🦋 Audience Participation
So Ray Davies has (as Holly has been demonstrating all month) a huge catalog -- he made wonderful use of it tonight when Ellen and I saw him playing at the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, playing his greatest hits ("Lola", "You Really Got Me"), my personal favorites ("Come Dancing", "Waterloo Sunset"), songs I knew vaguely ("Low Budget", "Where Have All the Good Times Gone"), songs I had heard of ("Demon Alcohol"), and songs I had never heard of ("Cowboys in Vietnam"); and even one song he claimed himself to have forgotten having written -- "Moments", which he said he was playing because a Finnish journalist who was interviewing him requested it, and he had to look it up on YouTube to figure out what song the journalist was talking about. A great, great show, and what I think will stick with me about it is the degree of participation from the audience -- from me and the people sitting around me and everyone in the theater. On every song, however well I knew or did not know it, I was bopping my head, stomping my feet, snapping my fingers, clapping my hands, bellowing out responses to Davies' calls. He played for two hours and my attention -- and the attention, it seemed to me, of the audience as a whole -- never flagged. I hope somebody posts a set list online, I'd like to remember all the songs he played.
posted evening of Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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Dieheard Kinks fan here, saw him at Town Hall on Friday the 20th with his Chorus. Outstanding show which in my opinion is typical Ray.
Anyway, the set list can be found on the Unoffical Kinks web site of Dave Emlen at KindaKinks.net, click on the link left side Resources --- Set List.
Happy Holidays.
Rock and Roll will live on forever - On an On
posted afternoon of November 27th, 2009 by John Frandsen
Thanks, John!
posted evening of November 27th, 2009 by Jeremy
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