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Revision as of 11:19, 4 May 2007
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Setlist:
- Damn Good Times
- I'm Impressed
- Take Out The Trash
- Ana Ng
- Asbury Park
- Upside Down Frown
- Fingertips
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
- The Shadow Government
- Older
- Phone Calls From The Dead
- We're The Replacements
- Experimental Film
- Careful What You Pack
- Live Free Or Die
- Contrecoup
- Meet James Ensor
- The Cap'm
- New York City
- Withered Hope
- Why Does The Sun Shine?
- Memo to Human Resources
- Doctor Worm
- Drink!
- The Mesopotamians
Encore:
Encore 2:
They Might Be Giants
Stone Church in Newmarket, NH
May 3, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Fan Recaps and Comments:
An excellent show all around! A lot of the new material got played with great enthusiasm. During Take Out The Trash, John Linnell took out a cowbell and hammered on it with a drumstick. It really benefits from being performed live, as most, if not all, of their songs do. Contrecoup has a new bridge, though I didn't note down the new lyrics, and sounds fantastic performed by the full band.
Phone Calls From The Dead was an interesting new thing they did, reminiscent of last year's shows in Nyack where John Flansburgh put on a falsetto in order to pretend to be Helen Hayes. There's a song intro for 'Phone Calls' and Flans goes offstage with the wireless mic. John Linnell takes on a radio disc jockey-like voice and informs the crowd they've run a phone line out to the graveyard and are taking calls and questions live onstage from beyond the grave. At this show and the later one, Flans's halting falsetto claimed to be 'Eleanor Roosevelt.' It was pretty funny to watch, though I think they're still working out the kinks on that one.
I'm not sure if they wrote the song earlier that day or just made it up on the spot, but Live Free Or Die was a short song Flans sang to reference the New Hampshire motto, omnipresent on their license plates. At the early show he played the song on his acoustic guitar, though for the later show he did it on his powder-blue electric.
After Meet James Ensor, someone in the audience yelled out for them to play that same song again, amusing the band. Flans told of watching a concert where the audience was shouting something he didn't understand and first, but gradually realized was, "Rewind!" because they wanted to hear the song start over from the beginning to fully experience it. So throughout the remainder of the show, enthusiastic TMBG fans in the audience would shout, "Rewind!"
Marty Beller has sparkly new drums for the tour with the Indestructible Object logo on the front. Iggy has brand-new LED lights that are apparently twelve watts each and produce very little heat so as not to cook the band and still produce gorgeous lighting effects. Everyone seems psyched for this new set of shows and The Else!
