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Eddie From Ohio from Virginia
So, I went to a concert today. It rocked.
I got on a bus to go downtown at 5:20, and there was a huge backup at the Fremont bridge, so I didn't actually get to the place until 6:30. (Shoulda been like 5:50.) Now, first, let me talk about The Triple Door. It was a VERY odd venue for a band like EFO. It's an upscale restaurant/dinner theater. The menu looked to be a subset of the Wild Ginger menu (it's downstairs from Wild Ginger). The entire place is a bunch of tiered tables. I was seated at a table for 2, by myself, and I was about... 10 feet from the stage, Robbie-side. Really decent seats. I'm not sure there's any bad seats in the place.
Well, anyway, I ordered dinner, which was pretty tasty, and read a book for a bit, and the show actually started exactly on time at 7:30pm. I had my camera with me, but hadn't checked the battery and it was entirely out, which sucks because I could have probably gotten some great pictures. Anyway, here's what they played (nice thing about sitting at a table and being an EFO geek is that I could take notes):
Number Six Driver
Stupid American
And The Rain Crashed Down
Independence, Indiana
Great Day
Horse
Fly
Quick
This Is Me
One
The Best Of Me
Adios, Lorena
The Bird
Baltimore
[Eddie's Drum Solo]
Alone
Old Dominion
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Come Together
Eddie's Concubine
Walk Humbly, Son
The music was of course really good, as were their stage chemistry and jokes and whatnot. I scribbled some quotes. These are from random parts of the show, not together.
Julie: "Okay, now wait a minute. I know that there are many many more of you people out there than there are on our Seattle mailing list. We were barely expecting to be outnumbered, and look at all of you!"
Robbie: "Everyone in this city smells like coffee, and fish. Second, everyone here is good looking. Third, they're all HAPPY. What gives?"
Julie: "We went to the place that smelled like coffee and fish, you know, the Pike Place Market. We figured we'd go where all the locals hang out!"
Robbie: "...well, we're out of thongs, but we're not out of songs!"
Mike: "So, I had made a New Year's resolution to be a better driver, and I was really good about it for... oh, a week or two. And one day, I let a kid drive past, and I waved him by, and he... well, he was pretty rude and flipped me off, for whatever reason. Now, the thing is... it was my birthday! How dare you flip someone off on their birthday? Maybe in Jersey you do, but... anyway, I wanted to go chase the kid down and tell him to come back and flip me off the next day, but instead I went home and wrote a song about it."
Robbie: "After we've been playing for 14 years, I finally feel like I've found my inner voice. Unfortunately, it's the voice of a small Irish woman. Fortunately, we have a small Irish woman in this band."
Mike: "For this next song [Alone], we're experimenting with a new music form -- we've combined folk with lots of other stuff in the past, so this time we're doing... porn and folk! Or Polk, if you will! Julie will sing under the assumed porn star name Wild Ginger!"
hmm.
Well, anyway, it was a good show. The place was almost entirely sold out, much to EFO's bewilderment. There were obviously some fans (we were all the weirdoes making hand motions and singing along to Old Dominion) but a lot of other people who were just kind of there for the upscale restaurant. Either way, it was pretty fun, though they played a lot of stuff off the new album, and I would have preferred hearing more old stuff. That's usually the case with bands I see these days :) I mean, of course they will play their new album stuff, and it did convince me to buy the new album, so hey.
After the show the band came out to the back where they were selling CDs and shirts. Julie was even ringing people's credit cards up. I bought the new album and got everyone to sign it, and chatted a bit. I said to Julie and Robbie, "I saw you guys in concert two and a half years ago, right before I moved out here, and I asked then, 'Do you guys ever play in Seattle?' and you all went 'Hell no!'" And Julie's like, "Well, now that we know we actually have fans here, we promise to come back again in less than 5 years, okay?" And I said the same to Mike and Eddie, and not only did Mike comment on my Carnegie Mellon jacket, but he even REMEMBERED THE EXACT SHOW I was talking about, when I said something about "a free concert at a park kind of far out" but couldn't remember the name, he said "Oh yeah! South Park! That was a great show, lots of fun, interesting crowd."
Whee.
I took the 358 bus home instead of the 5 afterwards and got a nice walk. It's cold.
I got on a bus to go downtown at 5:20, and there was a huge backup at the Fremont bridge, so I didn't actually get to the place until 6:30. (Shoulda been like 5:50.) Now, first, let me talk about The Triple Door. It was a VERY odd venue for a band like EFO. It's an upscale restaurant/dinner theater. The menu looked to be a subset of the Wild Ginger menu (it's downstairs from Wild Ginger). The entire place is a bunch of tiered tables. I was seated at a table for 2, by myself, and I was about... 10 feet from the stage, Robbie-side. Really decent seats. I'm not sure there's any bad seats in the place.
Well, anyway, I ordered dinner, which was pretty tasty, and read a book for a bit, and the show actually started exactly on time at 7:30pm. I had my camera with me, but hadn't checked the battery and it was entirely out, which sucks because I could have probably gotten some great pictures. Anyway, here's what they played (nice thing about sitting at a table and being an EFO geek is that I could take notes):
Number Six Driver
Stupid American
And The Rain Crashed Down
Independence, Indiana
Great Day
Horse
Fly
Quick
This Is Me
One
The Best Of Me
Adios, Lorena
The Bird
Baltimore
[Eddie's Drum Solo]
Alone
Old Dominion
------------
Come Together
Eddie's Concubine
Walk Humbly, Son
The music was of course really good, as were their stage chemistry and jokes and whatnot. I scribbled some quotes. These are from random parts of the show, not together.
Julie: "Okay, now wait a minute. I know that there are many many more of you people out there than there are on our Seattle mailing list. We were barely expecting to be outnumbered, and look at all of you!"
Robbie: "Everyone in this city smells like coffee, and fish. Second, everyone here is good looking. Third, they're all HAPPY. What gives?"
Julie: "We went to the place that smelled like coffee and fish, you know, the Pike Place Market. We figured we'd go where all the locals hang out!"
Robbie: "...well, we're out of thongs, but we're not out of songs!"
Mike: "So, I had made a New Year's resolution to be a better driver, and I was really good about it for... oh, a week or two. And one day, I let a kid drive past, and I waved him by, and he... well, he was pretty rude and flipped me off, for whatever reason. Now, the thing is... it was my birthday! How dare you flip someone off on their birthday? Maybe in Jersey you do, but... anyway, I wanted to go chase the kid down and tell him to come back and flip me off the next day, but instead I went home and wrote a song about it."
Robbie: "After we've been playing for 14 years, I finally feel like I've found my inner voice. Unfortunately, it's the voice of a small Irish woman. Fortunately, we have a small Irish woman in this band."
Mike: "For this next song [Alone], we're experimenting with a new music form -- we've combined folk with lots of other stuff in the past, so this time we're doing... porn and folk! Or Polk, if you will! Julie will sing under the assumed porn star name Wild Ginger!"
hmm.
Well, anyway, it was a good show. The place was almost entirely sold out, much to EFO's bewilderment. There were obviously some fans (we were all the weirdoes making hand motions and singing along to Old Dominion) but a lot of other people who were just kind of there for the upscale restaurant. Either way, it was pretty fun, though they played a lot of stuff off the new album, and I would have preferred hearing more old stuff. That's usually the case with bands I see these days :) I mean, of course they will play their new album stuff, and it did convince me to buy the new album, so hey.
After the show the band came out to the back where they were selling CDs and shirts. Julie was even ringing people's credit cards up. I bought the new album and got everyone to sign it, and chatted a bit. I said to Julie and Robbie, "I saw you guys in concert two and a half years ago, right before I moved out here, and I asked then, 'Do you guys ever play in Seattle?' and you all went 'Hell no!'" And Julie's like, "Well, now that we know we actually have fans here, we promise to come back again in less than 5 years, okay?" And I said the same to Mike and Eddie, and not only did Mike comment on my Carnegie Mellon jacket, but he even REMEMBERED THE EXACT SHOW I was talking about, when I said something about "a free concert at a park kind of far out" but couldn't remember the name, he said "Oh yeah! South Park! That was a great show, lots of fun, interesting crowd."
Whee.
I took the 358 bus home instead of the 5 afterwards and got a nice walk. It's cold.