catechism Wrote:So, that was sort of awesome. I'm at the City & Colour show (they're not out yet); Gord finished his set a few minutes ago. Just him and an acoustic, short set but sweet, even if he was a little shaky in places. Someone in the front row has vid of the whole thing, so maybe that'll surface. I brought my camera, but couldn't use it.
The Rock (or whatever the first part of Depression Suite is; I almost fell over)
Dance & Its Disappearance
11th Fret
Gone
Morning Moon
East Wind
"We're forced to bed, but we're free to dream"
Dana
Thanks for making a new thread, Dana! Wasn't sure if I should, and am still on my phone. I did take a few shots of Sleeping Sickness that I'll try to put up once I get home, if they're any good. I was up front for Gord's set, but moved to the back once he left, to give the City & Colour fans my spot. I've seen them before, and they're not one of those bands I feel the need to see an infinite number of times. Guess I should have hung out for one more song, though. Oh well!
Okay, my computer/camera/something ate my photos, so I don't have any. I'm pretty sure they were terrible anyway. I can take good concert shots if I'm close and the light is good, but neither was the case.
So, I guess, a little more random tidbits. He came out in basically the WatS tour outfit and glasses, but he took them off after the first song because his nose was sweaty. I'm not sure he could see anything after that (he looked around and was like, "wait, where are we?") He didn't get chatty until "Gone," which he said is about Bruno Schultz, a Polish writer who was killed by the Nazis. At that point, someone in the crowd yelled 'yeeah!' and I'm not sure it was in response to Gord, but he stopped and was like, "...did someone just say 'yeah?' That's probably the most daring piece of art that'll happen tonight, folks. This one's called 'Gone.' Yeah!" I lost the Schultz thread for a second; I'm not sure if he said that it was Schultz' parents or a couple in one of his books (he wrote three, I believe), where the man loved the woman far more than she loved him. I really feel like it was Schultz' parents he was talking about, but who knows. I haven't read anything by him.
Anyway, 'Gone' was played on a different guitar (I don't know all his guitars; it was a Yamaha acoustic, and the other one was smaller and way more beat up) than all the others, and when he tried to go into 'Morning Moon' it really just wasn't working. He tried to start it a few times, unsuccessfully, and then said he would have to skip it and move on to 'The East Wind.' But then he asked Billy if it was in open G tuning, and Billy came out and tuned the guitar while Gord talked more about nuclear reactors in Darlington. I'm not sure the Chicago crowd was very concerned about Darlington (sorry, my northern neighbors!), but he did get a lot of "hell yeahs!" when he started talking about how the Great Lakes are in the public domain, and we shouldn't let anyone mess with them. And then he said that usually he blows Billy when Billy sorts out his problems, and everyone cheered, and then he played his Lake Ontario songs.
