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[albert at CELLSUM.COM]

Here is the set we did:

1.  Which Road is Mine? (new Joe solo album song)(Joe, Bobby MacDougal
slide and harp)
2.  Kickin a Can (new Joe solo album song, written by James Bouchard)(Joe,
Bobby MacDougal slide, Al drums)
3.  Under My Wheels(Blue Coupe)
4.  Cities on Flame (Blue Coupe with Andy H, guitar)
5.  I’m 18 (Blue Coupe)
6.  Caught in a Dream (Blue Coupe)
7.  Vampire Night (Blue Coupe)
8.  Love’s a Killer (Blue Coupe)
9.  Black Juju (Blue Coupe)
10. Dark Boat (new Joe solo album song, written by John Elwood Cook)(Blue
Coupe)
11. Nosferatu (Blue Coupe)
12. Dark Angel (Underbelly)
13. Astronomy (Underbelly)
14. Rational Passional (Underbelly)
15.  The Red and the Black (Underbelly)
16.  Tattoo Vampire  (Albert vocal, Andy H Bass, Deek aka Richard
Eisenhart Guitar)
17.  Hot Rails to Hell  (Andy H Bass)
18.  Dominance and Submission (Albert vocal, Andy H Bass)
19.  School’s Out (Blue Coupe)(with Bobby MacDougal)
20.  Reaper (Blue Coupe)(with Bobby MacDougal)

Adrian Romero plays guitar for the Underbelly.
Bobby MacDougal plays with Joe in a band called Triple Threat.
Deek created the logo and t shirt for the event and works for Andy H.
All of us onstage had a blast! It was, for me one of the greatest
audiences I've had the honor of playing for. I hope I get to do it again
someday. Thanks,
Al


On Sun, November 16, 2008 8:08 am, Steve Swann wrote:
> Man, I couldn't even keep track of how many bands and musicians took
> the stage last night???  Al, can you post the setlist and maybe the
> list of bands?  I couldn't even begin to remember it all.
>
> The Bouchard brothers were on stage all night, anchoring every one of
> the bands.  Joe did probably 80% of the singing, the biggest
> exceptions being that Al sang his songs (Cities, D&S, etc), Les Vegas
> sang the Underbelly set, and Dennis fronted for a couple.
>
> I didn't know Les Vegas before this gig, but he immediately got me on
> his side by saying, "I just recently was introduced to this song by
> Joe, but now it's like my favorite song ever..."  He was talking about
> Astronomy (my favorite song ever) so that was a pretty cheap way to
> recruit me as a fan.  ;-)  He's a great singer and frontman, too - he
> took a song that neither I, nor I bet half the people present last
> night, had ever heard before (Dark Age) and *brought down the fucking
> house with it*.  To make a crowd of hardcore old school fans who came
> to hear their favorite classics go berserk over a song they've never
> heard before is an accomplishment, lemme tellya...
>
> There were a huge number of musicians present:
> On drums:
> Al - the one and only
> On bass:
> Dennis Dunaway, man-o-man does that guy rock out on bass.  (In an
> aside where I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not, Joe credited
> Dennis teaching him how to play bass, and after that maybe I was just
> imagining the similarities in their styles... ;-)
> David Hirschberg, who I was happy to see back on stage - I haven't
> seen him since the last (hopefully not final??) Brain Surgeons show
> Andy Hilfiger, who onstage looked eerily like his late and
> much-lamented brother Billy - and who also gets huge credit as the
> organizer of the event
> On guitar:
> Joe, who started out with a 12-string acoustic and I guess must have
> seen worried faces in the crowd or something, because he paused
> between songs to promise "Don't worry, we'll be rocking tonight"  ;-)
> and YES THEY DID
> ??? Romero, I didn't catch his first name, a young fella I didn't
> recognize.  Knows his BOC licks, though.
> Les Vegas, on electric-acoustic while singing
> Andy Hilfiger, who jumped on stage with a guitar for like one song -
> if *I* had organized an event like that, I'D DO IT TOO  ;-)
> I missed the name of the guy who was playing with Joe during the
> electric-acoustic set at the beginning, for which I apologize, and I
> think I missed at least one other guitar player along the way as well,
> at one point there were like 5 or 6 people on stage and I didn't
> recognize all of them.
>
> Highlight of the evening for me:
> They played Nosferatu!!!  If I had thought to send in a request
> beforehand, that would have been it it.
>
> They did tons of old classics from BOC, Soft White Underbelly,
> X-Brothers, various old and new Bouchard solo and collaborative
> projects, and some of Dennis' material from his Alice Cooper days.  It
> was great, with one of the most wild, amped-up crowds I've ever been
> in.  Some of them had come across the country for this and the BOC fan
> show tonight, and everybody was making the most of it.  I hope the
> bands had as much fun as we all did - thanks to all the musicians for
> putting on such a great, fan-oriented show, and to Andy Hilfiger again
> for making it happen.  You guys were all great.
>
> Steve