Nov 5 BOC reunion gig

[Albert Bouchard]

Eric was kind of tired at the end of the gig. I think he was a little
nervous at first and then, with what seemed to be the never-ending
meet-and-greet (which he enjoyed only in retrospect), he seemed anxious to
get out of there. OTOH I just got a nice email from him and I'm hoping we
can do some creative type stuff again soon. We got caught up the moment and
misjudged the amount of time we had. We fully intended to do Cities and
maybe Hot Rails as the inevitable encore but the hall was pulling the plug
on us. Maxwells (in Hoboken) would have let us play all night…

As for the cowbells, I felt like the Buck character in the SNL skit and the
idea of stopping the track to ask the real Bruce Dickinson (who was there)
if it wasn't too much made me almost lose it.;-)

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ralph <kirthgersen at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> > Too bad Patti couldn't make it but I was still glad to play Career. I
> almost forgot what a rockin' little track it is.
>
> Oh it's a great track alright, but with such limited time - and no Patti -
> I think Cities and Hot Rails would have been better than OD'd and Career to
> end with... I mean, Cities is such an important song to the story of BOC
> that it's VERY strange that THAT song could get chopped in a show to
> celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band...
>
> Gotta question - everyone was speculating how on earth could you tune out
> what must have been a madly discordant cowbell chorus going on behind your
> head during DFTR - I know it must have been politically expedient to give
> everyone "something to do" during that last song, but 3 cowbells!!...
>
> One other thing we were wondering also... at the end of the night, and
> you're all saying your goodbyes, how was it left?  Any mention of "we must
> do this again sometime" (hopefully not in 40 years) or anything that left a
> door open for such a thing again in the future, because there's no hiding
> the vibe those last few songs got (as well as Death Valley Nights, of
> course) and the electricity that was in the air... hard to tell what EB was
> thinking - his expression doesn't seem to change much (he could be winning
> the lottery or having his foot sawn off, you'd struggle to guess which) -
> but Buck REALLY seemed to be having a good time...
>
> And I bet it was REALLY strange for you and Joe...
>