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" Review by Ozzie Pottersmith "


" Pete took the the stage looking very cool with his shades on, and his
hat in his hand. Hat went on head, and ICE got the night underway, and
was immediately stopped by Pete, obviously in pain, and agitated by
something. Strange memories from 1979 came rushing in. Pete informed
everyone that he was having an inner ear problem, and would be back as
soon as he got knocked, pounded out. Roger stayed on stage a minute or
so and endured the calls for him to do Magic Bus without Pete, because
I told him I'd seen him do it once before (with the Who.) There were a
million other suggestions, but soon, the stage was empty. JMP, who by
the way was right behind me for the whole show, leaned over and said,
"I'm happy I took a few photos when I did." Which cracked us both up.
But it wasn't long before Pete came back to a loud round of applause,
and Roger said something about doing it again, and they did. Double
the pleasure, double the fun!

The blood started to flow from song one, at which point he held his
finger under his little stage light used for his mixer, and it just
illuminated the damage. He went over to his water bottle, washed it
off and informed us he was having his period through his finger.

It wasn't but a few moments into The Seeker when many knew right off, this
was going to be a powerhouse of a show. Some great banter from Pete
and Roger, Pete once again crediting the front row contingent for the
very expensive car that he might own. The direction of our boisterous
comments to the stage was mostly going to Roger, and at some point
Pete yelled out, "you don't have to stop heckling me just because I
have a cold!" And you could just imagine what that turned loose, and
hilariously it all started with someone yelling "Get on with it!" And
went on from there, Pete loving it, and calling us all a bunch of cunts.

As always, Fragments was fucking amazing for me, and brought out my
customary "play the rest of the fucking album," but it wasn't to
happen. But what did happen was that everything that they did play
seemed to push Pete further to the edge of combustion. He did more
during this show, than I remember him jumping on all the east coast
shows I was at put together. There was a wild abandon to the night's
performance that gave it a special edge. Seeing another blistering NE,
and equally explosive MG/CIYW, a very welcomed version of MB, and an
ITA worthy performance of SK didn't hurt the night's score.

When getting ready to do SK, Pete announced that he was going to do a
song he rarely does in public, and added it might be the first time
he's ever done it in public. As he was getting ready to start, he
asked for his stool, and there was the slightest bit of a delay
getting it out to him, and Roger used the opportunity to ask for a
large comfy chair, which we all thought was hysterical. Roger shoots,
he scores! But then he completely forgot the words to SK and Pete just
kept on playing the beginning while we all sang the beginning, until
it was very clear that Roger was not going to pull it off until Pete
stopped, and he had a chance to regroup. Which he did, and Roger and
Pete, and the audience did a very unique version of SK, with Simon
staying on the stage and clapping along. After the song, Roger states
that now you know why they don't do it in public. At that Pete
answered, "I always knew I'd do it when I was 63. And Roger says, as
he's walking towards the side stage, something like "well I fucking
never did!" Pete answered "I guess you missed it."

We also got a bit more of Pete going on about Christmas presents, and
how "our families weren't getting presents, because you spent all
your money on us. "And then he added, "we are your Christmas presents,
and after a pause, and you, ours." That was great!

Having spent the day with the wonderful and total IAD Queuesters, as
well as having John MP and John Hughes there to share this show with,
was just total perfection. For the encore, JPM took the rail, I was
behind him, and John Huges was behind me, and we all rocked out in
unison. A very wonderful young woman from Greece, that as expected, I
can't recall her name, was the recipient of Trrish's Sunday ticket,
and the front row spot between Jon Pywell (sp?) and myself. It
couldn't have gone to a more wonderful and appreciative Who fan!!I
truly had a blast surrounded by all the great people at that show. The
Tommy encore was fab as always, and T&T was spectacular in the closing
spot. I'm sure I've left out plenty, but I'm also sure you'll be
hearing more about that show.

Kinkaid:

Simon, proud pop with a camera, taking pictures during most of the set,
gives Ben a big hug, off stage after the set. I totally showed them
the love on Sunday, and had no fucking clue who it was, until someone
told me tonight that "Simon was watching from the side on Sunday, and
he now he really likes you." I thought that was fucking funny, and I
had a great time with that band on both Saturday, and Sunday. The lead
singer was such a young Mick Jagger type, and I immediately loved
him. Plus he had some fantastic tight coral blue trousers, and a
beautiful bracelet. And it really helped that he was fucking talented.
The band was tight, and very easy to listen to, and did a great job.  "



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He just needed a start.

Joey wrote on Dec 16^th, 2008 at 4:47pm:


Joey can you email the lyrics to Rog so he doesn't forget them tomorrow night.

Joey wrote on Dec 16^th, 2008 at 4:47pm:


that cat gif is fucking creepy.................

Set List

I Can't Explain
The Seeker
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Tattoo
Sister Disco
Baba O' Riley
Eminence Front
5:15
Love Reign O'er Me
Won't Get Fooled Again
My Generation / Cry If You Want
Naked Eye
Encore:
Magic Bus
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me Feel Me/Listening To You
Tea And Theater

Opening Band:  Sons of Albion (featuring Logan Plant, Robert Plant's son)

Videos: ICE, MG, WGFA, MB

" Review by Dan Di Carlo   

Back from the 3rd night. Once again I was just behind the front row guys, fantastic view and despite no Slipkid, boy did Pete ramp it up!

Roger wasn't in quite as good form as Sunday and Monday, but Pete was on 11 tonight, playing so awesome lead and flying over the stage like the total master showman he is. There were some times (many times) when he came to the front of the stage, all of 2 feet away, and several feet above me and just rocked out - windmilled, soloed, leapt.... with so much intensity. Why wasn't this filmed? With his shades on it was impossible to tell where he was looking but he might as well have been looking right at me, and I felt like he wanted to kill me - the most scary and at the same time, fantastic moments of my life

The gig started great. The Seeker was the best version I've yet to hear. This year it's the full version and Pete played a great solo. Who Are You contained the first killer "pete at the front and looking scary moments" and he played some nice licks at the end. After BBE, Roger drew laughter by chucking his drink all over a certain front row regular.... Speaking of drinks, Rachel (Or "er indoors" as Pete called her) wandered across stage with a drink for Pete at one point.

Anyway, Tattoo was played again and then a solid sister disco performance (in these gigs Pete's improv at the end has almost wandered into Drowned) 5.15 was INCREDIBLE. A long extended jam that seemed to fill up about the same time that John's bass solo used to, had Pete displaying both fretboard fireworks and stage moves. WHY WASN'T THIS FILMED??????? Standing at the front I had a moment of pure energy that I can't describe as Pete reeled off soloing then fired up the windmills and shifted between lead, powerchords, windmills... the whole thing with such fluidity it was crazy. Best post Ox 5.15 I've seen, and Pete's best performance of it. It was a highlight, worth the ticket price alone. During it Pete shouted something like "Who are you fucking looking at??!" Intense.

Love Reign O'er me was great although Roger couldn't hit the falsetto note at the end and laughed and then screamed a lower one instead which was perfectly ok.

WGFA was very good followed by a good My Generation. Pino's solo wasn't quite as good as Sunday and Monday but the jam at the end was great. Pete sang the captain walker lines with less bars, more like it is on the album.

No Slipkid this time, but Pete played the riff for Boris The Spider as a joke. Then Roger sang the opening 2 lines as Zak lightly joined in on drums. For a moment it seemed they'd play it. Then Pete said he was "channeling John" he took off his hat, went all funny like a psychic and said a message was coming through, which was "fffffuuh" which Pete said was John's favourite expression as "those who propped up the bar with him would know"

Magic Bus was complete with "Country Line Special" bit from Roger

Pinball Wizard started off a little bit out of time and Pino had to look over to get back in sync with Pete. A funny moment happened when Roger was struggling to regain control of his mic after swing it and just managed to grab it in time to sing the final verse, which made him smile.

Amazing Journey /Sparks was on fire, brilliant playing from Pete and once again killer stage moves!

Roger's voice had started to weaken by See Me Feel Me but he still sang more times than previous nights, in fact Pete even curtailed a solo when Roger carried on singing.

On T&T Roger seemed to have trouble and walked away shaking his head before walking back to the mic and carrying on to the finish.

Overall the tightest and most explosive of the 3 nights. Pete was certainly on his best form of the 3, Roger was probably weaker than the previous nights where I thought he was pretty faultless, but he was still in good form for most of the gig. Also the set was better on Monday of course.

As Pete waved goodbye it honestly looked like he gave a wave to me, it looked like he was looking right at me and I was in the second row right between 2 people, so it is possible that he picked out a few faces in the crowd to wave to and I got lucky. I also got one of Roger's plectrums. "


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