OH MAN was this a great show! :thumbs: :thumbs:
I went with my friend Nelson, who I've know since we were six years old. We got there in time to see the third warm up band
Bid D and the Kids Table who were pretty darn good!! I talked to their lead singer Sean and their guitar player after the show and bought one of their CDs. They have a guy who plays tenor sax and another guy who plays the trumpet. Not bad for a punk band! :laugh: :thumbs:
We had a good view from some risers at the back of the club. This was a small club that probably only holds 500 people so even though we were in the back we were only 30 feet from the stage. The crowd was ALL people in their 20s and college students from Smith, Amherst and UMASS, etc. The crowd was rowdy but not out of control and they were doing the mosh pit deal, crowd surfing, etc.
Dropkick Murphys came on and as I expected, opened with "Spirit's Alive" BUT the next tune was "Boys on the Dock", then four more in a row from the new CD. The crowd was going nuts and at this point my buddy Nelson says, "Let's go down front!" I'm like "What, are you friggin crazy?" so he takes off towards the front and gets two rows from the stage, front and center right in the middle of the craziness :0 I followed him out there and acutally, I'm glad I did. It was nutty BUT the crowd was really into the tunes but no one was gettin nasty or throwing fists or causing trouble. Even though is was a madhouse, I probably enjoyed the show more being down front since I knew most of the words to most of the songs. I get much more enjoyment out of seeing a show when I KNOW the music and know the words to the songs.
They mixed up the set from what I thought it might be but here's pretty much what they did:
Spirit's Alive
Boys on the Dock
Walking Dead
Sunshine Highway
Citizen CIA
Third Man In (not sure because I don't know the song)
The Burden
From this point on, I don't have the order right because I was on the floor two feet from the stage :0 so the rest is from memory:
Barroom Hero
Finnegan's Wake
Captain Kelly's Kitchen
Buried Alive
As One
Fields of Athenry
Worker's Song
Last Letter Home
Auld Triangle
Amazing Grace
Heroes From Our Past
The Gauntlet
The second to the last song was:
Spicy McHaggis Jig
where all the women in the place get up on stage :0 :love:
The last song was:
Skinhead on the MBTA
and the whole crowd rushed the stage (including me :0 ) and the band kept playing like they weren't even surrounded by 100 people :laugh: The crowd leaves the musicians alone and the bouncers leave the crowd alone, everything works out fine :thumbs:
Then they actually did ANOTHER song (which was unexpected) and I have no idea what it was. I was part of the line of guys on stage trying to keep the crowd on stage away from the amps :laugh: It was cool because the lead singer, the bass player and the bagpipe player thanked us at the end of the show for keeping some sembelence of order on stage for the last two songs
So after surviving a night of being crunched in a crowd of people all night that are young enough to be my kids, Nelson and I are walking out and he tripped on some steps, bangs his head on the corner of the bar and cut himself so badly, we had to go to the emergency room on the way home so he could get stiches :0 Unreal....(they wound up literally using super glue rather than stitches but he was a mess). We went to the hospital in Stafford, CT where the ER Doc is a personal friend of mine AND a cigar smoker :thumbs: He told me I owe him some cigars for putting Nelson's forehead back together :laugh:
One small disappointment was that they did NOT do:
"Time to Go"
their Boston Bruins tribute (probably 'cause the Bruins are sucking arse right now :laugh: )
nor did they play "Which Side Are You On?" which they have been doing in previous shows on this tour.
I've seen hundreds of concerts and live shows in my day but this whole experience was probably the best one in my life. :thumbs:
What a night!!! :thumbs:
