Carbon Leaf
20 May 2009 02:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vibrantabyssWow, that was some show. Disorganized comments cause it's well past bedtime:
Carbon Leaf played many old favorites as well as four tracks from their new CD - release date today, the kickoff to their new tour after an n year hiatus. They new enough to not only thank the crowd for showing up on a night the Sox were playing, but gave us updates.
This was a heavy audience participation show. After a bit of a warmup - the opening band led us in singing several refrains, and Barry encouraged us to do the same during their second song... and the audience ran with it. He actually gave up singing What About Everything in the middle of the second verse, since the audience was doing a fine job of belting it out. He came back in partway through the 3rd, and you could tell he was enjoying this immensely. W.A.E. is one of my least favorite CL songs - more because it had too much airplay than any other reason, but I rather enjoyed this collaboration. There were several jams - nothing approaching a Phish jam, but still nice to hear them cut loose.
The encore was four or five songs, depending on how one counts. For the 1st song, the band came out, gathered at the edge of the stage and treated us to a pure acoustic (not even mics) version of Learn to Fly. They pulled out the lead guitarist and singer from the opening band for numbers 3, 4, and the close, which they did a nice cover of "Sweet Emotion".
Oh, and the opening band, Alternate Routes, was (after a rough open) pretty damn good.
Sad they didn't play Toy Soldiers, which is my personal fav, but I don't recall them doing it even on the Echo Echo tour.
Sleep now.
Carbon Leaf played many old favorites as well as four tracks from their new CD - release date today, the kickoff to their new tour after an n year hiatus. They new enough to not only thank the crowd for showing up on a night the Sox were playing, but gave us updates.
This was a heavy audience participation show. After a bit of a warmup - the opening band led us in singing several refrains, and Barry encouraged us to do the same during their second song... and the audience ran with it. He actually gave up singing What About Everything in the middle of the second verse, since the audience was doing a fine job of belting it out. He came back in partway through the 3rd, and you could tell he was enjoying this immensely. W.A.E. is one of my least favorite CL songs - more because it had too much airplay than any other reason, but I rather enjoyed this collaboration. There were several jams - nothing approaching a Phish jam, but still nice to hear them cut loose.
The encore was four or five songs, depending on how one counts. For the 1st song, the band came out, gathered at the edge of the stage and treated us to a pure acoustic (not even mics) version of Learn to Fly. They pulled out the lead guitarist and singer from the opening band for numbers 3, 4, and the close, which they did a nice cover of "Sweet Emotion".
Oh, and the opening band, Alternate Routes, was (after a rough open) pretty damn good.
Sad they didn't play Toy Soldiers, which is my personal fav, but I don't recall them doing it even on the Echo Echo tour.
Sleep now.
