From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V7 #66 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Monday, October 24 2005 Volume 07 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] TK Bull Run Restaurant 10/22/05 Shirley MA [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:50:56 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] TK Bull Run Restaurant 10/22/05 Shirley MA TK put on a spirited show at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley MA last night in honor of their 11th wedding anniversary. Congratulations to Pete & Maura! This venue is nestled neatly into an old wayside inn dating to 1740. And the acoustics in the room were to die for! Steve the sound guy said that getting people to come the first time was always the challenge, because the venue is so out of the way (about an hour into the boonies from Boston). But once people get the vibe of the performance space, he said, they can't wait to return! Bands who have either played Bull Run or are on the schedule include Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Rick Derringer, Wishbone Ash, and Tom Rush. All kinds of music. And TK played all kinds of songs! Roger Salloom opened. Life Is Large Didn't It Rain Half a Million Miles Day In and Day Out Namaste 9th Street Billy Nuah Chimes of Freedom Shearwater (the lovely duo guitar version) Midnight Ghost Live Wall of Death As I Walked Out (Dylan) Can't Kill Hope With a Gun Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds) Down Down Down Sea Cruise (Frankie Ford) (w/ Steve on background vocals) Orange Blossom medley Sirens Stand (encore) Pete and Maura were in fabulous form musically, and were simply beaming with enthusiasm and good spirits throughout. Pete dusted off his electric sitar for this show, not seen by this reviewer since the Evolver shows of 1999-2000. (Note: I was not yet "following the Kennedys" then, but I got to see them with the Nields on numerous occasions, at HaHaHa dates, with TK touring for songs from Evolver and TN playing the material from If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now. I was with Cone Head at most of those shows. To quote Frank Sinatra, "It Was a Very Good Year." :-) Last night Pete played e-sitar on "Nuah," "As I Walked Out," and on "Sirens," when he played riffs from all of the following songs: "Paint It Black," "Norwegian Wood," "Bouree," "Roundabout" (by Yes!), "Sunshine of Your Love," "House of the Rising Sun," then breaking into "Purple Haze" with the vocal, then a complete "8 Miles High" with all of the verses and instrumental break in the middle (just like at Club Passim last month only without the fiddle), then a sizable excerpt of "Classical Gas," segueing into the complete "Not Fade Away." Whew! A classic, long version of "Sirens" by my reckoning. Before "As I Walked Out," Pete did a little mini-clinic on the electric sitar too, explaining its origins in pop music, and documenting its recorded history by playing more riffs from well-known tunes, including "Games People Play," "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time," "Hooked on a Feeling," and one other which I've forgotten. So much fun! Pete dedicated the song about hope, "Can't Kill Hope With a Gun," to Tom Delay, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, quipping wryly, "I *hope* they learn to like the food in prison!" :-) And Pete dedicated another song to the President of the United States, just before barrelling straightaway into the song with the refrain, "I'll Probably Feel a Whole Lot Better When You're Gone"! :-) P&M did "Down Down Down" as a request (as they did at last year's GFP set), and then launched into Frankie Ford's "Sea Cruise," dragging the sound guy Steve onstage to sing with them, because they wanted to be anything BUT "Down Down Down" on such a happy occasion (their anniversary)! :-) It was a delightful show. Count me a True Believer still after all these years -- TK really rock about as well as any duo in show business -- keeping me coming back for more Bruce Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V7 #66 *********************************