2008-06-28 - Comcast Center; Mansfield, MAPre-Set: Throw Your Arms Around Me
I: Hard To Imagine, Why Go, Hail Hail, Comatose, Low Light, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Corduroy, Faithfull, Off He Goes, Given To Fly, Down, I\'m Open, I Got Id, Even Flow, Do The Evolution, Once, Rearviewmirror
E1: Love Reign O\'er Me, Come Back, Insignificance, Black, Better Man(Save it for Later)
E2: No More, State Of Love And Trust, Alive
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i agree with your rating, pete. i\'d say B.
i couldn\'t have been happier to see TYAAM. honestly, there\'s no other song i\'d rather hear Ed do solo, so i was pretty damn giddy when he came out and played it, and i was rewarded for being in my seat nice and early. i REALLY wanted to hear it at the EV Berkeley show, and i didn\'t, so i was very excited about this:
HTI opener was obvious. (totally going with a Wash opener call for Monday now). LOVE Why Go in the 2-slot. my first Hail, Hail of the tour - awesome. also loved the Comatose placement. love Low Light, but wasn\'t in love with the placement. too soon. couple standards after that, but i always love Faithfull. nice to hear my first Off He Goes of the tour. i\'m sick of Given To Fly. love Down. agree with pete - I\'m Open serves no purpose, and i hate the fact that it even counts as a "song" in the song count. I GOT ID - now we\'re talking! been waiting for this. EF/DTE back to back was a little rough, but loved Once and RVM to close out the set.
i thought Love Reign O\'er Me was going to be something different, cause before it, ed said "we\'re gonna try this one because we have tomorrow off". still love hearing them play it though. i love Come Back, and it was my first of the tour, however, it\'s kinda tough live, and i don\'t really think it belonged where it was. Insignificance was great. i\'m liking Black more now that i\'m hearing it less.
i may have to call this the best Better Man i\'ve ever heard. like pete said, the pause was absolutely insane. lots of cheers, per usual, but the crowd just kept getting louder and louder, and the cheers turned into banging on the seats. ed just sat and watched and was clearly loving it. and to top it off, i got probably the longest Save It For Later tag i\'ve ever heard (full verse and chorus + "don\'t let me down"). oddly enough, probably the highlight of the show for me!
No More is a good song, but enough is enough. always love SOLAT, obviously. could NOT believe they were done after Alive. really? eek. that sort of brought the grade down a bit as well. only 25 songs on the night - the least amount of songs i\'ve seen at a PJ show since, ironically, Hartford \'06.
the soundcheck tells me that great things are going to happen tomorrow. hope i\'m right.
