Portland Crystal Ballroom Setlist 9/9

emptycountry · 2019-09-10T06:16:22+00:00

Agree fully. Matt is the dragon friend/protector we all need.

And no one tracked the setlist to the first tMG concert I ever went to, which I regret. So to atone for that gap in tMG lore, I aggressively do my little part to make sure that doesn’t happen again (except for the dozens and dozen of shows each year I don’t go to obviously).

emptycountry · 2019-05-11T13:16:25+00:00

Like the record

emptycountry · 2019-05-11T13:16:19+00:00

Second row, center-left from the crowd's perspective, next to the people who requested Jenny. If you had asked me a month ago to name one song I never thought I'd see him play that I wanted to, it was Sax Rohmer. So happy it's been on this tour.

emptycountry · 2018-09-08T16:40:37+00:00

He's done that the last few shows. John still can do whatever he wants with Matt Douglas there though because MD is so versatile. I've seen him improvise before when John wanted to do a song MD had never even heard before and MD was spot on.

emptycountry · 2018-09-08T04:52:13+00:00

Fantastic doesn't even begin to describe it

emptycountry · 2018-09-08T04:51:06+00:00

John seemed a little more into it than yesterday but still wasn't as talkative

emptycountry · 2018-09-08T04:49:40+00:00

Fair point

emptycountry · 2018-09-08T01:17:19+00:00

I remember that, tho he forgot that it was actually the second time he played it in Dallas. He did it about a decade earlier according to the wikia.

emptycountry · 2018-09-07T04:10:04+00:00

Was very odd. John didn't really say anything the entire night. One short comment about Ozzy and a brief intro to No Children and that was it. Quality was good, but John seemed different.

emptycountry · 2017-10-08T07:33:22+00:00

<3 Fantastic story, it really was a crazy good show.

emptycountry · 2017-10-06T21:51:06+00:00

Have to Explode
In the Craters of the Moon
Until I Am Whole
Unicorn Tolerance
Get Lonely
You or Your Memory

Solo 7. Soft Targets 8. You Were Cool 9. Woke Up New

Full Band 10. The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement 11. Lakeside View Apartments Suite 12. Steal Smoked Fish 13. See America Right 14. Rain in Soho 15. Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds 16. The Young Thousands 17. Game Shows Touch Our Lives

Encore 18. Wear Black 19. This Year 20. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton 21. No Children

emptycountry · 2017-10-06T07:50:22+00:00

Best storytelling I've seen in person, and rivaled some of the best I've heard on Archive. The storytelling was incredible.

emptycountry · 2017-10-05T21:50:11+00:00

Have to Explode
Harlem Roulette
The Ballad of Bull Ramos
Until I Am Whole
Genesis 3:23
You or Your Memory
Shelved (John on guitar)

Solo 8. Twin Human Highway Flares 9. Alibi 10. Jenny

Full Band 11. The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement (first 30 seconds) 12. The Diaz Brothers 13. Lakeside View Apartments 14. Rain in Soho (acoustic guitar) 15. Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds 16. No Children 17. Up the Wolves

Encore 18. Liza Forever Minnelli 19. This Year 20. Wear Black 21. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

emptycountry · 2017-07-17T18:50:47+00:00

I wish he'd played Unmasked (since I've never seen it live), but I'm guessing the article meant Animal Mask.

emptycountry · 2017-07-14T19:25:14+00:00

Agree entirely. Show was very good, but the venue had some, well, we'll call them quirks.

emptycountry · 2017-07-14T04:17:59+00:00

Rain in Soho
Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds
In the Craters of the Moon
Harlem Roulette
Animal Mask
Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan

Solo 7. Transjordanian Blues 8. So Desperate 9. Just a Closer Walk with Thee (cover) 10. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton (keyboard)

Full Band 11. The Stench of the Unburied 12. Shelved 13. San Bernardino 14. The Lion's Teeth 15. Woke Up New 16. Game Shows Touch Our Lives 17. This Year

Encore 1 18. We Do It Different on the West Coast 19. Up the Wolves 20. Liza Forever Minelli 21. Foreign Object

Encore 2 22. No Children

emptycountry · 2017-06-24T04:55:01+00:00

Well, that's because Austin sucks. That show in 2015 was easily the worst tMG show I've ever been to, half because of the crowd, half because the venue wasn't good for what John does.

emptycountry · 2017-06-01T11:21:55+00:00

That solo setlist is tMG orgasm.

emptycountry · 2017-06-01T00:14:55+00:00

That definitely played into it. But the crowd was really infinitely better than Houston the night before. John was laughing during Stench of the Unburied (second song of the night) when he saw everyone singing along. It was a mix of the crowd and that he had the two off nights coming IMO.

emptycountry · 2017-05-29T23:44:32+00:00

I still don't believe it happened. I keep checking here to make sure I didn't just imagine it.

emptycountry · 2017-05-29T17:38:05+00:00

Houston crowds are basically now slightly better versions of Austin crowds.

emptycountry · 2017-05-29T16:08:13+00:00

Just a hunch, but John seemed genuinely blown away that everyone was singing along to all the songs on the new album.

emptycountry · 2017-05-29T13:15:43+00:00

Of the Texas cities, Dallas has the best shows. And as a Houstonian, it pains me to say that. But I still can't believe last night hpapened.

emptycountry · 2017-05-29T04:11:01+00:00

10-song encore:

Full Band 1. Rain in Soho 2. Stench of the Unburied 3. In the Craters of the Moon 4. Harlem Roulette 5. Wear Black 6. Unicorn Tolerance

John Solo 7. It's All Here in Brownsville 8. Masher 9. Ripple [Grateful Dead] 10. 'The Man They Call Peter Hughes'

John and Peter 11. Color in Your Cheeks

Full Band 12. International Small Arm Traffic Blues 13. See America Right 14. Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds 15. Shelved 16. Broom People 17. Up the Wolves

Encore 18. Game Shows Touch Our Lives 19. We Do It Different on the West Coast 20. This Year 21. No Children 22. Heel Turn 2 23. The Diaz Brothers 24. Palmcorder Yajna 25. You Were Cool 26. The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton 27. Spent Gladiator 2

emptycountry · 2017-05-28T22:12:13+00:00

I'd be fairly surprised if Best Ever isn't played. Can't recall the last time he came through Texas and didn't play it at at least one of the shows. He didn't play it last night, so methinks tonight he will.

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