From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V3 #28 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Wednesday, March 3 1999 Volume 03 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- knitting factory show [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:17:05 -0500 From: meredith Subject: knitting factory show Hi! Allow me to be the first to state that Veda's new album is going to be unbelievable. :) How do I know this? Well, she and the Skilled And Devoted Band played quite a bit of new stuff last night at the Knitting Factory in NYC, and while the whole show completely blew me away, the new stuff just made the night. She did two 45-minute sets. Yes, I was a weenie and stole the set list. But I had to get the titles of the new songs. :) I'm guessing at a couple of these titles because they're in shorthand ... but I think I've got it. Set 1: Pause Born Lucky Driven Meeting The Group of Seven Clumbsy Pony Bride Song for Snake Seasoned Boy in the Woods Peculiar Value Veterans Set 2: Noah's Ark Sweet Three Times Thin Williamsburg Batterie Kill Zone Wrong Slumber Queen Encore 1: The River Strange, Sad Encore 2: INSTRUCTIONS 26 Years Starting the show with the four songs she did just had me a quivering mess on the floor. I recovered enough to enjoy the rest of the set, though. :) "Clumbsy" (Veda's spelling :) is the one with the "fuck in the kitchen" line in it (which we were all too mature to giggle at :), and "Pony Bride" is the happy other side to it, which Veda prefaced by saying, "I'm in love - - sorry". :) "Peculiar Value" really worked well with a full band arrangement - it's come a long way since the piano-only version I saw in November. And "Veterans", which closed the first set is just a piano-only snippet less than a minute long. Very much a work in progress, I'd say. The second set started with Ford Pier making the rounds of the stage: he played guitar on "Noah's Ark", then moved to drums on the next two, then to piano for the next two. Barry played guitar while Ford was sitting at his drum kit, and on "Williamsburg" Martin played something that looked like a lap steel mandolin. I didn't get a really good look at it, so I'm not entirely sure exactly what it was. "Three Times Thin" apparently comes from a story Veda read about a boy whose father took him overseas and they didn't come back, so the boy didn't see his mother for several years. "Williamsburg" is a song co-written with Oh Susanna, which Veda called "our breakout country hit" - it's about New York City, curiously enough. It does sound like an Oh Susanna song, but with more complicated chords. :) I liked Martin's slide guitar-thing work on this. "Batterie" is the song that has the repeated line "God beat down my door", which even with the full band was still very, very quietly done. That segued beautifully jarringly into "Kill Zone", which is even more over the top than it was last fall. :) "Wrong" is the song Veda had been introducing last fall as her sure-fire alternative rock hit. This time she introduced it as the song that they're going to close their stadium show with on May 2- we all tried to make the noise of 15,000 screaming Alanis fans, but I don't think we succeeded. :) "To And From Ira" was on the set list, but she didn't play it, instead going straight into "Slumber Queen" to close the show. Then after some wild applause they launched into the encore, a really intense, rocking No Means No song. "Strange, Sad" provided a nice counterpoint to that. After that we weren't going to let Veda go so soon, so she came back and took requests. "INSTRUCTIONS" and "26 Years" were yelled out by the most people, so that was that. I was a very, very happy front row denizen. :) It was just so great to see Veda and band play again. Ford wasn't too overbearing, even when he turned it up a bit in the second set. I really did like his contributions to some of the new songs. Veda mentioned that he's getting ready to release his second solo album. I didn't know he had a first - anybody have it? What's it like? The Old Office was packed to the rafters - I think the next time Veda's at the Knitting Factory she'll be in the main space for sure. Dan Stark, it was great to finally meet you! And Jeff and Michael, it was good to see you again. Looking forward to seeing/meeting even more of you this weekend ... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V3 #28 *******************************