We are BOC, born to kick your ass.

[Hall, Russell J]

Humorous notes:

Right after Pocket, Eric says (sitting at the keyboard), "Lets do the Vigil,
it fits right in"
After the song, he laughs, "Boy they hate it when I change the set list in
the middle."

Funny, I actually though Bad Kharma was rather good.  Considering the last
opening act I say at the Northen Lights (2 years ago) -- Attica.  That's an
act aptly named -- should only be play in airplanes and prisons - where the
audience cannot get away.

Sure we got to vote - but did they pick Veterans?  No-o-o-o-o.  grumble,
grumble, grumble.


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> Subject:      BOC: We are BOC, born to kick your ass.
>
> At 01:44 11.4.00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Set:
> The band was insanely tight this evening. came on stage happy and smiling
> and highfiving the crowd. Alan "I have come to suck your blood" Lanier was
> rather animated and having fun.
>
> >This Aint the summer of love
> Is what it was. Stood on the Alan /eric side of stage so VBuck for the
> most
> of the night wasn't super present soundwise.
>
> > before the kiss
> Good, Danny M's bass break was tasty.
> >Bucks Boogie
> Didn't QUITE swing, but Rondinelli (despite the throwback hair) has
> startened to get away from hitting the beat. good)
> >Flaming Telepaths
> First time I've seen this, and it waz impressive. I hear some boots of the
> tune and was sadly underwhelmed, but they brought it all together with
> punch.
> The end wind up didnt quite wind up  the trhottle, but still cant
> complain!
> >Take Me Away
> Unexpected. got better.
>
> >Cities on Flame
> Very slow take on the tune, and Lanier stepped out with guitar for the end
> solo run, which I didnt expect.
>
> >Teen Archer
> GOOD solos from Lanier and Buck (as always). and buck held out the end
> "she
> dont carrrrrrre" for as long as the recorded version seemed to hold it out
> too. Much impressed.  Buck seemed to be playign with more warbles in his
> notes than the typical super spidery shred he does.
>
> >Pocket
> Good, possibly marektable Buckpop number with nice soloing end section.
> Worked well leading into the
> >Vigil
> Last saw this in buffalo several years ago, and this time it was much more
> together, made the Come to us section quite heavy as all BO should be
> (hehe) with a sterling solo section by Buck  come to think of it, a lot of
> it was buck solo room setwise.  the unison guitar figure he and Lanier do
> at the end was dead on. kudos.
>
> >Unknown Tongue
> Nice, punchy take with piano solo the band really was paying attnetion to
> playing and having fun that night.
>
> >Astronomy
> The  band seemed to make it funkier than I've heard them try to do it in
> the past (esp. the runs right before "hey" chords), and more of an effort
> in the kybds. to do stuff in the song. Since I havent said it yet, Ill say
> it now. THE band was very good vocally, unison and lead. Erics cvoice is
> completely back to being eric.
>
> >Godzilla
> good bass solo. well tempered. Drum solo was short enough to be good, and
> played well.  another sense of increasing funk swagger in the playing of
> this tune. Lanier was hamming it up well with the audience immediately in
> front of him.
>
>
> >Reaper
> the unnamed guitar solo was the best evidence that buck is back to playign
> with swing. he had a good momentum on it that the
> diffuse-brian-may-delay-pedal-extravaganza normally heard.
> Bad point: due to the COWBELL, an enterprising audient played the thing
> all
> th e way through the tune, and didnt stop when the band broke into the end
> soloing section, throwing off the quick coolness of the "gil blanco
> county"
> end run.
> Danny Miranda was annoyed at the dude too as he prteneded to hit eric with
> an invisible drum stick (or cowbell banging device, since it was invisible
> who knows!)
> >---encore:
> >Burning for You
> The one real dissapointment in the show, because its NOT an encore tune.
> Either way they still rocked as good boys should.
>
> Astounded over all by the variety of the set list, even eric made a coment
> about keeping the shows fresh (bout )(*&(*& time he realized it hehe).
>
> Jason
>
>
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