[DANDOM-NYC] Beacon Internet Request Night Report

[Don Bloom]

Nice reviews.  There are always at least one or two a--holes who have to stand up throughout the show and sing along so loudly that they interfere with others' listening experience. 

One question to anyone who can help. I would like to collect some downloads of performances from this tour for listening purposes only.    I have not been able to figure out how to take You Tube downloads and save just the audio files to my hard drive.   I just want to be able to listen to good quality versions of recently record Dan tune on my home stereo (Dating myself there, lol) or on my iPod.  Can anyone help me?   

Thanks in advance. 

On Sep 23, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Robert Rinderman <rinderman at jcir.com> wrote:

> Excellent account of the show, JWIII
> 
> I saw the first show of the current tour in Seattle & last night
> 
> YGT sounded somewhat awkward in Seattle but was flawless @Beacon
> 
> Bodhisattva also sounded more energetic & better than I've ever seen it done
> by them live (seen ~dozen shows since '93)
> 
> They all look like they are really enjoying themselves on-stage & it's
> especially amazing to see the evolution of Donald as a performer since he
> got back on the road in '93...saying he's so much looser now is a huge
> understatement
> 
> I was in lower left balcony & sound was excellent there, plus sightlines to
> stage were great
> 
> Attendees were generally pretty mellow up there with the exception of a
> certain loudmouth sitting near me
> 
> -Rob
> 
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> Beacon Internet Request Night, 22 Sept 2011 Setlist and Report 
> 
> Intro: Dizzy's Bidness 9:02 PM 
> 
> Your Gold Teeth
> Aja
> Black Friday
> Hey 19
> Time Out Of Mind
> Show Biz Kids
> Bodhisattva
> FM
> GodWhacker
> Home At Last
> Papa Don't Mess/Band Intros
> Rikki
> Dirty Work
> Do It Again
> Josie
> Peg
> My Old School
> Reelin' In The Years 
> 
> Encore: Kid Charlemagne
> Untouchables Theme ~11:22 PM 
> 
> The setlist was about what I would have predicted, based on the evolution of
> "Request Night" setlists this tour. I came to this show with a different
> mindset: just sit back and enjoy things I had likely already heard during
> the Beacon run. With that in mind, this show was still well worth attending.
> Any time I can watch a top-notch band at its peak, the setlist is secondary.
> 
> 
> IMHO, the band ABSOLUTELY NAILED everything tonight. They came out with a
> smoking version of YGT and never let up. Of course, nearly the entire
> setlist was made up of standard songs from this tour, so I would have
> expected the band to be tight. Possibly the "hometown" sentiment enhanced
> the performance The entire band, and Donald especially, seems to be bringing
> a little something extra to the Beacon shows. 
> 
> At some point during YGT I started to notice that everything sounded better
> than it had the previous nights. I was wondering if it was the drink I was
> finishing, but everything continued to sound as good for the entire show. 
> So the sound crew is still making improvements, apparently. 
> 
> Donald sounded strong from the start, and he was really on fire for Black
> Friday; I can't recall him belting out lines like that before. 
> After the first couple of lines of Hey 19 were clearly a sing-along, Donald
> said, "You know this one". Walter's monologue noted that we had changed
> seasons, and commemorated the arrival of autumn with a brief rhyme, the
> second half of which went, "When there's frost on the pumpkin, it's time for
> dicky dunkin'". At least I think I got that right; I missed that one in
> elementary school. 
> 
> FM featured a solo by Roger Rosenberg; I can't recall if that version has
> been done before. 
> 
> Donald had a bit of fun with the crowd when he did a little Rhodes solo
> teasing us with "Do It Again", but then started into "Rikki". 
> 
> Now to the crowd tonight, which was the most unusual I have ever seen. There
> was maybe a 5% standing ovation for Aja, and then nothing until Bodhisattva,
> which finally got a decent standing ovation. Then it was back to the normal
> malaise, and seat vacating for various purposes. Perhaps in some language
> the term "Godwhacker" translates into "time for a beer"; if so, I await
> enlightenment from one of the many in the crowd tonight who apparently made
> this connection. 
> It was rather comical to watch the crowd rush back in when Home At Last
> started. 
> I can imagine the collective "Hey, I KNOW that one; I had better get back in
> there!" in the lobby. 
> 
> I have to give the crowd credit for refraining from shouting requests during
> Jim's enthralling Josie intro. Not that things were completely quiet, but
> the crowd noise was reduced to a low buzz of people quietly talking among
> themselves. That was enough for me to hear the solo clearly, and this is one
> way I judge the overall sound quality. Last night was remarkably clear; the
> best so far at the Beacon. It was not quite like having Beard "in your
> living room" as I think Lurker Ray said about Pechanga. And my seats at
> Pechanga were in the fourth row; here we are about 24 rows from the stage.
> So my compliments again to the sound crew for getting possibly the optimum
> sound quality attainable at the Beacon. 
> 
> All this magically changed when Peg started, and the crowd was on its feet
> to stay for the remainder of the show. In my view, the crowd should have
> blown the roof off of this place tonight for the performance they got. 
> 
> I should add that for this show I was near the back of the orchestra
> section, and could not see what was going on in the loge or balcony. And
> almost all shows have more energy at the end, but I have never witnessed
> such a contrast in audience reaction over the course of a two-hour show. 
> 
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