St. Louis - The Pageant - THREAD

[scuba.steve]

SETLIST:

Set 1:
---------
Peaceful Valley->
Beautiful Sorta
Rescue Blues
Goodnite Rose
(Happy B-day to Spacewolf 4th Night In A Row)
Cold Roses
Dear John
Bartering Lines
Games
Two
Everybody Knows

(break at 9:40)
(back on 9:55)

Set 2:
---------
What Sin
Peaceful Valley Reprise->
Please Do Not Let Me Go
Off Broadway
Wildflowers
I See Monsters

End 10:36 (No Encore)


courtesy of Funky Avocado




October 5th, 2007 - St. Louis, Missouri - VENUE: THE PAGEANT

I'm SO excited to see Ryan & the gang tonight in St. Louis!!!

I hope everyone has a good time that makes it too.


****SOLD OUT*****

[scuba.steve]

It says NO CAMERAS ALLOWED. Do the people really search for your camera before you walk in? Cause my camera phone sucks, I have a really nice digital camera I can just turn the flash off on. is that what everyone else has been doing?

[burgerqueen]

If you are going with a girl, just have her put it in her bra. Works for me every time.

[ewok.online]

If you are going with a girl, just have her put it in her bra. Works for me every time.

nobody questions the lopsided chest? :P

[Sydneyfan]

I may not be around to update the setlist for this show, so if anyone wants to post it here, that would be great.

[burgerqueen]

nobody questions the lopsided chest? :P

I put it inbetween them.
Plus, then I'm always sure to throw a tampon into my purse (99% of the time it's a guy that looks through bags) and they always quickly pass you through without looking at anything or doing anything.

[hildegoat]

I put it inbetween them.
Plus, then I'm always sure to throw a tampon into my purse (99% of the time it's a guy that looks through bags) and they always quickly pass you through without looking at anything or doing anything.

:lol

[Starlite]

I put it inbetween them.
Plus, then I'm always sure to throw a tampon into my purse (99% of the time it's a guy that looks through bags) and they always quickly pass you through without looking at anything or doing anything.

That's great! :lol
I'll have to try that trick, but I'll chuck in a handful of tampons instead of just one ;)

[raer7385]

That's great! :lol
I'll have to try that trick, but I'll chuck in a handful of tampons instead of just one ;)

men should do it too. that will freak them out.

[Starlite]

men should do it too. that will freak them out.

:lol Yeah, but men don't usually carry purses/handbags...or am I missing something?

[burgerqueen]

That's great! :lol
I'll have to try that trick, but I'll chuck in a handful of tampons instead of just one ;)

You should try it, it's amazing how easily it works and every time too. I can just see a guy opening it & finding a whole box of tampons. :lol

[Starlite]

You should try it, it's amazing how easily it works and every time too. I can just see a guy opening it & finding a whole box of tampons. :lol

No, they shouldn't be in the box, they should be loose and scattered :P

[raer7385]

:lol Yeah, but men don't usually carry purses/handbags...or am I missing something?

:lol good point :lol

[raer7385]

from RAA's funkyavocado


Set 1:
---------
Peaceful Valley->
Beautiful Sorta
Rescue Blues
Goodnite Rose
(Happy B-day to Spacewolf 4th Night In A Row)
Cold Roses
Dear John
Bartering Lines
Games
Two
Everybody Knows

(break at 9:40)
(back on 9:55)

Set 2:
---------
What Sin
Peaceful Valley Reprise->
Please Do Not Let Me Go
Off Broadway
Wildflowers
I See Monsters

End 10:36 (No Encore)

[ArkhamAsylum]

I See Monsters on the end and off at 10:36.


Seems odd that after all of these RA shows in a row that the next one is a week from Saturday.

[Starlite]

Seems odd that after all of these RA shows in a row that the next one is a week from Saturday.

They do need to rest sometimes.

[Sydneyfan]

less than glowing review from jakeb

It was and interesting but disappointing show. Saw them in Chicago last weekend and they were on.

Tonight, quit frankly, Ryan seemed higher than a kite. Before the "break" he was babbling and making strange noises (I've seen him before but not like this) and then to the clear surprise of the band, announced that they would be back and I thought he said "5 months" but he probably said 5 minutes. Back in 15 or 20 minutes to reprise peaceful valley.

Long breaks between songs. It was like they were basically just jamming. Now you can say that's cool, but it did not seem planned and started to seem strange.

I will say that they sounded good musically, but I think we will be reading about this show in the press.

And finally, what's up with the no encore? Everyone around me seemed surprised, but no booing or anything like that.

[Starlite]

The lack of an encore's nothing new :(

[Sydneyfan]

The lack of an encore's nothing new :(

Very true. The Peaceful Valley reprise seems odd, but I suppose we will need to wait for reports from people who were at the show.

[scuba.steve]

"I see monsters" was a great end. Started out quiet and mellow by the end it was rawk. Ryan was doing the guitar riff on the far side of the stage almost behind the amps, guitar up in the air rocking it out. It was a great show. Total class.

[Rob]

:lol nice story, thanks for sharing

[ArkhamAsylum]

They do need to rest sometimes.
Of course, got to keep the Cardinals fresh.

[scuba.steve]

I completely forgot though! I was at the shell station across the street in that first picture after the ryan incident. and Jon and Brad walked in! I saw them through the window. they were buying smokes probably cause they stood in line behind me and wanted nothing else in the store. I turned around and said there names and said hello. they seemed pretty darn tired, maybe stunned that I knew them and knew their names. Brad was yawning a lot and I asked if they were tired (cause i'm an idiot like that) and he goes, "yeah a little." smiled. so i asked him how the show was last night in Champaign, IL and he said it was good. i said thanks for coming to them and they said, Yeah thanks, see you at the show.

[scuba.steve]

Rescue Blues sounded amazing...and I See Monsters rocked!

the night was almost ruined when some idiot chick yelled out, "Your awesome sober, Ryan".

that kinda shit is like stepping on egg shells anyways. don't point out the personal life on someone quitting a habbit like that, even if you think it might be a compliment. plus people after the break in the balcony were getting louder and louder and louder as they drank more. seriously. pay the fuck attention. when the show started it was so great, it was so quiet i could hear the toilets flushing in the venue. and they appreciate that from a crowd. they dont want the rowdy, song requesting, drunk yelling crowds anymore. have a good time, but pay attention and dont scream in the person's ear standing right next you while hes playing.

Great gig.

[Sydneyfan]

Another mixed review from Steve DC:

I'm a relatively new fan of Ryan Adams. Someone lent me Heartbreaker and it blew me away so I've been devouring a lot of his stuff for the past couple years. As for me, my favorite artist of all time is Tom Waits, and I just don't get Wilco.

I was hoping he wouldn't do some crazy stuff like storm off the stage or something, and he seemed relatively sober... at the beginning. As the show went on he got weirder and weirder. At one point he was flapping his arms like wings and chirping into the microphone for an uncomfortably long amount of time. Overall I loved it though. The band was tight as hell, and The Pageant is the best venue in town soundwise. The sound in the bathroom was better than the best seat in most other small clubs I've been to.

Pros:

The band was very tight and Ryan seemed to be in good spirits, and played every song masterfully
Acoustics were perfect
He did different arrangements on classics that were just amazing. In particular, Bartering Lines. It sounded like a totally different song, and was just great
Opening with a mind blowing Peaceful Valley
No drunken hollering during the silences

Cons:

Only one song from Heartbreaker
A Happy Birthday act that seemed to go on a little too long
No Encore, the lights went on the second he left the stage, and people seemed surprised
No "let it ride"
Could have done without the 10 minute extended Jam of Goodnight Rose
Not sure this whole sobriety thing is for real

[scuba.steve]

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[Sydneyfan]

Blog review of the show:

So it’s Friday night and I’m at the Pageant watching Ryan Adams alternately strut and stumble around in his high-heeled cowboy boots, and the flickers from the disco ball on the ceiling are making pretty patterns on the wall and the effect is very hypnotic and my mind starts drifting to the essential big questions -- like, who the hell is Ryan Adams?

Yes, I know, he is not the guy who sang “Summer of ‘69,” although I heard he threw a tantrum at a show once when a fan shouted out a request for it. (I thought it would have been way cooler if he’d come up with his own ironic version.) He was the guy who was in Whiskeytown back in the '90s, then he went solo and recorded that “New York, New York” song that got adopted as the post- 9/11 anthem. And then he went on a recording bender and started putting out three albums a year, -- and then there were those stories about coke abuse (which would explain the recording bender). Now he’s gone through rehab and made a new album called Easy Tiger (which he has to promote), which is why we – Ryan Adams and I and a sold-out crowd – are at the Pageant tonight.

No, what puzzles me about Ryan Adams is the stumbling/strutting thing. His stage patter sounds like he doesn’t give a shit – he begins by announcing in a hipster monotone, “We are in St. Louis. You are listening to this show in St. Louis,” and later makes some lame omelette/Hamlet joke. It would seem logical for him to comment on the similarity between the name of his band, The Cardinals, and that of our baseball team, but maybe that would come off as trying too hard to make us think he cares. (Or maybe, as my companion suggested, the bizarre hooting noises he made into the microphone were the call of the cardinal and he was trying to connect with us on some deeper, more primal level.)

But then, while Ryan Adams is saying all this nonsense, he’s bending down to fiddle with his amp, and communicating to the band through elaborate arm gestures how they should tune their amps. Behind that artfully-arranged mop of hair that covers half his face, Ryan Adams is intense. Ryan Adams is in control.

Ryan Adams records alt-country. Most of the songs on his albums hover around the four- or five-minute range. His repertoire is a mix of hard-rockers and ballads, which he sings in a falsetto that makes him sound like he is crying. But when Ryan Adams and the Cardinals perform, they sound less like Wilco and more like the Grateful Dead. Does Ryan Adams not-so-secretly wish he could go on the jam-band circuit?

Or is Ryan Adams just sick of playing the same songs over and over? Halfway through the show, he announces that he is going to play “Two” and “Everybody Knows,” the two hits from Easy Tiger that we presumably paid so much money to hear live. And he does. And they sound just like they do on the recording. And then Ryan Adams heaves a sigh of relief and he and the band go back to jamming.

When Ryan Adams and the Cardinals are jamming well, they are jamming well. They play elaborate renditions of “Beautiful-Sorta” and “Rescue Blues” that sound way better than they do on CD. But when, as happens with jam bands, the noodling goes too far, the crowd gets restless and even the devout fans, who expected the jamming, start chatting amongst themselves.

Rumor had it that Ryan Adams was going to play one electric set and one acoustic set. He does not. He and the band remain plugged the entire time. At the end, he tells us we’ve been a wonderful audience, the best he’s ever seen, and then he slips off his guitar and heads backstage. Half the crowd stands and applauds, the post-show ritual of begging for an encore. But Ryan Adams does not return. Instead the house lights go up and “Rock the Casbah” comes over the loudspeaker.

On the way out the door, the armchair psychoanalysis continues. Is Ryan Adams just sick of touring? St. Louis is one of his last stops in the U.S. Does he just want to go back home to New York and write three more albums’ worth of new songs instead of making lame stage patter about sports teams in order to sell more copies of the songs that have been up on iTunes for a couple of months already?

Ryan Adams tells the audience what agony it is to have to pimp a couple of hit songs. He says it in his ironic monotone and bends his head and pretends to sob. To paraphrase one of his older hits, I believe in the irony sorta – but not.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2007/10/ryan_adams_at_the_pageant_octo.php

[thefed]

awesome. best article yet in the e.t. barage

[Layne]

I wish I was there...I went there to see if I could bum some tickets

but nice review

[scuba.steve]

Found these on youtube from the show:

I See Monsters (ROCKS) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxjCxBb88kA

Two ("For all the people that came to see only this song", ha ha) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjwNrh9NgWU

Dear John -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmtZhdEi_Yc