BOC: Toads Place, New Haven CT (10/16)

[Ted Jackson jr. s2h2]

> From:          "<Nick English>" <nick at THECAMPUS.COM>

> Okay...since nobody did a setlist for Binghamton, I think I've got it
> now. Basically the same as above, but without the following:
>
> Take Me Away
> Astronomy
> ME262
> In Thee
> Lips in the Hills
> The Red and the Black.
>
> Dominance and Submission was the lone encore.

This is pretty much the set they did at New Hartford [NY], though I'm
not sure about the encores.  I think they did a cover tune, as there
was a guest guitarist sitting in.  But they did perform all those
tunes at that show.  Brian, Torgo, am I right about this?  Maybe they
didn't do tRatB or ME 262 at that show...

>
> I think Theo and I kinda trashed the Binghamton show...or at least
> expressed a bit of disappointment...

Guilty as charged, but I think BOC deserved it.  Since Dec '96 I've
seen them 6 times, and the Bing. show was far and away the worst of
the bunch...

but I will say this -- Eric was
> all aces on SEE YOU IN BLACK. I think he saved up all his energy for
> that song, and was spent by the last note. But it was a damn fine
> performance.
>
> --  Nick

Yeah, EB is light years ahead of where he was in early '97, where BD
and Danny backed him up on almost all his vocals.  He's obviously
pacing himself, and as Nick pointed out before, he's altered his
style to allow himself to hit the high notes better, but, apart from
the Bing. show, he's sounding pretty good these days...

theo