplicated
Moods For Moderns (Inst.) w/ Shotgun
Set 2:
I Hope You're Happy Now
Red Shoes
Either Side of the Same Town
ICSUFFD
The Judgement
There's a Story In Your Voice
Unwanted Number
Nothing Clings Like Ivy
Monkey to Man
Needle Time
Beyond Belief
Bedlam
She's Pulling Out the Pin
Delivery Man
Country Darkness
In Another Room
PLU
Mystery Dance
Radio Radio
Pump It Up
Waiting for the End of the World
You Belong to Me
Burnt Sugar
Suspect My Tears
The Name of This Thing is Not Love
Heart Shape Bruise
Button My Lip
Chelsea/ Help Me
Monkey to Man
Delivery Man
Country Darkness
Bedlam
She's Pulling Out the Pin
Needle Time
Uncomplicated
Moods For Moderns (Inst.) w/ Shotgun
Set 2:
I Hope You're Happy Now
Red Shoes
Either Side of the Same Town
ICSUFFD
The Judgement
There's a Story In Your Voice
Unwanted Number
Nothing Clings Like Ivy
Monkey to Man
Needle Time
Beyond Belief
Bedlam
She's Pulling Out the Pin
Delivery Man
Country Darkness
In Another Room
PLU
Mystery Dance
Radio Radio
Pump It Up
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2004-04-03: Oxford, MS, Proud Larry's - with the Imposters
-thanks to Mike Bodayle
2004-04-02: Oxford, MS, Proud Larry's - with the Imposters
-thanks to Dave Weil
2004-04-03: Oxford, MS, Proud Larry's - with the Imposters
-thanks to Mike Bodayle
2004-04-02: Oxford, MS, Proud Larry's - with the Imposters
-thanks to Dave Weil
other listserv accounts ( edited) -
Back home after great weekend in Oxford. What a great little
town.
Central square with lots of cool shops and restaurants. You couldn't
hardly
walk down a sidewalk or go in a restaurant without seeing EC or one or
two
of the Impostors. All (except EC) were riding bikes all over town.
We had late Saturday breakfast in a little bakery
off
the square and Pete and Davey were at a nearby table and were very
relaxed
and chatty. They got done and went out and got on their bikes and rode
off
towards square. Davey has adopted EC's ridiculous straw hats.
Second show was hands down the better show. EC much more
relaxed
and the band were more sure-footed going through all the new (!!)
songs. EC
in black suit and psychedelic shirt sans necktie both nights. There was
no
camera restrictions posted or enforced. Dave and Mike got scads of
pics. I
got several myself. Cool pic of EC's spangly boot on a guitar pedal
next to
the setlist. You can not *imagine* how close we were to the stage.
Riser
only about 15 inches high. Could have leaned over and touched EC at any
time. Did lean over and touch the acoustic "ELVIS"-labelled guitar on
its
stand when no one was on stage. Davey's background vocals add so much
the
few times they're used. Loved to see him up close. He gets those eyes
closed and his eyebrows raise and the corners of his mouth point down
and
he just rocks. Also a cool $10 show print in black and purple with the
close-up photo from the inside cover of North ("LIVE REHEARSAL FOR THE
SWEET TEA SESSIONS"). Steve in heavy Professor Frink mode with tons of
knob
twiddling. Sometimes good, sometimes distracting.
"Monkey To Man" is the new call and response songs. Second
night
crowd started chiming in on Davey's response vocal and EC milked it and
seemed pleased to have discovered a crowd-pleaser. "She's Pulling Out
the
Pin" seemed written on piano as it was full of difficult
Bacharach-esque
chord changes. My favorite is the new full band arrangement of
"Unwanted
Number". Consistently ended with PLU/Radio/PIU and tiny club atmosphere
really brought out the best of these and the other classics played. EC
seemed really pleased second night. Couple guitar notes - played
hand-over
the fretboard to run down a bass line in one of the old songs, forget
which
ones. Also played it behind his head a la Hendrix a few times at end of
songs.
Sorry for the rambling report. There will be more and better
ones.
Slo and Jill still there and everyone else travelling. I so seldom get
to
give a timely report I went ahead and just gave a little sketch.
Memphis
shows may be great too, but there's no way you'd get the feeling of
living
in a small town with a resident rock band. Oxford was a
once-in-five-lifetimes event.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
My husband and I attended the Saturday show in Oxford and it was great.
Well worth the 6 hour drive. Elvis and the band were everywhere. We saw
Elvis twice around the square and Steve was sitting on the balcony of
the bookstore across the street from Proud Larry’s before the show.
We lined up at the club between 4 and 5 and had a nice couple of hours
with the others.
The club was as advertised, with the stage raised just about a foot and
all listers on the front row about 3 feet from Elvis.
I had not heard the new songs that Elvis and Steve did on the west
coast shows, so I can’t remark on the differences with the band
arrangements, but the new songs were all very memorable. I especially liked The
Name of This Thing is Not Love, Needle Time, and Country Darkness.
These had a very bluesy feel. Button My Lip, Monkey to Man, and Bedlam
seemed more like the WIWC songs.
I guess if you could have been in Oxford from Tuesday to Sunday this
week, it was like EC fan heaven. The town is very small, but has trendy
shops because of the large University. The band was ubiquitous, you
could barely turn around without running into one of them. And the show was
intimate and full of new great songs.
Finally, L. remarked on Elvis’ outfit, but I have to add that the
shirt was pink and yellow with a wavy pattern and my husband said it
looked like something from Austin Powers. Elvis also had on the shiny
boots and a pendant with a four-leaf clover. While we were waiting outside
before the sound check, Elvis was over by the courthouse, behind the
confederate soldier statue, talking on the phone. He kept looking around
nervously that people were going to bother him. We all speculated he
was talking to Diana.
Back home after great weekend in Oxford. What a great little
town.
Central square with lots of cool shops and restaurants. You couldn't
hardly
walk down a sidewalk or go in a restaurant without seeing EC or one or
two
of the Impostors. All (except EC) were riding bikes all over town.
We had late Saturday breakfast in a little bakery
off
the square and Pete and Davey were at a nearby table and were very
relaxed
and chatty. They got done and went out and got on their bikes and rode
off
towards square. Davey has adopted EC's ridiculous straw hats.
Second show was hands down the better show. EC much more
relaxed
and the band were more sure-footed going through all the new (!!)
songs. EC
in black suit and psychedelic shirt sans necktie both nights. There was
no
camera restrictions posted or enforced. Dave and Mike got scads of
pics. I
got several myself. Cool pic of EC's spangly boot on a guitar pedal
next to
the setlist. You can not *imagine* how close we were to the stage.
Riser
only about 15 inches high. Could have leaned over and touched EC at any
time. Did lean over and touch the acoustic "ELVIS"-labelled guitar on
its
stand when no one was on stage. Davey's background vocals add so much
the
few times they're used. Loved to see him up close. He gets those eyes
closed and his eyebrows raise and the corners of his mouth point down
and
he just rocks. Also a cool $10 show print in black and purple with the
close-up photo from the inside cover of North ("LIVE REHEARSAL FOR THE
SWEET TEA SESSIONS"). Steve in heavy Professor Frink mode with tons of
knob
twiddling. Sometimes good, sometimes distracting.
"Monkey To Man" is the new call and response songs. Second
night
crowd started chiming in on Davey's response vocal and EC milked it and
seemed pleased to have discovered a crowd-pleaser. "She's Pulling Out
the
Pin" seemed written on piano as it was full of difficult
Bacharach-esque
chord changes. My favorite is the new full band arrangement of
"Unwanted
Number". Consistently ended with PLU/Radio/PIU and tiny club atmosphere
really brought out the best of these and the other classics played. EC
seemed really pleased second night. Couple guitar notes - played
hand-over
the fretboard to run down a bass line in one of the old songs, forget
which
ones. Also played it behind his head a la Hendrix a few times at end of
songs.
Sorry for the rambling report. There will be more and better
ones.
Slo and Jill still there and everyone else travelling. I so seldom get
to
give a timely report I went ahead and just gave a little sketch.
Memphis
shows may be great too, but there's no way you'd get the feeling of
living
in a small town with a resident rock band. Oxford was a
once-in-five-lifetimes event.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
My husband and I attended the Saturday show in Oxford and it was great.
Well worth the 6 hour drive. Elvis and the band were everywhere. We saw
Elvis twice around the square and Steve was sitting on the balcony of
the bookstore across the street from Proud Larry’s before the show.
We lined up at the club between 4 and 5 and had a nice couple of hours
with the others.
The club was as advertised, with the stage raised just about a foot and
all listers on the front row about 3 feet from Elvis.
I had not heard the new songs that Elvis and Steve did on the west
coast shows, so I can’t remark on the differences with the band
arrangements, but the new songs were all very memorable. I especially liked The
Name of This Thing is Not Love, Needle Time, and Country Darkness.
These had a very bluesy feel. Button My Lip, Monkey to Man, and Bedlam
seemed more like the WIWC songs.
I guess if you could have been in Oxford from Tuesday to Sunday this
week, it was like EC fan heaven. The town is very small, but has trendy
shops because of the large University. The band was ubiquitous, you
could barely turn around without running into one of them. And the show was
intimate and full of new great songs.
Finally, L. remarked on Elvis’ outfit, but I have to add that the
shirt was pink and yellow with a wavy pattern and my husband said it
looked like something from Austin Powers. Elvis also had on the shiny
boots and a pendant with a four-leaf clover. While we were waiting outside
before the sound check, Elvis was over by the courthouse, behind the
confederate soldier statue, talking on the phone. He kept looking around
nervously that people were going to bother him. We all speculated he
was talking to Diana.
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These are questions for those who were there in Oxford (or have heard the new songs).
Which of the new songs do you think are for 'the Deliveryman-project' ?
Do you think that the new Imposters album is the Deliveryman-album?
Or is EC working on two projects at the same time?
Which of the new songs do you think are for 'the Deliveryman-project' ?
Do you think that the new Imposters album is the Deliveryman-album?
Or is EC working on two projects at the same time?
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
Its hard to say which songs were specifically for 'Delivery Man' because in a live setting its hard to hear words and Elvis wasn't really elaborating on the subjects of the songs. Because they all had a general 'sound' in common, its possible all the songs are for an album that is either loosely themed or perhaps the Delivery Man stuff will make up a suite of songs within the context of a traditional album. Or maybe he's dropped the 'concept' of the Delivery Man altogether and is going to let the songs stand on their own.
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17 New Songs
Here are the songs performed - I'll try and do a set list later:
1. The Delivery Man
2. Unwanted Number
3. Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
4. Suspect My Tears
5. The Judgment
6. Button My Lip
7. Heart Shaped Bruise
8. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
9. Country Darkness
10. Bedlam
11. She's Pulling Out The Pin
12. Monkey To Man
13. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
14. Needle Time
15. Either Side Of The Same Town
16. There's A Story in Your Voice
This above was actually the set list for the first of the four sets
with
Chelsea and Green Shirt thrown in. Other than that he exactly followed
his
set list which I copied the above from.
17. In Another Room (played second night only)
The other oldies done were: Happy Now, Can't Stand, Zero, Chelsea (w/
Help
Me the second night), End of the World, You Belong and the closers
PLU/RR/PIU with M-Dance stuck in there the second night.
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It was the song, There's a Story In Your Voice that was the song he
had to stop because he didn't have the lyrics on the stand. That's
probably the one rave-up of the bunch, and it's got a great hook. In
fact, after he did it, he cocked an eyebrow at the crowd and said,
"Ahhhh, you *like* that one, did ya?"
He was definitely trying to gauge reaction.
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I never thought I'd say that I was too close to get good pictures at
an Elvis show. It was so unnerving to try to keep the flash from
hitting him in the face (and to keep from looking that I was too busy
fiddling with the cameras that I wasn't listening to the songs), that
I didn't even bother taking pictures the second night. I might still
have two or three interesting shots left, but what's at the site are
just about it for me. Plenty of people were taking pictures though, so
some good ones are bound to surface. Mike's got some really nice ones
up there.
The other problem was the damn mic stand that blocked my view of him
most of the time. Not bad for me, but bad for pics. And I kept wanting
to tell Elvis, "Hey, MOVE! I can't see Pete". So, I decided to move to
the left side right in front of Steve, so that I could see PT (I was
where Mike's shots vantage points were). That put me 8 feet from him
instead of 5.
BTW, funniest thing the second night was seeing Milo bopping wih a
smile on his face to Radio Radio and Pump It Up at the end of the
second show. He looked just like a fan.
Guitar geek stuff. Here's the list of guitars:
The Gibson Super 400.
The "Other Gibson". I *think* it's a 350TD
The blonde Telecaster (not ash, maybe oak)? Is that the one that
vanished in Australia and was returned to him?
These are the only three guitars used on the first night.
On the second night, the oddly greenish Jazzmaster made an appearance,
as well as the Magnatone, which still has the tag.
The "Elvis" John Lennon acoustic, the J-65, was on stage both nights
but was never touched.
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Scarlet Tide *was* at the bottom of the list Friday night. I
have
a picture of it. I also thought "grenade" when I heard "Pulling out the
Pin" the first time.
I also don't think anyone has mentioned that tickets were
readily
available at the door both nights. Proud Larry's kept 40 (I heard)
tickets
for walk-up sales! They did let everyone already holding a ticket or a
will-call receipt in first and only sold tickets after we were in.
An earlier post mentioned that it was mostly a hardcore
audience.
My impression was that there were a lot of locals that were casual fans
at
best. How else do explain people sitting at the bar or in the back room
with no sightline and smoking and chatting the entire time. Bar noise
wasn't noticeable except when EC tried to introduce songs. It was the
youngest aged crowd I've seen in a *long* time. Lots of college age
folks,
many seeing EC for the first time.
17 New Songs
Here are the songs performed - I'll try and do a set list later:
1. The Delivery Man
2. Unwanted Number
3. Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
4. Suspect My Tears
5. The Judgment
6. Button My Lip
7. Heart Shaped Bruise
8. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
9. Country Darkness
10. Bedlam
11. She's Pulling Out The Pin
12. Monkey To Man
13. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
14. Needle Time
15. Either Side Of The Same Town
16. There's A Story in Your Voice
This above was actually the set list for the first of the four sets
with
Chelsea and Green Shirt thrown in. Other than that he exactly followed
his
set list which I copied the above from.
17. In Another Room (played second night only)
The other oldies done were: Happy Now, Can't Stand, Zero, Chelsea (w/
Help
Me the second night), End of the World, You Belong and the closers
PLU/RR/PIU with M-Dance stuck in there the second night.
------------------------------------------------------------
It was the song, There's a Story In Your Voice that was the song he
had to stop because he didn't have the lyrics on the stand. That's
probably the one rave-up of the bunch, and it's got a great hook. In
fact, after he did it, he cocked an eyebrow at the crowd and said,
"Ahhhh, you *like* that one, did ya?"
He was definitely trying to gauge reaction.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I never thought I'd say that I was too close to get good pictures at
an Elvis show. It was so unnerving to try to keep the flash from
hitting him in the face (and to keep from looking that I was too busy
fiddling with the cameras that I wasn't listening to the songs), that
I didn't even bother taking pictures the second night. I might still
have two or three interesting shots left, but what's at the site are
just about it for me. Plenty of people were taking pictures though, so
some good ones are bound to surface. Mike's got some really nice ones
up there.
The other problem was the damn mic stand that blocked my view of him
most of the time. Not bad for me, but bad for pics. And I kept wanting
to tell Elvis, "Hey, MOVE! I can't see Pete". So, I decided to move to
the left side right in front of Steve, so that I could see PT (I was
where Mike's shots vantage points were). That put me 8 feet from him
instead of 5.
BTW, funniest thing the second night was seeing Milo bopping wih a
smile on his face to Radio Radio and Pump It Up at the end of the
second show. He looked just like a fan.
Guitar geek stuff. Here's the list of guitars:
The Gibson Super 400.
The "Other Gibson". I *think* it's a 350TD
The blonde Telecaster (not ash, maybe oak)? Is that the one that
vanished in Australia and was returned to him?
These are the only three guitars used on the first night.
On the second night, the oddly greenish Jazzmaster made an appearance,
as well as the Magnatone, which still has the tag.
The "Elvis" John Lennon acoustic, the J-65, was on stage both nights
but was never touched.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scarlet Tide *was* at the bottom of the list Friday night. I
have
a picture of it. I also thought "grenade" when I heard "Pulling out the
Pin" the first time.
I also don't think anyone has mentioned that tickets were
readily
available at the door both nights. Proud Larry's kept 40 (I heard)
tickets
for walk-up sales! They did let everyone already holding a ticket or a
will-call receipt in first and only sold tickets after we were in.
An earlier post mentioned that it was mostly a hardcore
audience.
My impression was that there were a lot of locals that were casual fans
at
best. How else do explain people sitting at the bar or in the back room
with no sightline and smoking and chatting the entire time. Bar noise
wasn't noticeable except when EC tried to introduce songs. It was the
youngest aged crowd I've seen in a *long* time. Lots of college age
folks,
many seeing EC for the first time.
HOLY MOTHER OF GODS.
walk-up sales? if i had been there, i might have purchased a ticket at the door???????????
WAH!!!!!
well, shit.
no way i could have made it. i shall console myself w/ that, 'cause that's all i got to console myself with.
that, and my cds. and a teddy bear.
WAH!!!!!
*sniff*
walk-up sales? if i had been there, i might have purchased a ticket at the door???????????
WAH!!!!!
well, shit.
no way i could have made it. i shall console myself w/ that, 'cause that's all i got to console myself with.
that, and my cds. and a teddy bear.
WAH!!!!!
*sniff*
... name the stars and constellations,
count the cars and watch the seasons....
count the cars and watch the seasons....
Elvis at Oxford
The accounts of the Oxford shows are great. I really enjoyed reading them. You can feel the excitement in those reports sharing the knowledge that you've been at a very special event. Elvis fans are the best fans no doubt about it. And as far as EC goes, I don't care what anybody says he loves playing an electric guitar and singing in a combo best. And we do too.
Okay to the cux of the matter, did anybody record the shows?
PS. I went to see 'the Rutles' the other night and Wreckless Eric was support act. Had an interesting chat he sounds exacly the same but he looks old and fat.
All the best,
Neil.
Okay to the cux of the matter, did anybody record the shows?
PS. I went to see 'the Rutles' the other night and Wreckless Eric was support act. Had an interesting chat he sounds exacly the same but he looks old and fat.
All the best,
Neil.