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on Friday March 06 2009, @09:00PM
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set list? (Score:0)
setlist from the forums (Score:2, Informative)
The show had no encore and ended with a Pigsty/How Soon is Now finale after about 65 minutes. Moz said no goodbye or thank you.
Not sure what the deal is, but the whole thing seemed Maladjsted Tour-esque, with the lack of closure at the end. I hope he is OK.
I didnt write anythnig down but it went something like this:
skull
mama
this charming man
black cloud
best friend
first of the gang
paris
how can anybody possibly know
seasick
sister
ask
I keep mine hidden
all you need is me
crashing bores
pigsty
How soon is now
I'm heading to atlanta in the AM........ I'm moderatly concerned, if I can be frank.
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setlist clarification (Score:1)
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?p=1107657#post1107657
Didn't mean to make it look like I posted it.
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w0w (Score:0)
Only 4 New Songs/ 3 Smiths songs? (Score:0)
thetexasbloke
Vocals. (Score:1)
I would write more about the things he said, but it is late and I have work in a few hours. Please forgive me! I'm sure someone will post more soon.
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Still hope for the future (Score:1)
His choice of old tracks may seem strange, but isn't it always like that with old Moz? Personally I think that´s just a part of the thrill - trying to work out which odd songs he will play this time.
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Nail polish? (Score:0)
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=1107678&postcount=12
Dreadful (Score:3, Informative)
Threatened to leave after Best Friend saying "It's not gonna work out if you don't turn it down" to soundman.
Came out with "Nothing is finer..."
Huge sailor with muscles n cigar in mouth as back drop.
Gave signed record to man in front...weird...thanked crowd for the record doing well.
I Keep Mine...it was a disaster...almost unrecognisable...
Ask was the highlight. He was peppy during How Can Anybody Possibly KNow How I feel.
Walked off stage twice..first time for 5 minutes. The crowd was lame- 50% hung out at bar. I was on the rail in front...only four security bashing back one attempt.
The aforementioned setlist is accurate. Boz looked shellshocked and Jesse was antsy. Matt was excellent as was Soloman. Some bearded weirdo slammed on the keys causing noise mostly.He was jazz improvising snuck in. I believe he will be let go soon....
This was very upsetting...expect cancellations, he is sick, at least emotionally. Worst I've seen since Southpaw tour...He is on an emotional rollercoaster.
Called the show a cheap Friday night date alluding to bad ticket sales and low price for Moz show.
I feel ripped off and risked my life trying to navigate the goats and cattle on one lane cracked up roads to get there.
I hope he enjoyed the veggie fare available in room service bc Hooters and Lobster huts and clam bake shacks don;t do asparagus with couscous
Son of a monkey's nut that was bad deal to start and went downhill from there.
Durham here I come,,,we;ll see. I go have to say I enjoyed my new yoga teacher friend..She was a delight,
Red Cortez was tight and intense and wandered amongst us mongrels and floor rats for attention...What to do when glared at suspiciously by the lead singer stommppping aroung in the many bars
And were all treated to god awful fart in the pit. There were kids and small lillipullian-like folk just trying with what they got and they get burned nostrils for their efforts
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moz and jeans (Score:0)
youtube clip (Score:0)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5yHwm8l6c
This man is sick after all... (Score:1)
His vocal delivery is very thin...where normally he would use his full voice during the track, he uses his "head voice". This has NOTHING to do with the sound or audio being a problem. When a singer, especially a high baritone/tenor like Morrissey, is sick, they have no support to "belt" or, really, just naturally use their full voice to go up the scale. When that support isn't there, due to illness, a singer has to throw everything past certain notes on the scale into his/her head voice. This makes the vocal thin.
Can you imagine how frustrating this must have been for Morrissey? He has to push back the tour, anyway. But then to finally get on stage to adoring fans and not be more than about 60%? The frustration is plain to see on that YouTube video.
All this begs a serious question: Why didn't he just "chill" in Atlanta for a couple of days and start the tour there? Now, the next week of shows is possibly called into question.
Hopefully, by ending the show early, he put himself in a position to maximize rest and recovery. It's on its way to 75 and sunny here in Atlanta, maybe the weather can help his voice and recovery efforts a bit. If he was on the back-half of his illness, then there's a chance he can work through this...
Oh...and congratulations to all the idiots who had the "all-knowing" power last week to make the solid claim that Morrissey canceled Florida because he was simply a "Mother Fucking Asshole". Your presumption was proven wrong. Big surprise. Coldplay awaits you...
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Re:This man is sick after all... (Score:2, Interesting)
I am actually one of the people who got jammed when moz cancelled the first four shows,for whatever reason you want to believe.I had the week off anyways,so we made a little trip to orlando to visit friends and family.I got talked into seeing the Blue man group,which as you may know,is right next to hard rock.We went to the hard rock after for a few drinks where we spoke to the booking manager there.We asked if he "really" knew the scoop on why mozzer cancelled.He laughed,shook his head and proceeded to tell us what a pain in the ass he and his reps are.Basically,he didn't get the numbers he wanted in the ticket sales and was not flexible about the restaurant serving meat that night.Less than half the tickets were sold and he just bailed out.The main reason i write this Sir dew drop is...
all last week you were ranting at us folks who got screwed about how he
which way do you want it...
1. the shows weren't full,so why play and lose
money...
2. or look,he really was sick,see?
Please relax,you probably are an alright guy,but you get so angry making statements that you cannot back up
Not everyone who comes here gets nasty and rude,some folks have something good to say...but please take one side or the other,acting like you are "in the know" when you aint,and then try to belittle people makes you look,well....
stupid.Cheer up though,i just got tickets for dallas,chicago and the twin cities.Later dew drop.
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Great set, no encore (Score:4, Informative)
Setlist:
1/ skull
2/ mama
3/ charman [this charming man]
4/ black cloud
5/ best payroll
6/ first gang
7/ paris
8/ how can anybody
9/ seasick, yet
10/ ask
11/ poet
12/ that's how «skipped»
13/ all you n is m
14/ hidden [I keep mine...]
15/ bores
16/ pigsty
17/ hsin? «yes»
18/ i'm OK by «skipped»
Enc: irish «skipped»
The show was a very good warmup for the rest of the tour. Red Cortez (from East LA/Silverlake. Cheers to Lawrence) opened with a very strong set. The songs I liked more sounded either like British Sea Power or another really unique style of their own (as opposed to U2).
Intermission videos are a blend of new and former. Of the new, 3 videos from a girl-fronted band from the 1970s (?) Shocking Blue (including a funky "Venus"), Shelagh Delaney intvw about not being able to leave England/Salford, and Jobriath montage tribute.
Moz and boys walked on in prison-light-blue shirts and jeans. Enjoyed M sharing his butt-side often to house left throughout the show (how can we not think about what's under those jeans now?). YoR songs great to hear again as they are more fleshed out now. Boz and new keyboardist (Roger Manning, Jr?) played drums downstage from opposing sides at the end of Mama (nice touch). Paris was beautiful, as was Seasick (heart-grabbing). Sister I'm a Poet imho needs to be sped up to a prancing pace. Bores and Pigsty back-to-back felt a bit duplicative in emotion to me. Jesse's monitor seemed to be having problems at Pigsty. At the end-part of HSIN, Moz left the stage. Then it seemed it was time to cheer for an encore when "That's Life, That's Right" came on. Arturo and another backstage person were seemingly signaling to the soundman in the back to turn the music off, but that never happened. After the song, stage lights (not house lights) came on and we all left when it was obvious the drum set was being disassembled.
Overall it was a great show, a great crowd. Moz shook many hands. Hopefully they'll play a couple more songs in Atlanta. But overall, not counting no encore, it felt like a full set was played.
Cheers to the sweet girl who gave me her Tide bleach stick for the grits I spilled all over my jacket!
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Worst Set List Ever! (Score:0)
Pre-YOR the only things I see here that are exciting are Charming Man, Payroll, Seasick, and Ask.
I know Morrissey can play what he wants and all, but this is not good. Compare with his shows from '06-'06
So much for (Score:0)
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Good Luck Morrisey! (Score:0)
More info for the truly obsessed (Score:0)
Lyric changes;
"English is a language can't your read?,
English is a language can anybody read?"
"...of a shyness that is cripalling and vulgar"
I tried to push Chelsea on stage but she didn't quite make it. She lost her shoes during the fight but said it was worth it.
Atlanta Cancelled (Score:2, Informative)
This news should come as little surprise to those who were in attendance to last night's gig, but Morrissey's voice is gone and he would not be able to perform tonight under any condition.
I know some people will be traveling to Atlanta, so I thought it be only fair to mention the fact that the show has been canceled. This decision was reached some time last night, and I personally find it offensive that this news wasn't put out to the fans immediately, as they are the ones most affected.
Moz's PR firm "Girlie Action" is a known joke, and will no doubt spin their usual line of hastily written b.s. at the last possible minute, but take it from me —this tour is in serious trouble.
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Myrtle Beach: dribs and drabs (Score:2, Interesting)
(4)Red Aztec was fantastic! Kind of stole-the-show. Or, at least would have had it been neraly any other band headlining after them
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Re:Myrtle Beach: dribs and drabs (Score:2, Informative)
I guess I don't have much to add to what has already been said. Moz sounded great when he first hit the stage and looked incredible. I could tell pretty early on that there could be trouble and turned to Sharonanigans and said, "Uh oh." He made it longer than I thought he would, so I can't say that I'm disappointed. You could tell that he was really trying to carry on with the show. He really started to lose it after "Seasick." He left the stage a few times and frequently looked frustrated that he was having problems singing. Boz looked really serious all night. I mean serious. Moz left the stage for a while after "Crashing Bores, " which the band continued to play until the end. Boz went offstage for a bit, too, afterward and then brought out the glasses out for "Pigsty," so I knew they weren't quite finished yet. Moz started singing, "It's the same old S.O.S. .
The new shirts are nice. Most of the new shirts feature the new lettering from the album cover. There is a green shirt that reads "Irish Blood, English Heart." I got the black shirt that reads "Morrissey Tackle Me." There was a black shirt with the album artwork on it, a white shirt with a red and blue stripe horizontally across the breast with a shield over the heart that says "MORRISSEY." There was a gray Southpaw Grammar shirt and another black shirt with the same portrait as the Southpaw shirt that takes up the entire front of the shirt. That's all that I can remember off the top of my sleepy head. There were also keychains, stickers and the CD.
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Relax (Score:1)
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that setlist is bloody awful! the worst since the (Score:0)
he's chosen the very worst songs from his last three albums. how can anybody...?
you're having a giraffe mate.
what an absolute effing berk!
Not So Sure (Score:1)
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Atrocious Set List (Score:0)
Bring back November Spawned A Monster! Bring back Sing Your Life! Bring back Pregnant For the Last Time, for crying out loud!
Quotes (Score:2, Informative)
reports of my death are obviously untrue...sadly
never said sister during poet...just
"brother" and missed the line "plastic bag stranded at the light"...
before payroll said- "we all have filthy pasts"
asked "do you like your new president?...good!"
also...jesse tobias crunched and screeched his guitar through charming man and most of the other songs. Moz made an obnoxious face and put his hands up to mock "push" him away when walking back on stage...weird...
Boz did not smile...bad sign...Solomon was the most energetic...I am still creeped out by the keyboard guy...like 7 feet tall and bearded...
No machine gun guitar...no irish blood...which was just fine with me.
the t shirt guy looked like a fat crazed hairier john malkovich and could hardly converse...
it was announced that the bar would stay open an hour beyond the show and 50% off alcohol was the feature for that hour...bizarre and pathetic
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Meat Is Murder Beach (Score:2, Interesting)
Fuck the Murder Beach House of Blues with a rusty, tetanus-spiked metal unlubed Jeff Stryker dildo. The feverent and faithful who attended the previous Murder Beach gig knew of the evil money-grubbing policies of the HOB. They have various programs to force a “guest” to fork over extra money on top of the ticket prices so that early queueing will not have been in vain. I understand the loathesome ways of Mammon and accepted it, but what the House of Blues did yesterday was a systematic operation of deception and willful mismanagement to punish the staunchest fans who refuse to support the slaughter of animals. We even spent more money than the carnivores for the privilege of being fucked over by being let in after the murder buffet crowd.
Thanks to our desperately speedy limbs I think the people who queued since the wee hours of the morning did get to the barrier interspersed with bloated meat-eaters who had been leisurely milling about the barricade for a while. All except one who had queued even before me. She was a lovely human being, and her one desire since '91 was just to touch Morrissey's hand once. So I let her have my spot at the barrier halfway through the show as I had promised. I could not do anything about the HOB carnivore bullshit, but I could do something to see the girl happy. “ASK” was a doubly blessed event because she got her dream handshake, and I finally got to see him sing that song live. At MAMA, I got a handshake during “It's just so lonely without you...” That was sweet.
During ASK my gut ached with laughter as he mimed a Lizzy Borden arm swinging motion while punning “Axe me, axe me, axe me!” There will be blood...and Moz totally brought it during that song.
I was also very happy that everyone around us was very kind and sociable! Thank you all! I had the pleasure of enjoying a night of Morrissey with you and would be glad to repeat the joy in the future.
As I wrote earlier, the night started promisingly but then steadily sank into a flawed, somewhat dispirited show that ended in confusion and disbelief. From the get-go, Moz was flubbing lyrics and botching notes left and right. But it was okay. He was here with us, and it was even charming. What was really funny was how he fluffed the “Same old SOS” line during PIGSTY and seemed to not know where to jump back in, so for several verses just kept good-naturedly repeating “SOS” a little sheepishly. We noticed that he did not have the usual number of monitors and perhaps strained his voice because he could not hear himself. He did make a reference to it to the sound engineer. Why are these issues still plaguing his tours? You'd think they would've sorted that by now.
Moz did not strip topless nor throw out any shirts to the audience, and he just seemed to become more and more out of it as the night went on. It was very comparable to the show in Clermont-Ferrand 2008, especially with the dropped songs, low energy, and too-short show. He did not seem very chatty towards the end of the night. He was not very playful, but he did stand in front of my area a lot during the show. For these mercies we are grateful. Maybe I KEEP MINE HIDDEN was crappy. The sound quality is not very good when up front, but I had a right fun jaunt when they played it. It's my fave thing to listen to from the BBC recording.
I was a bit jaded with Pigsty-segue-HSIN. Pooley played the burfday ditty while Moz wished us a birthday. Did he say HAPPY birthday? I dunno. So it seemed par for the course. I wasn't think
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First Concert (Score:0)
I thought Red Cortez was really good and a pleasant surprise. The songs were good and they just kept banging out song after song. I just ordered their EP and hope they get signed soon.
I though Morrissey was good at first but it went downhill fast. If he was sick, at least say you are sick and you'll try to get through it. The Smiths songs he did sounded just awful except for HSIN.Pigsty is an awful song anyway though I enjoyed the new stuff. His band looked totally uninterested and aren't that great except for the drummer. Anyway, I'm glad I got turned on to new band and it was too bad he was sick.
i'd like to know (Score:0)
I Sat Down and Wept (Score:1)
Stuck here in snowy Edinburgh I, clearly, wasn't in attendance at the show so I cannot comment on the quality of it or of how poorly La Mozfather was but I feel I can share my feelings on that set-list.
I am genuinely worried by it.
I have no interest in hearing some of those songs live AGAIN..."...Crashing Bores" is exactly that, a crashing bore, "How can Anybody Know how I Feel" holds little interest for me and, equally, "I Keep Mine Hidden" is a song that doesn't do "it" for me.
I would also be tempted to jettison "Life is a Pigsty" a song which I adore but which I, and many of you, have heard a lot...why not replace it with "It's not Your Birthday Anymore"?
I would like to see a set-list more like this (based on previous tours and current work)
Something is Squeezing my Skull
Mama, Lay Softly on the Riverbed
All You Need is Me
Still Ill
Black Cloud
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
First of the Gang to Die
I'm Throwing my arms Around Paris
When Last I Spoke to Carol
Billy Budd
You Were Good in Your Time
Sister I'm a Poet
How Soon Is Now?
Best Friend on the Payroll
Suedehead
This Charming Man
Encore
I'm OK by Myself
Irish Blood, English Heart
But, what do I know
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Merchandise?? (Score:1)
Mel?? Please tell us!
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If you are a true fan...you forgive this show! (Score:1, Insightful)
Well (Score:0)
I keep Mine hidden too (Score:1)
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Truly disappointing (Score:1)
He was polite at the beginning of the show, thanking fans for the support of the album, but seemed to become more disinterested as the set list continued. I keep my hidden and Life is a Pigsty were painful to hear and not good choices live, but being able to hear Seasick, yet still docked for the first time live made the entire experience worthwhile.
I don't regret the trip or expense, but wish he had waited until he was 100% before attempting a performance in front of people who had obviously been waiting for this moment for quite some time. After speaking with other folks at the show, I learned this was the first Morrissey show for many in attendance. I couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
I do hope he recovers soon and brings back the Morrissey we all love and adore.
Mozziestar
P.S. I was wearing the black "And if a double decker bus crashes into us..." t-shirt that so many of you asked me about.
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Sound issues? (Score:1)
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Re:3.6.9 setlist (Score:0)
This set list HAS to be fake
Parent
Re:Setlist..For Real (Score:1)
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Re:Setlist..For Real (Score:2, Informative)
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