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ig-news-digest sunday, february 5 2006 volume 09 : number 008
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[ig-news] sf fillmore night 2 sat. 1/28/06 [indigotraveller@aol.com]
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date: sun, 5 feb 2006 01:16:23 est
from: indigotraveller@aol.com
subject: [ig-news] sf fillmore night 2 sat. 1/28/06
[sherlyn's note: this is an excerpt of a message which was originally sent to
the indigo girls mailing list at netspace.org.]
night two at the fillmore was the final night of the leg. all the same
people were in the front. same opening set. same comments as yesterday.
same
strengths. same flaws.
[...]
tonight they opened with fill it up again. it was a good, musically upbeat
opener. both that and yield made suprisingly good openers, imo. i've also
always thought shame on you would be a great opener. have they ever started a
show with it?
heartache for everyone was kind of fun, but a little flat.
get out the map was much better than the night before. i'm not sure why,
but it was.
then, one of the nicest suprises of the evening - world falls. love that
song. that's another one that's even better outdoors (nature references are
just like that), but it was great, nontheless. i'd also love to hear hand me
downs from that album some time.
and how wonderful to have it be followed by let it be me. it's a crying
shame that 14 years later, we have another bush president and the content is as
meaningful as it was when she wrote it. still, what a great song it is.
also, it was fun to have them sing "common woman." while i'm sure that others
have brought it up since, i remember a&e being genuinely shocked when i
interviewed them 13 years ago and brought up sexist language in their writing.
it's been fun to see them regroup around it.
starckeville was good. not a favorite of mine.
hammer and a nail was a particularly good rendition. i don't like it
nearly as much as watershed or 10k wars, but it was a really, really good
performance.
land of canaan. what's to say? great song. great performance. fucking
brilliant!
power of two, its usually charming self.
yield. i already spoke my piece yesterday. loved it. always.
ghost was a nice surprise. definitely some powerful lines in that one. do
they ever play love will come to you?
go was pretty much the same. if i didn't know they had a band there, it
would've been fine. but thinking that they could be playing it with the band,
instead, definitely diluted its impact. it would be sooooo good with the
band? why tether with the band and not go?
closer to fine was with trina again. same same. all good.
dairy queen. same comments as yesterday.
our deliverance was a powerful piece. not a personal favorite, but the
political war commentary certainly carried emotional resonance.
next up was another highlight of the evening. by popular request, amy did
romeo and juliet. she was so cute. it's apparently been a long time since
she played it. she needed to take a few minutes to run through it under her
breath before starting. she told everyone that she might not remember the
words and that we should sing along and help her. that part wasn't a
problem. from the opening note, the crowd was all over it. while it was
great to
hear her do it, much like the last time i saw her pull it out of the closet,
i was a bit disappointed to not have the passionate, angstful version of days
past. both that last time and this time, she performed it in a more mature,
easy going, almost good humoured manner. not that that was bad. it was
charming and warm. however, i did miss the grit of how she used to do it.
part
way through, however, she did find that voice. that's when it really picked
up for me. all in all, it was a great suprirse. now if only she'd bring
out lucystoners and joking...
woodsong made the cut two days in a row.
then the ever popular chickenman. not a fave of mine, but i must confess
that this was a particularly strong performance. maybe the best i've ever
seen. i've long said that i prefer it acoustic. but tonight was really,
really
tight. they were just locked in. it was cool.
then the rest was the same. they closed the regular set with galileo, plus
the same three encore songs (trouble, tether, and midnight train). it was
another great show. it was a much stronger set list, imo. the show, however,
was two songs shorter. :-( more. i want more.
[...]
thanks to everyone who was there and who made it such fun!
lauren
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