Saw Eric Bachmann last night at Southpaw. It was a great show - the best I've seen him put on in a number of years. He was in a great mood, took requests all night, and did a nice mix of songs from the entire Crooked Fingers catalog.
And then he busted out with this to start the encore. I missed the first few seconds of my recording opportunity because this might have been the LAST song I expected to hear last night and was not prepared to record it.
He followed this up with rousing versions of New Drink for the Old Drunk, Red Devil Dawn (the closest I've felt to feeling the old Archers energy from him in a long time) and closed it out with A Little Bleeding from the first Crooked Fingers LP which is now inexplicably eight years old!
The crowd was into it all night. It was a great show. One of the best ones I've seen in a long time. The crowd was definitely chockful of thirtysomethings growing older with Mr. Bachmann. At least on this night, growing older felt pretty damn good.
It wasn't all nostalgia though. He played a new song that he'll be recording next month for the new Crooked Fingers LP and it was really good. I look forward to the fall when his next offering is released.
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wow, it actually almost sounds like it could be from a Crooked Fingers album. now i'm disappointed i didn't go.
Vee Vee was the very first new vinyl purchase of my life, and hence will always be a fave of mine. I've only seen him as Crooked Fingers once, when he was touring for his first record. It was a great show.
I know it's too much to ask, but I was really hoping that when he gets into the chorus bit at the end, the crowd would keep doing Matt's "All I ever wanted" repeating refrain while he hit the other line...but alas the crowd sang along with him....I wish I had been bold enough to try and make the crowd do what I wanted...
it was still to see great tho...
i liked how people did add vocals to manowar though.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
Lost your friction and you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive, overlive, override.
AOL "Web in Front"
One of my top 10 live shows of all time was an Archers' show, at Bowdoin College, circa '95 (?), with Eric bitching about their van being searched at the Canadian border and pot being found and confiscated.
Now there's a surprise. Indie band, touring by van and not having the forethought that they might be searched?
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