5/02/02 Review
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Submitted by Aaron Boedeker
Wow. Let me say that first...wow. OK now the review. The band came out onto the stage quietly, like they usually do, and I heard Dave playing with his guitar in Drop-D tuning, and I called Don't Drink the Water. Nice version. For the second song, I was thinking he might play What Would You Say or So Much To Say. I hoped for Anyone Seen the Bridge ... but, no. Granny was cool. I Did It was pretty much the same, except Boyd added a little violin strumming to the verse part. I was also thinking that would be a pretty good song to sing when your fed up with trying to please impossible people. You Never Know... I heard Carter play on what I think is some kind of woodblock, and I knew this was coming. But he kept playing for about two or three minutes and did a little solo on just this woodblock, and it was pretty cool. I enjoyed it. Ohhhhh Crush. Crush was awesome. The song on the album is itself awesome. But they added this jam onto the end that kicked ass. During transitions, Carter kept the beat going using a lot of dead space. It was really cool. Drive In Drive Out. My sister was very pleased to hear this. This song is just fun. I don't think there is any set lyrics to this. Dave was just making up stuff on the spot, and it was awesome. I love it when he does that. There was a guy who went with us who was a trumpet major and minor in percussions, and he's a big Carter fan. He told me that Carter uses his own technique on this song that he calls drive in drive out. He did the whole body motion and everything. I said well that's cool, because the song is called Drive In Drive Out. I heard that Dave wrote this song because he knew Carter could something cool with the rythmn, but I didn't know that they named the song after one of his techniques. Grace is Gone. Great depressing song (I'm not being sarcastic) One drink to remember/ Another to forget. What You Are. This is probably one of my top three songs on the Everyday album. Hearing it live is so much better. The intro is more drawn out with the eerie distant wailings. The outro was pretty passionate. Dave actually stopped playing, and was pumping his fist out while getting lyrics out that he was making up on the spot. I have never seen him do that before and it was really awesome. (I wonder how many times I've said the words "cool" and "awesome" so far). One Sweet World. The intro to this is really cool. Just a few minutes of soothing jazz. Really nice. Fool to Think. One of the other top three songs on Everyday for me. Good to hear. Pig. I've waited four years to hear this song live. Great. Grey Street. A great song. Where Are You Going. A really sweet song. The song's going to be released this month and I know its going to be big. Probably the next Space Between. Which reminds me, the played that sometime in the evening before in the middle of the night. I was really suprised how much the crowd loved this song. Probably the "crowd favorite" of the evening. The Space Between, that is. Ants Marching. You just can't go wrong with this song. Boyd used some kind of peddle for special effects on his violin that I never seen him use before. The encore. The most amazing thing, I thought, about when Dave played Long Black Veil, was that they turned the T.V. screens off, have the one spotlight on Dave, and you look around and see thousands of people just listening to this one guy on stage, who looks tiny. That concept is just amazing and really powerful. Watchtower. I really like how the band goes --> Stefan Solo --> Stefan and Dave jam --> Watchtower. The song itself, how can you go wrong. Okay now some side stuff. Stefan was awesome throughout the whole show. When he was on the screen, the stuff they should him doing was amazing. The whole band is amazing.
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