Philly Show Setlist + Pictures + mini overview
 

Although I wish they played more older songs, they still fucking killed. Considering it was only the second night of the tour, they're still learning to play most of the new stuff live and want to get it down first before they go back into the old catalogue more. But I was a little bummed about the Expressway thing too, yet Lee's guitar skills on Or were quite a sight (check the pics!!). For me though, it was such a great night. Drove 2 hours to philly, waited for 2 hours and saw Coco and a bunch of her friends hanging out! She looks like Thurston so much it's ridiculous. And Be Your Own Pet was a lot of fucking fun (pics) and just like blasted through their set. The girl was real cute too. And just hearing Kim wittingly say, since some people were asking for some really old songs they obviously wouldn't be played, that "this song is so fucking old it's older than all of you" made the night. And PCH, holy shit amazing. As far as my first sonic experience goes, quite a good night.

Here we go evry'body:

Incinerate
What A Waste
Pattern Recognition
Do You Believe In Rapture
Reena
Rats
Sleepin' Around
Turquoise Boy
Jams Run Free
Lights Out
PCH
Pink Steam
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The Neutral
Shaking Hell
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Or

And some wonderful pics:

























uploading about like 100 more pics as we speak, here's my photobucket link http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/buddhaBeatz/ . Sorry about the size on the kim one, it's the only size that does the pick justice! __________________

Thanks drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty

she said something like that before they played the old stuff @ CB's too. she often repeats herself. guess she figures it's a different audience...

I remember her saying "this song so old, it's new" at the paris radio show but the context she used it in, just to make fun of the fans, was hilarious.

I clearly remember her saying "This song's so fucking old, it was made before you were born".

Thanks, I couldn't remember exactly.

Thanks for the review. Yr first SY concert experience is similar to mine.
When they played "PCH" I couldn't tell what song it was, then when I realised what song it was, I went nuts.
Can't wait to see them again this Saturday.

I've got almost all the pictures up now, the view of everyone (except thurston, he was a little far) was so awesome, even with my 15-55mm lens.

So the official word is lots of noise and feedback, everyone? I just want to check before I take my friend who doesn't like the new album, but is crazy about extended noise jams.

not really a lot of noise and feedback. some, yes. pattern recognition, yes. nowhere near the crazy shit on the shows i saw last year. thurston did almost stick his guitar in the ceiling fan though.

I was right next to Thurston, I will be posting these pics soon.

Did you get a good glimpse at their pedal boards? Lee's board looks like it has a frequency analyzer on it, but I couldn't tell because it was a rather artistic shot.

Edit:
You did take pics!



I see a moog (he got a better expression pedal too), a microsynth (which must have been Kim's), a blue box, a tube factor, an ibanez delay, and a digitech delay. the Line 6 is gone. What is that silver box with gray knobs?

Nope, no frequency analyzer on Lee's board, maybe Kim's or Thurstons?


Kims board- Oh wait, that is a Hot Tubes. So tuner, vol, hot tubes, octave fuzz, TS-9, turbo rat?, some wierd silver pedal, and a mutron wah/vol that she must have stolen from thurston. I don't see her moog delay, maybe it was Jim's?

I see thurston's board- blue box, phase 90, octave fuzz, turbo rat or black muff?, wierd silver thing, and a volume pedal.

What is it with SY and wierd silver boxes?

Someone else who was closer to Kim and Thurston probably got a better shot of their pedal boards, I was a little too far away to get a good one. But I had a perfect angle for Lee's.

always happy to read these rewievs mate! keep em coming!
as we here in europe wont have much chance to see sy this year...

thanks for the philly reportage and the pics. i didn't see any BYOP pics in your photobucket, but i got a kick out of the implication that yo la tengo and dinosaur jr were on the bill last night by their inclusion.

Haha, yeah surprise guests!! No, those were from last year. But I just put the BYOP pics up.

nice. nice Germs reference on the t-shirt, too. seeing/hearing BYOP live is like mainlining pixie stix.

Here is pics of Thurston going nuts and leaning on top of me:

Hitting the fan:

Those are awesome mineral. Oh Thurston, that madman.

Is it ok if I post those pics on an effects board forum to try and figure out what all the effects on their boards are? I'm a nerd like that.

Cool with me man.

excellent pics, you must have been to my left a few people over

i took about 200 pics of both bands, but i don't have time til saturday at the earliest to upload them, and jennthebenn will have an extensive classic review up at some point for all the shows

Heres the best pedal pic frm the other side that I have (sorry its probably not much of a help):

Wow, really great pics.
That was a really good setlist as well.

Thanks, and it was pretty good. I just hope by the time I see them again in august, they play few more older songs. But for this leg of the tour, they're still learning them anyway so it's fine with me.

Cool!! you've got a pic of Thurston's sweaty armpits :D Must have been a pretty intense show!!!

Nice CBGB strap.

Yeah, Im kinda surprised they only played 2 older songs. I was hoping they would do a few from the EP since they just rereleased it. I would love to see the Burning Spear or I Dreamed I Dream live! But Shaking Hell would be cool and PCH always rocks.

Damn, I wish they played expressway.

wow!
thank you all for awesome pics and nice reviews!
keep em coming!

that guy in the background....is that Mark Ibold, I was wondering where he was.