HW: High rise

[Nick Medford]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:56:50 -0400, Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
wrote:

>I think they played "High Rise" on the early dates of the '99 winter tour,
>but not on the last two (including Croydon).  That would be with Ron on
>bass.

OK, and the setlists you quoted prove it. I didn't know that, I wonder how
Ron handled the bass and vox, as it's quite a demanding song on both counts.

>
>>They *did* play it at Croydon in 2001, but Alan Davey was back
>>in the fold by then, so he'd have been on bass. In fact they made a
>>terrible mess of it, Ron shaking his head when the crowd cheered at the
end
>>anyway, and closing the gig by saying "Thanks a lot... sorry about the bit
>>of crap in the middle!"
>
>I think that version is just Ron (vox) / Dave (keys) / Simon (violin) /
>Keith (Synthi), with no rhythm section.

I was there and I really can't remember whether Alan was onstage or not. I
certainly remember that Richard *wasn't* onstage for that song, although
whether that was intentional or not I wasn't sure- I wondered if he was
supposed to come in halfway through but didn't, due to the confusion among
the others.

Anyway thanks for the clarification

Nick