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just curious about the glace bay show, anyone know how it was??

Try here..........
http://media.locals.ca/localsconf/viewt ... p?t=107358

It was one of the fucking raddest things I ever saw.

The poster nearly made me cry. (I'd post an image...but that would spoil the surprise for a certain someone.)

it was fucking amazing. one of the best concerts i've ever been to. The crowd was so into it. they played for over 2 hours too

Please... do tell.

-- Rolly

pm me the poster i wanna seee it.

I mean about how fckn rad it was.

-- Rolly

Oh wait...you wanted to know about the show?

Very intense fanbase presence (mostly local, but still), with little or none of the douchebaggery present at the Halifax show, lots of distant relatives in the crowd (I reckon 40-50 accredited family members were there after the show for the private after-party), including Buddy MacMaster and sitting next to me Jack's delightful 94-year-old great aunt, who turned off her hearing aid (she didn't need it) and covered her eyes from the strobe lights.

Missed Dan Sartain this time, due to the dicking around about my ticket (it was at the front box office all the time, just misfiled or something), but caught Ashley's set. When he fiddled it was golden, but the poor lad should only be given a microphone when he has to announce the name of the next song. Ended his set with a duet with Buddy. Crowd goes bananas. Later on during the Stripes set, Jack thanks Buddy several times (he knows that having Buddy on the bill is the Celtic equivalent of doing a blues show with Lightnin' Hopkins...and it shows, very effusive).

Stripes come on, simple set up with just a pure red cloth backdrop. They rock the shit out of that place for two-and-a-half hours. I'm in the second row on the aisle, losing my mind. Jack is much more, uh, "dramatic" for lack of a better word, probably because the whole thing is being filmed for a DVD of their Canadian tour. Very expressive and energized. Carmen Townsend is in the same row as me, and we keep looking at each other with these looks of "I can't believe this is fucking happening" on our faces. (Later she weasels her way to the front of the stage...at one point Jack sticks a mic into the crowd during, I think, Fell In Love With a Girl and I can see her straining to be near it....)

At some point they play Dylan's One More Cup of Coffee. I freak out.
The encore starts with Black Math. I freak out.
Then they do You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl) and I freak out again. All three were on my wish list for Halifax, and weren't played there.

Fewer Get Behind Me Satan Songs, and I'm okay with that.
No Conquest ... bummer.

They played Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn off Icky Thump, with Jack on mandolin and Natalie MacMaster's piper, Matt MacIsaac playing the lowland pipes (kinda like the irish pipes, but with a bag as well as bellows). Audience goes nuts.

At the end, they come out with the pipes and drums, waving a Nova Scotia flag and a Cape Breton flag, the audience erupts in a wave of catharsis. Jack gushes about how nice everyone's been in Nova Scotia and how great it is to finally come "home." I'm getting a bit weepy just thinking about it.

Very good summation swac, the show was OFF THE MEAT RACK.

Soon as I got past the ticket guy I saw Carmen and she was like "OMG Guess who's in the mens fucking bathroom....Mike Gordon from Phish!". There were many of his music friends throughout from what I hear.

One of my all time favorite shows, which is all the more cool because I was born and raised and live in Glace Bay and have been to the savoy about a hundred times...I remember watching the Peanut Butter Solution there when I was a kid and they used to have a screen.

The sick thing about the Savoy is that not only is it a beautiful theatre, but it's all red throughout. There were about 5 guys going with cameras all night, the footage should be brilliant.

I also bought the poster, didn't even hesitate.

It was definitely one of the most mixed crowds I've ever seen at a rock show, age wise...there were moms, dads, grandparents, teachers, community folk, toddlers, rockers, you name it, they were all going off.

The balcony was jammed and there were a half a dozen banners hung over it wishing them a happy 10th, welcoming them to Cape Breton and thanking them for sharing it with us.

You were even allowed to take beer to your seats and if you knew a little something something there was a secret bar and lounge room upstairs with hardly anybody at it.

If you showed up anytime after Ashley started you could have walked right into that place, they stopped checking tickets, I came and went outside a few times and nobody was around looking at tickets.

I hope they come back, and in my dreams they will play their next set at the Red Show Pub in Mabou with all the cousins.

Meg White is way more sexy than I had previously thought.

Here's some pics:

Buddy & Ashley
















I need a better picture of this. They are waving a Cape Breton and a Nova Scotia flag.

Medley - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNlzm7hDEbQ
Prickly Thorn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHgtwMiRNG4
Boll Weevil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpXoQZI7fE

Still Stunned, and deaf.
C

Here's how it ended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFDTNaCxNIQ

I also just spotted this on wikipedia:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_stripes

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I am one teary mofo reading about this...it was the new moon as well...sounds like instant rock and roll enlightenment...good on all yall, wish I could have been there.

I was shocked that no one once looked at my ticket.. I went to my seat, back to the merch table... back to my seat, back for beer...back for more beer and NO ONE LOOKED AT MY TICKET... if you seemed to know where you were going no one asked...

I was on the balcony and my seat was way in the back, but my friend and I found a nice empty spot right at the front row of the balcony... so it was a nice upgrade...

Great show....
swac summed it up perfectly...

This ones for you sparrow.