We reached the venue - white river amphitheater - at 3:30pm to take in some of the other music playing as part of EndFest 15. Modest mouse and snow patrol cancelled, the latter on the last day due to a terrorist threat - they're irish. The main stage wasn't due to start belting out music till 5, so we hung around the second stage and caught some of the subways and eagles of death metal - the eagles were good, the subways were subpar. wolfmother started playing on the main stage before we got to our seats, and we caught their last song. i'm just sorry we missed the rest of their act - they were good.
here's the fun part - the mars volta came in belting out some weird number. then, when they be done with words, they start jamming - but not the good sort of jam, the repeat-the-same-notes-till-we-cant-bear-it sort. after a minute of that sh*t, we walked off to get some food in. turns out we missed out on the good part of their act ..
while we were eating in the food area, some idiot threw a bottle filled with warm urine on one of the band members, understandably pissing the band off. the cops took him roughly off the moshpit, cuffs and hair pulled back and everything, but the damage was done - the band completed their song and shut off, so we had a nice 45-minute break to wait for the peppers to show up. and that's when things got really interesting ..
It was an amazing set, with more than a few beautiful jams between Flea & Frusciante. Throughout the set, I was high like I was on coke or something, jumping around and headbanging. I thought the songs from their new album were slower and poppier than I expected, and I wish they had more funk in 'em - with more flea and with stronger basslines - but i can't complain about the quality of the music, which was fantastic. The encore shoutout had us screaming and banging seats for like 5 minutes - awesome cardio/aerobic workout ;). It was that good.
Here, in brief, were the highlights:
- the concert started with 'cant stop', and i went nuclear (again, thank you 40hz)
- not more than 15 seconds of pause between songs during the entire set, if even that
- a lot of new material from their new Stadium Arcadium album (5 songs)
- 3-4 jams, the last one going on for close to 10 minutes and including the drummer (chad) for the first 5
- frusciante doing beautiful lead improvs on all songs
- 'throw away your television'
- frusciante soloing on "how deep is your love" by the bee gees .. nothing but vocals and lead guitar
- the noise level for the encore call by the audience was deafening .. and we contributed
- chad drum solo in encore -- supi you would have gone crazy!
- 'give it away' in encore, with the final jam
- the group behind us telling me 'your rock, dude', presumably because of my enthusiasm ;)
A couple of fest regulars told me the main act generally performs for an hour, but I got the feeling that they would carry on for at least 1.5 hrs, if not 2. i was not disappointed ==> 9:15 to 10:50, with the only real pause being the 5-minute screaming and seat-thumping before the encore.
The verdict: For the sheer concert experience, this was better than IO. Of course this excludes the IO night-jam part of things :)
Sleeptime. gnite all.
~setlist~
intro jam
can't stop
dani california
scar tissue
charlie
otherside
warlocks
flea guitar solo, into
throw away your television (with long jam ending)
snow (hey oh)
me & my friends
stadium arcadium
right on time
flea guitar solo, into
don't forget me
how deep is your love (john vocal solo)
tell me baby
californication (with long flea & john intro)
by the way
~encore~
chad drum solo
98 oldsmobile intro, into
give it away
long jam (awesome!)
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