Shows/2007-07-23
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Links:
- Flickr gallery by Bob Battams
- Photo from the show by Christopher Woo
Setlist:
- I'm Impressed
- Take Out The Trash
- Alphabet of Nations
- Damn Good Times
- Asbury Park
- The Cap'm
- Memo to Human Resources
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
- Why Does The Sun Shine?
- Upside Down Frown
- Phone Calls From The Dead (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- We're The Replacements
- Experimental Film
- Minimum Wage
- Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head (with false start)
- They Got Lost (Fast version)
- Older
- New York City
- Withered Hope
- Fingertips
- Drink!
- The Mesopotamians
Encore 1:
Encore 2:
They Might Be Giants
— with Young Rival opening —
Mod Club Theatre in Toronto, ON
July 23, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Fan Recaps and Comments:
We were approaching this concert with some apprehension because of the preponderance of material from The Else but we needn't have worried. It had been such a long time - almost five years - since the Giants' last appearance in town that we'd forgotten what a great show they put on, whatever the content.
Some random notes:
- In "The Sun", John F. referred to failed policies - domestic and otherwise - as the elements.
- Eleanor Roosevelt was summoned in "Phone Calls From The Dead". Her questions for the band were "Why don't you play the old songs?" and "Why do the new songs suck?"
- "New York City" included the line "where King Kong lives"
- In "Fingertips", John F. provided the boy band version of "Having a Heart Attack".
- In what John F. termed the "intervention version" of "Drink!", the audience was engaged to yell out "NO! WAIT!" after each occurrence of the word "drink".
- An elaborate Dan Miller solo on acoustic guitar led in to "Istanbul".
- John L. inserted a verse from "Elusive Butterfly of Love" into "Particle Man", just like he'd done six years before at the show at The Guvernment.
- The confetti cannons were poised on stage but not used.
Young Rival, a foursome from Hamilton, Ontario, opened with a serviceable set on guitars and drums.
--Son of Bumpy 15:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
