10:36pm:

1. The Other Other Fool
2. Heartbreaker        
3. High Time           
4. Big Surprise        
5. The Whitch          
6. Step Inside (fantastic! totally reworked)
7. Young Man Blues
8. Superstooge (complete, long version)
9. The Wheel (very long, with some additional lyrics)
10. Psychonaut
11. Fade To Grey
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12. You Lied    
13. Black to Comm/Not Fade Away/Black to Comm
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14. Vortex Surfer
                 
                 
Compared to Oslo April 10th this gig had a lot more punch, still they
were very loose/relaxed. They played for two hours. 

Nice opening song. I took an instant liking to it when hearing the new
live album. Performed very well tonight.
The songs 2-5 were all very good. They seem to have developed since
Rockefeller last saturday.
Step Inside was a big surprise. Bent on guitar and Snah on bass. Didn't
recognise it at all at first, but the lyrics revealed a totally reworked
Step Inside, faster than before and powerful as h...
Then come YMB, the big let down that night. Short, straight foreward
version, with only short solos. Time to let it rest?                
So: Prepare to be amazed. We got the full version of both Superstooge and
The Wheel, including an awesome part inbetween with quiet, smooth sounds 
from Snah on keys. The highlight of the evening.
Psychonaut was great to hear, I missed this one in Oslo.
Fade To Grey didn't do it for me in Drammen neither did it in Oslo. A bit
of anarchy in the end there lifted it a bit, though.

You Lied, pretty standard
Black to Comm, so punchy (is that an english word?), so totally rocking,
so freaked out, even Not Fade Away worked really well in there before BtC
exploded one last time. Phew! 

Vortex, beautiful as always, the audience even managed to shut up and
listen at last.
               
Thank you MP!  
               
----ANders    

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Hallo!
      
in response to yesterday's gig in Drammen and the "oh, another mp gig" reports
on the mailing list i just wanted to air a few remarks...

First, the gig in Drammen were surprisingly fresh in tone with a rather different setlist
than the previous Rockefeller gig (for a total setlist, see elsewhere. i was a bit out   
of it during the gig. :)). The band seemed to relax (perhaps due to the rather small     
confines of the Union Scene (300+) and i personally thought they were improvising        
more than i've seen they've done lately. Personal faves last night? Well, as             
always it's hard to separate these gems frome one another, but:                          

        the wheel: a terrifying ordeal with maximum "golden core" factor. One of
        the definitive best ver. i've heard of the song.
        
        vortex surfer: aahhh....
        
        black comm: total rock'n'roll!! this really kicked ass!
        
It was a bit weird seeing the guys in a all new context and it seemed that they
enjoyed the gig themselves, playing the obligatory two hours.

about the "just another gig" thing we've seen lately on the list, i were glad to see
Rannveig's report today that she enjoyed the gig at rockefeller. i thought it was ace
too, with smiles going all around the hall. But, i've never been the most harsh critic
when it comes to MP.     : )

as Bent said: they're tiring of playing the old songs and prefer the new ones.
Perhaps we should be glad to hear the occasional golden oldie (as with California
Dreamin' on saturday at rockefeller) and be glad that they haven't done as rollins
band who don't ever play the old ones?

dunno...i'm just a moron. what do i know?

Mats
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