| Great Big Sea at World Trade Center, NYC July 24, 2001 |
| > Best show I have seen in a long time! Alan was a little devil this evening. Clothes: Darrell -black Tee and black jeans Alan - Maroon pants and black tee and shiny black shirt He had his hair half up in a ponytail because of the wind. At one point the hair was coming out of the ponytail and he said to us "Talk amongst yourselves while I put the hair back." Séan - new black shirt (prolly bought today cause it still had the folds outlined real well on it like it just came out of the package) and blue jeans. He arrived at the stage in shorts and then changed in the band area. The others walked over wearing what they wore at the show. Bob in the new black bowling shirt with the circle thing on the sleeves and black pants. And that man had the bluest eyes I have ever seen in my 49 years of life! OMG! I was so mesmerized by them all night! Lots of chatters from the OKP there and other fans and some new people. Leslie from Texas and her friend were acknowledged by Alan from the stage (he must've had his contacts in), Fran and Carol, Howard and Cheryl, Tina, Jesse, Janet and her friend, Tim from Boston, Caroline and her friend, Karen and I, Gordon, Doug Shaw from the Long Island Maritime Museum, and a bunch of others, too. I left my notebook at the pizza place where we ate on the way home. I had to write most of this review from memory! I was very upset about it because my notes from the show were in it, but the story has a happy ending. I posted that I had left my notebook and Caroline emailed me to see which pizza place it was - Pronto Pizza on Liberty Street as it turns out. She works in NYC and called them to see if they had it. Lo and behold! they did and she went to pick it up and will give it back to me at our next GBS gig in NYC! Aren't chatroom people wonderful? |
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| Donkey Riding Billy Peddle When I'm Up Goin' Up - talked about the venue a bit and I think it was here that Alan said something like "wow! Here at the famous World Trade Center." Sean: "Yeah they trade hockey cards here. Bet you didn't bring your hockey trading cards Alan. Here you probably could get a Bobby Orr!" Everything Shines - Alan talked about how "just 4 days ago my grandmother declared Road Rage to be the best album ever made. Take your White Albums and break them, throw them out! Road Rage will be a collector's item." Old Black Rum - "Raise you arm as if you were drinking." There were people who had drinks and raised them. "As IF you had drinks! Wait - you actually HAVE drinks? Cool!" Then he says "but the guy in the gray shirt didn't do it, so we have to do it again." And we practiced another 3 or 4 times while Bob laughed his head off in the corner. |
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| The Night Pat Murphy Died - Sean: "This is a song of ironic detachment. A song about drinking and death -there's the ironic detachment part." When Sean sang "Every man was feeling gay...," he looked over to Alan and said, "Alan, we'll talk about that later." Alan cracked up at the mike and says to the audience after we waited for him to stop laughing, "I just thought of something really funny but I can't say it on stage. Meet us at the pub after the show, I'll tell ya then!" Consequence Free - Alan: "We can absolve you of your sins. We're all Catholic up here." Still looking around at the venue - "Wow! The World Trade Center - King Kong was right over there!" Boston and St. John's - At the end of the song, I swear the man was in tears. Either that or he's taking acting lessons - but I'll swear I saw a tear. He even turned away when Karen went to go take a picture. General Taylor Sea of No Cares - Alan explained how it was a new song and they were trying them out on the audiences. Alan: It's hard singing a new song. I try to teach everyone the chorus first because if you don't, you're up there for 3 1/2 minutes, scared, and nn one's singing." He went on for a while while Darrell, Sean and Bob just stood around, and then immediately started in on the song, catching Bob off guard. Then he smiled with an evil grin and said, "Oh, sorry, Bob." Lukey - nice long solo section with Alan joining in with what is usually Darrell and Sean only. I'm a Rover - Sean: "This is a song about breaking windows. Or, rather, opening windows. This song is dedicated to the women in the audience who have windows - especially the ones who have windows that open." Alan then says, "Uh, Sean, windows normally open." Then Sean goes back into the intro: "This is a song about a rover. The rover's name is Darrell - (pause and evil grin) - Darrell the Rover." While they were playing this, Alan wanted Danny to raise the level of his guitar on the soundboard and kept making head movements. Danny knew exactly what he wanted and messed with him a little threatening to turn it WAY up and then pretending he had when he hadn't. |
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| Bob snoozing |
| Sean's new blond hairdo - my first glimpse |
| Alan's hair pulled back for the night |
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