[kj] (OT) The Cult Live in SoCal

[melinda grant]

that footage of the cult looked really good,impressive sound,glad you had a 
good time,you sound on top of the world today t.b are you still high  ;=D

  and although i am not an appreciator of the cults music,i still dont mind 
adding my 2 dollars worth concerning there overall presentation, btw thanks 
for posting.

melinda   ps  are your ears ringing,and your eyes heavy today after that gig 
and the lack of sleep  [=)?     the trade marks of a good night befor  id 
say  ;-D !!!!



>From: "T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>

>Reply-To: "T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>,"A list about all things 

>Killing Joke (the band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

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><gathering at misera.net>

>Subject: [kj] (OT) The Cult Live in SoCal

>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:31:52 -0700

>

>Caught The Cult Friday night in Anaheim at The Grove.  This is about the 

>10th or 11th time I've seen them since '85 during the "Love" tour.  I've 

>pretty much lost track how many times I've seen them.

>

>Really solid show, maybe a bit better overall than the last show I caught 

>which was last year's show in Los Angeles.  The venue holds around 1,900 

>people and it kind of reminds me of a small aircraft hanger that's been 

>built up to a theater club.  The place is on the corner of the parking lot 

>for the Anaheim Stadium which happened to have the huge Christian Harvest 

>Festival going on tonight which Ian joked about a couple times during the 

>show ("They're having a religious show, we're having a pagan show").  It 

>was pretty cool running into people who I recognized and who recognized me 

>from previous Cult shows going back to the '02 "Farewell" shows at The 

>Wiltern and last years show in LA.

>

>The audience was very well behaved, in fact perhaps a bit too well behaved, 

>almost sedate at times even though it was standing general admission.  In 

>past shows with a less than responsive audience, I've seen Ian and even 

>Billy get a bit pissed off but they seemed to focus on delivering a top 

>notch performance and didn't try to aggressively rile up the audience.  The 

>sound was decent depending on where you were.  I spent the first half of 

>the show about 3 people back from the stage in the pit and Billy's guitar 

>was nice, up front and loud but Ian's vocals were tough to make out.  I 

>moved about halfway back during "Revolution" and Ian's vocals were much 

>more prominent in the mix.

>

>"Horse Nation" opened the show and the first 4 songs through "Electric 

>Ocean" just rocked. In fact, Electric Ocean along with a truly inspired 

>version of The Phoenix complete with acid-flashback guitar intro were 

>probably the highlights for me. It was also nice to get Spiritwalker" and 

>"Nirvana" early in that group of songs. New songs "Dirty Little Rock Star" 

>and "I Assassin" sounded much more powerful than any of the various YouTube 

>clips I've seen thus far.  The sorta acoustic version of "Revolution" is 

>excellent with Ian ad-libbing a lot of lyrics. Also nice was the one-two 

>punch of "In The Clouds" and "The Witch," which incidentally had the best 

>bass sound of any live version I've ever heard. This is probably the first 

>show I've seen since '87 that they didn't include "Li'l Devil" in the set, 

>which I honestly didn't mind losing (they played it Saturday night in Del 

>Mar and thankfully dropped "Wonderland" which has become stale).

>

>And of course, no Cult concert review would be complete without the Billy 

>report.  As anyone who's remotely familiar with The Cult knows, guitarist 

>Billy Duffy is probably one of the more tempremental players onstage and 

>seems to suffer more technical difficulties than anyone I've ever seen.  

>I'm happy to say he appeared to have a pretty good night as far as 

>equipment issues, the worst problems he seemed to have was occasionally 

>strongly gesturing at his side stage monitor guy to raise his wedge monitor 

>levels a few times while he was playing.  He looked pretty pleased with 

>himself and the way the show unfolded.

>

>Overall, The Cult has always been one of the most reliable and consistantly 

>good bands I've seen. In over 2 decades worth of shows, I've yet to catch a 

>bad one.  BTW, someone already posted a live clip on YouTube from last 

>night. Here's "Rain."

>

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51IFq5Eh0g

>

>The setlist:

>

>Horse Nation

>Nirvana

>Spiritwalker

>Electric Ocean

>Fire Woman

>In The Clouds

>The Witch

>Wonderland

>Revolution (acoustic with Mike)

>Edie (full band)

>Rain

>I Assassin (new song)

>Phoenix (great extended guitar solo opening)

>Rise

>Wildflower

>Love Removal Machine

>   Encore:

>Dirty Little Rockstar (new song)

>Sanctuary

>

>T.B.

>

>

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