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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: How many total fingers does a human have? Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Fluffy[/i] [br]Friday nite may have been our best stop in Wilkes Barre. Although the turnout was not as great as some of our past stops, all the seats were full and it was an amazingly quiet and attentive crowd. Normally with the bar down the whole stage right side of the room the bar chatter can become quite noticeable. This was not the case Friday. First, Tom had redone the dressing room area and created a door right onto the stage from the dressing room, very convenient. In the past, you had to walk thru the kitchen and hope to not run into one of the servers charging in and out of the doors delivering food and drinks to the patrons. We had talked about this with him many TIMes in the past and were glad to see that it had finally happened. Funnier still was the fact that all 3 of us kept forgetting about the door into the dressing room since we were so used to going thru the kitchen. Great example of "Pavlov's Dog". LOL I think TR only used that door twice, once to go onstage for the show and leave the stage after the show. All other entrances and exits were done the old fashioned way that he had been conditioned from our many past stops at the venue. We decided he might just like walking thru the kitchen. LOL As well as the new door and dressing room, they also have a new soundsystem that kicked all kinds of ass over the old one even though the old one was pretty good in the past. I don't think we had ever had a BAD show there due to sound, but the new system RAWKED! I am told Tom will be working on a patio as well in the not too distant future. Something to look forward to for next TIMe. We were treated to an awesome opening set from George Wesley whose reggae/rock/calypso world beat sound always gets the crowd worked up. He even did a late nite set after TR finished and the entire room was up and dancing. I think his late nite set was even more impressive than the the opening set for my tastes at least. GW uses an metal front, MIDI, Martin that I am told there are only 2 of, and he has both. It's quite a setup he uses with a massive bank of pedals allowing him to play every imagineable instrument on the guitar. It really disconcerting, while at the same TIMe amazingly fascinating to see him playing a guitar but hearing a steel drum sound bursting forth from the speakers. Both (c)Rew and myself commented on it. Definitely check out GW if you get the chance and you think your tastes might include a calypso version of Marcus Eaton MEETS TR. GW is also a great singer as well. After listening to the audience treat George with such respect we knew we were in for a great nite from TR. His set looked a bit like this from his written setlist perspective: A Sneaky Hollow Beam Of Darkness Somewhere In Eye Land Loose Enterpretation Chatterbox/Continue This Is The One Betrayal Dreaming She's Not Your Woman? A song for drinking (A True Test of Weightlessness In Space....) Bird Monkey Breakdown ---------------------------------------------- Sinceritox Turn It To Love Do It Yourself Coco In The Wild Strominstein Body Parts Death Squad TV ------------------------------------------------- The Mind Is A Terrible Waiste to Thing Smells So Sweet Soul Sacrifice (dream solo) ------------------------------------------------- Doom Ancestors White House Denies If The Ocean Had It's Way ------------------------------------------------ Special Jellies Cold Sweat some sort a way far away Sadly given the TIMe that has elapsed since the show I can't recall all the corrections. Not to worry, the show was recorded by 2 sources so I am sure you will all get to hear it. One of them was the same guy who recorded last TIMe and said he had already sent those recordings to jsemon so I would assume he will have this one as well pretty soon. Good thing, because TR premiered and amazing new song tonite, She's Not Your Woman. What an absolutely beautiful, simple song. Lyrically it can bring tears to my eyes the way that "Sister" did in Boston. I have heard it before on a CD TR recorded but I was always unsure if he would ever play it live. I am happy to say he did and it sounded so sweet live. He seemed to enjoy playing it and when I talked to him after he seemed to feel like it would find it's way into future sets. I certainly hope it does, it's amazing. TR's rendition of Santana's Soul Sacrifice was spectacular tonite as well. The audience particularly seemed to love that one as well as the new, what-seems-to-be fan fave, This Is The One. That song really seems to get the crowd going. I think some folks are someTIMes intimidated by TR's playing at first but when they hear him having fun with a song like this it really lightens the mood and allows people to laugh with TR as well as just enjoy his amazing guitar prowess. He seems to have as much fun playing it as the fans have hearing him sing those crazy lyrics. It always gets a rousing response. When I first heard it in all it's glorious silliness I figured it would be a short lived "novelty" piece but it has definitely grown into a piece that will stand the test of TIMe in TR's setlist. Thanx to Tom, Jannell, Sara, Henry, Ben and the rest of the staff at River St for taking wonderful care of us as always and making us feel like one of the family. Can't wait for a return engagement and Tom told me he would see about getting Peter Prince on the bill with us our next TIMe thru. Whooohoooo! [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.