From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #273 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 8 2005 Volume 11 : Number 273 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Sleater-Kinney blew me away...and a few questions. ["Mark B" Subject: Sleater-Kinney blew me away...and a few questions. I had seen posts about Sleater Kinney a few times here and didn't know much about them. I was lucky enough to be on the floor for the Pearl Jam show in Philly on Monday the 3rd of October. My god they were incredible. As a newly inducted fan, what would the best CD be to start with in their catalogue? The most melodic accessable CD is? The heaviest is? Please enjoy the review below from the Ten Club site. Thanks, Mark 10/03/05 - Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA support act: Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney set: Promised Land (with Ed), Unknown Song (with Matt), Mother (with all of PJ) set: Wash, Hail Hail, Brain Of J, Spin The Black Circle, Given To Fly, Sad, Alone, Even Flow, Green Disease, Faithfull, Whipping, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Leatherman, Better Man/(?)/(Save It For Later), Nothingman, Once, Bleed For Me, Blood first encore: Around The Bend, Harvest Moon (w/Sleater-Kinney), Hard To Imagine, Crown of Thorns, Crazy Mary, Alive second encore: Last Kiss, In My Tree, Do The Evolution, Sonic Reducer, Little Sister, Leaving Here (w/Sleater-Kinney), Rockin In The Free World (w/Sleater-Kinney), Yellow Ledbetter. TFT Notes: Starting Sleater-Kinney's set, signer/guitarist Corin Tucker immediately thanked Pearl Jam for inviting them out on tour again, and "especially wanted to thank one person" as Ed came out and kicked off the show with Bruce Springsteen's "Promised Land". Matt was introduced and played "lead tambourine" on a Sleater-Kinney original. For Sleater-Kinney's finale, Corin called out all the members of Pearl Jam and the ensemble played Danzig's "Mother". Mike was on guitar stage-left, Stone was on tambourine in front of the drum kit and Matt stood alongside Janet Weiss and added percussion. Jeff came out in a black, long-sleeve, Samhain (Glenn Danzig's old band) t-shirt, white face paint with eyes blackened and a wig with strands of hair over his face in the Misfits/Samhain style. Ed discretely perched himself behind's Matt kit and filmed the event with a small video camera, before grabbing Matt's sticks and contributing on drums. Pearl Jam opens as they did their first Philly show in 1991 with "Wash". Ed first addresses the crowd before "Given to Fly" with "well, we heard that you were uh ... if you were waiting for us, know that we were waiting for you too ... nice seeing you!". The "man trilogy" of "Leatherman", "Better Man" and "Nothingman" makes its 2005 debut. Remarking that it "feels like the end of the tour" Ed hints that the night will be filled with songs that they don't play that often. Prior to the first encore, Ed's roadie brings out a short music stand complete with numerous lyric sheets, leading to "Around the Bend" (first time in 2005, first since Benaroya '03). Sleater-Kinney provide backup on "Harvest Moon", swaying to the "oooohs" in unison on Stone's mic. Ed mentions "Crown of Thorns" is "only brought out on special occasions, which this is." "Crazy Mary" is started and immediately following the "L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G" line, the stage-left monitors start blasting this hideous screeching feedback, with all band members slowly backing away and the crew scrambling to isolate the problem. It lasts about 10-15 seconds and when it stops, the crowd erupts and all the band has that "what the fuck was that" look on their faces. A spooked Ed says that he never called "Mary" crazy in person, and he doesn't want to continue the song, laughing. Stone starts up the chords, Ed approaches the mic, then backs off shaking his head "I can't do it!". He mentions that Boom had told him during the encore break that he was going to take it "Crazy Mary" to the next level, so the band resumes the song with the second chorus and Mike and Boom do their solo trade-offs. For the second encore, Ed comes on and references their history with Philadelphia, the band's first Philly show at the club J.C. Dobbs July 1991 (commenting on the size of the J.C. Dobbs club by forming the small width of the room to the crowd in front of him with his outstretched hands in a "this small" manner) and as the band walks backstage to play "Last Kiss" to the crowd behind the stage, Ed turns to the crowd in front and says "we're gonna go do a club show." Ed repeatedly nodded sidestage during "Last Kiss" to his wife and daughter during the chorus' line "oh where oh where can my baby be". "Little Sister", an Elvis original, premieres. Eddie references his lyric sheet and the band members are all turned towards Matt, carefully working the new arrangement. Ed brings out Sleater-Kinney for "one more" then realizes they commonly sing encore backups on more than one song, so he asks the crowd "do you want one more or two more?" (to which most of the crowd started chanting "three!"), so they join in for "Leaving Here" and "Rockin in the Free World". On "Rockin'...", Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein played Ed's blue Gibson SG, Janet Weiss played Matt's kit as Matt accented on cymbals and Corin Tucker sang and played tambourine, rockin' with Ed as they slapped their tambourine's together in unison. "Rockin'..." and "Yellow Ledbetter" are played with the house lights on. On the setlist but not played: Footsteps, Don't Gimme No Lip. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:56:54 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: Sleater-Kinney blew me away...and a few questions. I started with One Beat, and I think that's the most mainstream work they've done to-date. Die-hard purists might suggest you start with All Hands, and that's good, but Dig Me Out is a good choice too. The title cut is one of the best songs they've ever done. However, IMO Oh! (from One Beat) is good enough to make mainstream Top 40. Their latest CD, The Woods, is marginal IMO. It contains about 3 songs I just love (Jumpers, Entertain, and Let's Call It Love (ooh baby!)), but I can live without the rest. - --Doug On 10/7/05, Mark B wrote: > I had seen posts about Sleater Kinney a few times here and didn't know much > about them. I was lucky enough to be on the floor for the Pearl Jam show in > Philly on Monday the 3rd of October. My god they were incredible. As a newly > inducted fan, what would the best CD be to start with in their catalogue? > The most melodic accessable CD is? The heaviest is? Please enjoy the review > below from the Ten Club site. Thanks, Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:44:13 -0500 From: "Mandy Qualls" Subject: Re: Sleater-Kinney blew me away...and a few questions. I have to say that Dig Me Out is one of their best. I bought it through word-of-mouth (hard to come by in small town Oklahoma), and absolutely fell in love with them. I even played some of their songs from that album in one of my acoustic sets, although I was young and must say that it lost something in translation. I'll leave their songs to them from now on out of respect to people that go to my shows :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #273 ***************************