Murray Attaway opened.

NOTE - the setlist for this show was initially different; we've made edits per the first review below and the newspaper clipping we have. Original setlist is preserved below the reviews for reference.

Well, I missed meeting woj at last night's concert but it was amazing anyway! :)

Murray Attaway wasn't bad at all. The crowd had probably never heard of him, since almost no one clapped when he came on, but they really warmed up to him by the end. He got almost as much applause as Robyn! He did the Cheers! theme, too... (But not Freebird...)

Robyn's show was just wonderful. I met a few people and got talking to them. I told them about the net and all and they were really excited. So we may get a few new subscribers soon...

Here's the setlist as I remember it:
(Driving Aloud)(something...)(Chinese Bones)(The Yip Song)(Queen Elvis)(Arms Of Love)(Element Of Light)(Vegetation and Dimes)(Oceanside)(The Gates Of Wisdom)(Globe Of Frogs)(Clean Steve)(Only The Stones Remain)(The Moon Inside)(Cynthia Mask)(Listening To The Higsons)(Wafflehead)(The Wreck of the Arthur Lee)(Egyptian Cream)(Kung Fu Fighting)

I taped it, too. It came out really well once I got the damn thing to work... My batteries died after Driving Aloud! So I had some AAAs but not any AAs... So I ripped the top off a Rolling Rock can and shoved it and the AAAs in the compartment and got it working! So I missed the second song (what was it? Railway Shoes?) and most of Chinese Bones. Also, the tape ran out at the end of Egyptian Cream so I missed Kung Fu Fighting... But it really sounds great (not the BEST but not bad at all) if anyone wants a copy... Or if anyone ELSE recorded the show!

In all, well worth the drive from Worcester (about 2 hours...) and the $15 it cost to get in. One of the better shows I've attended...

And you should have seen Andy's expression when Robyn started imitating David Crosby...

Stephe Lewis Foskett


thursday night was new haven and, in a nutshell, this show was incredible. i wasn't taping this show, so i didn't have to worry about that, and toad's place is just a better venue for small-scale gigs: a lower stage, a more intimate atmosphere (the ritz in new york is a converted theatre, yes, but it's still an annoying dance club as well), no strobe lights. granted, the music the club played before the show was a little overbearing (classic rock and pop videos from the late 80s| bon jovi| ack|), but it is still a much nicer venue to
see a show. i was in a particularly good mood as well. the band seemed to be in one too. whereas, in new york, robyn seemed kind of detached from the audience, he seemed to be having a rather good time (i'd like to attribute that to the difference in crowds: new york was a 16+ show and new haven was 21+, but that just may be my prejudice). the set list was already posted, so i'll just say that i was particularly surprised by "listening to the higsons" and that "vegetation and dimes" was probably the best i've ever heard them
play it. high point of the show: when andy's roland refused to work at the beginning of "the wreck of the arthur lee." i grabbed one of the setlists on the way out.

i didn't get a chance to talk to robyn at either show (new york, i was just pooped and i had to drive back from new haven to new jersey), but i did see carolyn and trudi in new york. i'm not at all surprised that they know about this list - i explained it all to carolyn once and i'm sure that she told robyn about it sometime. i guess a letter to le wafflehead is in order, hm?

as for murray attaway.... well, i cut my teeth on that whole southeastern america jangle rock thang - let's active, the connells, guadacanal diary and so on. of course, as i was doing so, i was stranded in a small town in upstate new york (way way upstate) so i never got a chance to see any of these guys when they were operative. guadacanal diary was one, in particular, that i missed so it was really nice to see murray perform even if only solo. they played two guad songs ("life goes on" and "watusi rodeo") in new york and
only the later one in new haven, but i was also quite impressed with his new material as well. a few extraneous guitar solos here and there and a certain amount of polish that never surfaced with guadacanal diary, but i think i'll be buying _in thrall_ (or is it _enthrall_?) sometime soon.

whee

+woj

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Setlist as originally noted for this show (Deprecated)
Chinese Bones
A Globe of Frogs
Cynthia Mask
Queen Elvis
Clean Steve
Egyptian Cream
Only the Stones Remain
Listening to the Higsons
Airscape
Oceanside
Vegetation and Dimes
The Yip Song
Arms of Love
The Moon Inside
Railway Shoes
The Wreck of the Arthur Lee
Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)
Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom
Wafflehead
Almost Cut My Hair Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Kung Fu Fighting Carl Douglas