peterwales
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« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2007, 08:39:14 AM » |
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Great review of Roundhouse gig in today's Guardian.
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Anne T
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« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2007, 09:30:34 AM » |
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No, but we are going to Basingstoke tomorrow as a birthday surprise for Dennis, so if anyone else is going hope to see you there.  My daughter and I will also be there as a birthday un-surprise for me - we're in row n in the circle if you want to wave at us! |
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2007, 10:22:56 AM » |
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Anyone going to Cambridge on Thursday???
Yep. As long as I don't get stuck on the M25 car park on the way! |
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Ollie
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« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2007, 11:32:22 AM » |
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Anyone going to Cambridge on Thursday???
Yep. As long as I don't get stuck on the M25 car park on the way! I'll be there too. |
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"Tradition must be respected, convention can be broken; but only when you know which is which."
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« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2007, 02:57:03 PM » |
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We were going to the Liverpool gig, but then found we couldn't go (Chris's fault... grrrr!), so we had to sell our (2nd-row) tickets to someone else. Really disappointing, as we'd been looking forward to it.
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giottoscircle (Robert)
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« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2007, 04:45:09 PM » |
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I presume that everyone has seen the link on Beeswing to a podcast of a gig by the band in June in USA. It is a full recording (about 2 hours) and is both easy to download and legal
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Ollie
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« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2007, 05:28:57 PM » |
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Do you mean the Live in Washington DC one? If so, I believe Bob Barrows fiddled about with it a bit and made it more listenable (ie, louder!) and posted it somewhere on here., but I can't find it.
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« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2007, 07:53:03 PM » |
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I had a copy of it up on savefile, but it got deleted due to lack of activity. Shoot me an IM if you's like me to upload it again.
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Philip W
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« Reply #29 on: October 24, 2007, 09:22:15 PM » |
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Anyone going to Cambridge on Thursday???
Yes, me too. Hope he does "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". Never heard him sing that: I didn't realise it was in his current repertoire till someone mentioned it earlier. |
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LC
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« Reply #30 on: October 24, 2007, 10:27:43 PM » |
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Hope he does "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". Never heard him sing that: I didn't realise it was in his current repertoire till someone mentioned it earlier.
I don't want to claim credit for this  ...but at the Cropredy signing session I asked him if he would sing this at the London show, as I had persuaded friends in the US to go to one of his solo shows there earlier in the year and he had played it then, much to my amazement (it was their first RT concert!). He said he didn't know as this was a band tour. When I mentioned that he usually plays a couple of solo songs as well, he just smiled and replied, "Well, we'll see." I had no real expectation that he would play it, so was thrilled when I read on here last month that he had played it at the Vancouver show. I still did not want to hope too much, for fear of disappointment, so hearing it on Saturday night was a special moment in a great concert. I hope you get to hear it tomorrow. BTW, does anyone know if he played it much at all before this year? |
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Delfini (Diane)
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« Reply #31 on: October 24, 2007, 10:38:41 PM » |
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Could this be a TAW convention at an RT gig???
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and all I really know is that kindness is better than any sort of terror, any kind of spite (Martyn Joseph)
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Ollie
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« Reply #32 on: October 24, 2007, 10:41:48 PM » |
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Could this be a TAW convention at an RT gig???
I don't see why not  |
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« Reply #33 on: October 24, 2007, 11:03:43 PM » |
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BTW, does anyone know if he played it much at all before this year?
Yes, regularly at his solo shows - not quite so regularly at band gigs - because he only sings it solo, and there's usually only a two-number segment in the middle where the rest of the band go off for a piddle.... |
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« Reply #34 on: October 25, 2007, 07:59:18 AM » |
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Yes, regularly at his solo shows -
Regularly? Only very recently (last couple of years) if that's the case, I think.... |
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« Reply #35 on: October 25, 2007, 09:07:10 AM » |
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nah - certainly played it solo five years ago....not every night, grant you, but regularly. If not that, Genesis Hall was his tip to his past...
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LC
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« Reply #36 on: October 25, 2007, 09:47:44 AM » |
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I was wondering because I have not seen him play it in the last 10 years or so (not that I've been to all the shows!), and don't have any recordings with it on (not that I have them all!). Apparently, when he sang it at a US show early this year he was virtually apologising beforehand, as if he had not played it in a long, long time. I then read, either here or on the RTList, that it was a rare occurrence.
Whichever, I was happy to hear it on Saturday.
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« Reply #37 on: October 25, 2007, 10:08:30 AM » |
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nah - certainly played it solo five years ago....not every night, grant you, but regularly. If not that, Genesis Hall was his tip to his past...
I want evidence and I want it now  I'm checking setlists of all the (several hundred) solo shows I've got and it doesn't show until last year....not saying he hasn't done it earlier at all - it's the use of the word 'regularly' I'm struggling with.... |
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Ollie
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« Reply #38 on: October 25, 2007, 10:17:58 AM » |
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nah - certainly played it solo five years ago....not every night, grant you, but regularly. If not that, Genesis Hall was his tip to his past...
I want evidence and I want it now I'm checking setlists of all the (several hundred) solo shows I've got and it doesn't show until last year....not saying he hasn't done it earlier at all - it's the use of the word 'regularly' I'm struggling with.... Let's not turn this tread into a - http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=24669.msg312522#msg312522 |
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« Reply #39 on: October 25, 2007, 10:21:09 AM » |
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nah - certainly played it solo five years ago....not every night, grant you, but regularly. If not that, Genesis Hall was his tip to his past...
I want evidence and I want it now I'm checking setlists of all the (several hundred) solo shows I've got and it doesn't show until last year....not saying he hasn't done it earlier at all - it's the use of the word 'regularly' I'm struggling with.... Let's not turn this tread into a - http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=24669.msg312522#msg312522 No lets, and what tunings was he using, and someone let us know the exact tab for every song he played, and what strings does Pete Zorn use on the mandolin, and does Danny Thompson take two bottles into the shower - I demand to know and I AM NOT OBSESSIVE!!!!! |
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