PA Setlists

Beehive show
This show was killer, I remember the entire second set as a highlight. And the encore with Cliff and Ed climbing up to the very top of some tall speaker cabinets and both jumping back onto stage, landing on the last note of I am the Walrus.

Beehive
I went north a day early and chilled in Kent for a day, before heading up the Pittsburgh way. Danni and I left on I-76 east towards Youngstown about 4pm or so on Friday, and with the helpfully detailed directions via Smitty, we arrived at the beehive around sound check time where i sat and talked shop with Chopp for a while. on to Mr. Bill to see what was all entailing in his world. he was lax as usual, aside the fact he was dealing with a sound system that looked like something straight from the early 50's or so. it created more hiss than a 20th generation analog cassette that had been taped on something that hadn't been cleaned or demagged in over 100 uses. i thought to myself that this might be an interesting evening. we had a couple of hours to burn before show time so we sat around and played backgammon and euchre with Dave and Eric until it approached the supposed 9:30 start time. the venue itself was a little odd for me, as the soundboard was on the under 21 side and the only thing between me and a view of the stage was a 10 foot high diagonal metal fence. the atmosphere and energy in the room was something i thought was pretty intense. as for the structural lay-out of the place, everything was awesome except that fence. it's an old movie theater and has, what i thought, were very good acoustics. the lights dropped and the the place got dark. thanks to the Wobblee himself, we had a somewhat synchronized light display. he did the best with what we had to work with. amazingly enough, although the hiss was pretty bad when it was dead quiet, Ol' Bill must have twirled his magic fingers, because it sounded good. from minute one I thought the mix was perfect. They opened the show with one of my all-time favorite ed tunes, springtime again. the energy started out intense and just escalated. i kept looking at the time and the songs they had played and through the first five tunes, they had been playing almost an hour. from the opener, Dave took the mic and laid down a really thick utopia, followed by Roller Coaster. i now have a new appreciation for that song. the crossfire of instruments in the heat of the rhythm unloaded the most cocky version of surround i have ever heard. at one point all instruments were in complete synchronized jam so intensely that they almost became one. as soon as they did, they brought it back down with the bow we wow woump. hands down boys. Dave lightened the load for a little bit, while the mellowness of the beginning stages of so they say took place. as for the second half of this tune, just like jack the ripper. i love hearing ed sing the fi fi and her red knitted sweater song. one of my favorite cover tunes. lady vanilla followed up before Dave took on the acoustic guitar to finish up the set. it had been 45 shows since Dave last played sure cure for the blues. he had chopper all freaked out, cuz the last time before that that Dave had played it, was also 45 shows apart. just coincidence? i think so. music closed the set and the boys paused for a 25 minute intermission. The lights dropped once more and the boys goofily twanged their instruments before Clifford teed off with John Henry. from there, the insanity intensified with a crazily mind-blowing schwa. every time they play this song, it makes me want to jump onstage and start screaming SCHWA!!! the urge hasn't yet overcome the cognitive, so my insanity stops there. i really dug the daffodils. absolutely one of my favorite songs. that beginning guitar riff does something to set my groove right. this blended really well into Hush, a tune I hadn't heard in a long while. ed mellowed the rage with a splendid version of pass the cider. he has a way of making even the mellowest of songs intense. then he made the intensist of tunes more intense, when they busted into lax. that reggae-ish type jam in the middle of the tune is pretty wild. Dave got on acoustic guitar and they kicked down an awesome rendition of silver train that segued into the ever so foot stopping hodown song, Keepin' Time. Ed polished off the close of the set with the back to back Alexander jams. man was Sweney on fire. hanging out with Eric earlier, he was remembering the specifics of the encore, so i pretty much guessed it was coming. this tune too, i hadn't heard in a while either, so it was nice. they jammed for about three total hours, and worth every second of it. off for Kent that night, and with a few things left undetailed in our directions, we were lost from the get go. Pittsburgh is a tricky city to get around in and if you're not familiar, you end up, you guessed it, lost. somehow we ended up on I-279 southbound, needing it northbound. after crossing the river, we decided to get out the map. it turned out that if we went a little further, we'd hit I-79 northbound. so off we went, not being able to keep going on I-279 southbound towards I-79. instead, we were on I-279 northbound going back into the city. oh well, that we did and eventually pulled into kent around 4:30AM. it was a rainy night and her windshield wipers were blurry in the rain. talk about hypnotizing. it made it for a long drive back that night.

Fun in slantville
Don't ask, don't tell…: o) Friday started out so slow. Work was really bringing me down. Even though I really don't do anything at work, I still felt utterly exhausted. I had to be there at 6:30 am which really sucks when you know you have a four hour drive to look forward to. Finally when my day was done I bid everyone farewell and rushed back home to finish packing. Joel an I set the tent up earlier yesterday so really the only thing we had to do was get our clothes and blankets packed up and hit the road. But of course Joel was a little lagged from not getting much sleep the night before. He insisted we stay home and take and hour nap. All I could do was look at him and laugh, ummm yeah that's not happening. I told him that I would drive and he could sleep, he was hesitant, just wanted that few extra minutes but he eventually rose and helped me pack. Once we double checked to make sure we had everything: Cell phone: check Money: check Camera: check I.D: Check Tent and Clothes: Check Blankets and pillow: Check Joel: Check Markers and Construction paper (For signs of course, they are essential): boooooo, Joel said No…the stinker Once I checked and double checked to make sure I had everything, ya see Joel didn't bring much so everything he needed was in his pockets, and we were off. There was a bit of traffic on the highway, as if everyone else knew that it was going to be a great weekend too and they wanted to get to their paradise before anyone else. As I sat in the drivers seat, munching a bag of funions, Joel ever so slowly……..drifted into…………sleep. Only to grab my leg and jerk back awake and say I'm up I'm up. All I could do was laugh and tell him to put a pillow over his head. He finally fell asleep again as I sat bouncing in my seat singing to myself and flipping the radio stations, not satisfied with one channel for the mere fact of what I knew was coming in store for us tonight. Joel slept for about an hour before he arose a cranky mess. He proceeded to flip my radio station from a song that I liked and was singing too and tell me how bad my driving was. All I could do was laugh; I'm used to his crankiness by now so I foreshadowed it. We took a stretch at the rest stop and proceeded, minus a cranky Joel who was now becoming increasingly exited. Since it was a merry hippy holiday Joel pull out his refreshments and started to light one, when seemingly out of nowhere the fuzz are directly behind us. Of course sketchy Joel is telling me slow down your going to get me pinched. I'm a good driver so I just kept with the speed limit and thought nothing of it. What seemed like forever really was only like five minutes when the cop finally pulled around us. Joel just laughed and I continued to tell him about my sparkling clean driving record and how he had nothing to fear. No more than three minutes later a nice ass car like a convertable or something literally flew by me goin 100mph, where was the cop then huh? Oh well, even that couldnt dilute my excitement. By this time I was gettin antsy and we were getting close to Pa, so somehow I cowersed Joel into taking the wheel for the rest of the way. We followed the mapquest directions to a T. Note: If you ever are goin to Mr smalls or the Pittsburgh Pa area, it is best to find a hotel in advance before you get there. Id also like to Note: that we did not!!! Once we hit Pa the air turned weird, I say this because and I quote "I am an Ohio country girl through and through." The, well lets call it landscaping, was definatly very interesting. Many of the bulidings were delopidated, falling down, already fell down, or on a slant or a hill. Slanty shanty town is what we nicknamed it lol. Everything seemed to be on a shift as though the town had gone through a earthquake and they all just decided to leave it that way. Dont get me wrong, Ive never meet any of the people that live in this town and my hometown is no New York city either. When we finally got to the "town" area we couldnt figure the roads out. It must be our simple Ohio brains but normally stop signs help to show people where they need to stop and when someone is goin to stop for you. We ended up on the tinnnney street that was Full of buildings. ALl shapes, sizes, and slants. I thought that for real mapquest had like a brain fart and got us totally lost. Just then I looked up at this really pretty church, with a really odd sign out front. It was like a bulletin board, I was expecting it to say "repent for your sins", or "god is my homeboy"...but low and behold it said Ekoostik Hookah. It was the Mr Smalls venue, I asked Joel if this was for real? There was no parking lot, where would stage be? and I cant drink alcohol in a place of worship, do they want us all to go to hell LoL. I was confused He said it must be the place and I was relieved at least we knew where it was....so ok we found the venue, now what? We didnt want to drive all the way to NLQP after the show at like 1 in the morning so we decided we better find a hotel...Please please please read the NOTE above again!!! So we started to trek to find a hotel, after twenty minutes of driving around in what seemed to be a ceasepool of buildings so close that a mouse couldnt even fit through cracks between them...I finally hit my boiling point. There were no hotels in site, no way was I goin to go into the city and pay 200 smackers for a mere couple hours of sleeping it off. I called a friend that lives in butler for advice. She gave us directions to the econolodge, and after thirty more minutes and six phone calls later we FINALLY found it. Thanks LaCrisha. The econolodge was lets say, not horrible. It was under construction and covered in dust. The carpets in the hallways reminded me a episode out of csi, like they didnt wash the blood stains out of the carpet they just left them. Oh quite it, ur scaring me lol. We reached our room and by this time Joel and I both were a bit cranky from being lost in a city we didnt know...and woohoo two beds lol j/k. Being "home" gave us a chance to freshen up a bit. We turned to the t.v on and were happy to find that it changed from an array of colors form being bright green to purple but it was still better than nothing. Lucky for us my friend, LaCrisha, lived like 10 miles away and she knows the roads and said she would drive and even pick us up at the hotel. Shes a saint. We got ready to go and waited for LaCrisha. After a few she made it in and we were off to mr smalls. Unfortunalty I just got my new camera and I wasent 100 percent comfertable taking it to the venue so I have no concert pics... Once we paid and walked it, I was directly smacked right in the face with sweney and his blaring guitar. With this venue you walk right into the stage pretty much, but you know us were lushes so we headed back to the bar. Ir was way in the back, as they ordered I boogied to Right back out in the streets. The place was pretty packed, I guess for as big the place was. I couldnt see cause we were way in the back int he bar area and we couldnt take out drinks past a certain point...I mean there was like a guard there making sure! Sheepdog made me stomp my feet and do the chicken wing, by the that is a dance copywritten by me and no one can steal it...NO ONE lol! I was suppose to meet Dave when we got there but we ended up getting later than we expected so we didnt get to meet up. By the time they played goodtime, voodoo stew and deep river blues most of us were flying high. By the begining of the second set we were def front row center on Daves side. When he saw me he gave me a wave and I recipricated with a girly wave. Sun goes down I definatly was acting a fool, and when Cliff messed up his lyrics *D'oh* I pointed it out....loudly. Oh well, we all got to be the ass sometime right? My friend LaCrishas was having a great time, even though she procalimed that all the old guys would hit on her and it def came true. I saw at least three, shes like a magnet. I met some fellow hookahheads by the bathroom that were heading to washington Dc, OMG i cant remeber names...I feel horrible, I remeber Chris but the ladies names totally flew out my head. Indica-bottle of wine made me think of us wino girls talkin about drinkin. I wanted to txt Kelly but my phone was being a butthole and wasent working. By and when I die my ears were ringin horribley and because I had been up since 6 am that morning I was definatly done in. I got the last little bit of boogie out of my pants and followed LaChrisha out. She was our ride and we didnt want to be stranded. I really wanted to get something to eat but the only place that was open was "Sheets", we got our hamburgers and headed "home". Hugs and airkisses to LaChrisha and we were off to bed. Joel ended up passing out with his eyes open, i thought he was dead. He kept telling me to eat my hamburger and so I did, then he woke and yelled at me cause he wanted to eat with me...Im confused lol. He apologized and said he was drunk and tired and we headed off to bed. ...sleepy time, next stop NLQP....and bathroom to get rid of that horrible burger

Chaffee
Dont judge a book by its cover, we had a freakin BLAST this sat at Chaffee Gathering...Joel just likes to replace names with Butthole for some silly reason. So it finally came, sat, It was like any normal feaste sat: Joel and i got off work we packed, told my mom to eat my dust lol, and we were out of there.I had a set of ???'s for Joel to answer, just things about him that i felt like i didnt know, and so we answered those the whole way and just took that time to get to know each other even more. It was fantastic. We drove a long way, 3hrs, till we finally reached PA Once we hit PA it was just a short 10 min drive till you hit the camp area. It literally was like someones back yard and I loved every minute of it. I really enjoy the smaller venue...more family oriented. We parked and immediatly Commensed to Boozin As we went to search for KellyJoe we passed a really sticky and loud vw bus that someone was working on. Joel hysterically said Id love to sleep next to that lol, I go stop being mean what if that was us, He goes it would be funny if it was Kelly. As we got closer we noticed OMG it was Kell. As we walk up laughin hysterically, i gave the already having a wayyyyyy toooo good of time a Kelly a giant hug. She showed us around her booth and her vw.... ...and she finally introduced us to the incredibly nice and wonderful BrotherMike, If you really wan to find someone that is truely awesome person thoughout: Look for Brother mike After much chatting we were getting parched and i wanted to take some more shots before i lost the beautiful light. Def feeling good at this point lol So handsome:o) He gave me a Hitler Mustache LoLoLoLoL Tons more pics in my pic section under ~Chaffee Gathering~ Hookah was a blast what can i say, They blew our minds like always. We got to chat up with Eric and Dave. Eric complimented me on my eyebrows lol needless to say i was flattered lol. We chatted with Dave about the baby and Cassie.It was def a blast. Omg so much fun, see you all next weeknd:o)

Intimate Show...
I had to write a brief review ... Them boys were on fire this night ~ the crowd was fairly small and no audio tapers. But that did not stop E.H. from shredding it HARD !! At one point betweens songs, I looked up at Dave and said "Wow , what an intimate set ... its a shame noone is taping it!!". He looked down at me & said " thats why we are doing it !" and went right into Anthony's Song followed by sheepdog !!! 1st time i heard "i been down that road" since Muffins left (always been one of my fav. songs), chicago was NUTS, & Marry-go-round was also a great jam !!! Id sum it up as CLASSICS NIGHT !! made some new friends at the venue too !! ~ ill make the 3 hour drive to Erie everytime they play! worth every penny and mile ~!!! Thanks guys .... thanks Dubba !! cheers, Bean

Top Notch Show ~ Mind Blowing Start
absolutely amazing show .... the opener blew me away !!! the faces in the crowd were smiling, the sound of the music roared, and the energy was high enough to raise the roof to outer space ! Phil astounded me with his epic Timber Bass playing ... taking it as far as playing bass while rubbing the stem of the bass up and down his mic ... SOUNDED WILD !!! All in All ... if you weren't there you missed out !!! VISIT PITTSBURGH MORE OFTEN ~~ Thanks EH, Thanks DUBBA ~Bean

the crooked i erie pa
As always the guys did not disappoint. Loved that danced a slow tune w my guy. And the few songs they played I havent heard before. Cant wIt til the next one I can get to