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[SJN1279]

If anyone has a setlist or review of the Phoenix show that took place on October 19th, please post it here.

[SJN1279]

Found this on the Collective Soul board:

I saw CS at the Roxy on the Hollywood strip just after the release of Youth. And at that quaint little club of 200 or so, the crowd was intimate with CS and the show (naturally) rocked.

Fast forward to last night...

Nightmare! As has been previously posted many times, the sound REALLY sucked. Ed was barely audible and Joel was knifing through everything within 5 miles. I don't know who made the decision on that mix, all I can say is it SUCKED big time.

The show seemed to be forced, it was like they were at work rather than having a good time playing a gig. I know this because i saw them when they were awesome.

Ed actually apologized and advised early on that they were doing a REALLY short set....and it most certainly was.... about 45 minutes I believe. They played their greatest hits, along with Hollywood (Dirty Deeds riff included). Remember, I'm a CS fan, so of course I enjoyed the music and the show, I was just disappointed that it wasn't one of their better nights.

Contrary to what I've been reading, Live was most definately the main event. People were COMING not going as Live was getting ready to take the stage. And they kicked ass. Their sound was very good, the lead guitar may have needed a boost, but other than that they sounded great. The vocals were top notch...Ed K definately has some pipes...and the backing vocals and harmonies were awesome. The stage show was pretty good, nothing ground breaking, but they were fun to watch. They played the crowd well too. Much to my surprise I really liked "I walk the line" - it was fun. My favorite song of the entire night was Dolphin's Cry - they ROCKED it. I was hoping I might get lucky and see a different show where Ed doesn't take off his shirt, but I didn't - and I really didn't need to see that. A 40 year old voice in a 13 year old body just doesn't work for me.

All in all, it was a good night. The people I was with really enjoyed both bands. I did too. I guess I just know what CS is like at the top of their game and was disappointed they didn't bring it. If I was gonna rate the 3 most recent performances I witnessed, it would go like this: the Roxy, the Home DVD , Last night.

Collective Soul is one of my favorite bands and the show at the Roxy is still one of my favorite shows, however, last night they took second prize.

[SJN1279]

Art from the fansoflive myspace wrote:

All I have say is Hell Yes!!!! Live rocked the house. The band played great as always. Ed was looking like he has been pumping some iron. The only thing that I could say that would have made the show a little better would be if the fans would have had a little more freedom to move about, everyone had seats and you could not get up close, but let me say this I love the band and there was no way i was going to be sitting down! I always look forward to a Live show and wiil be forever a fan and friend of Live
Thank You

[Existentialist]

Thanks for finding the review, Nick. That makes two consecutive reviews by non Live fans that were very positive for Live and very negative for Ed's dancing and stripping!

[beau99]

Ya know Ex...

as much as I can't stand you, you make this site interesting, to say the very least.

As for the reviews...

Damn. I could've gone to the show, but plans changed and another opportunity to see Live went down the damn drain.

[Het]

Collective Soul was ok. They played 45 minutes and were out. Live came on and only played 45 minutes as well. I was expecting at least an hour or hour and 15 minute show from them. I guess you get what you pay for... General admission tickets were only $12 bucks and there were plenty of seats in the first riser section off the stage. The sound was very good, there were a few issues with the guitar sound and Ed sounded great for the most part. They did pack in all the big hits into the short set, except for White Discussion. I wish I could get to one of the shows that is 20 plus songs long and an hour and a half to two hours long, but those are few and far between for this band. Set list (not in order) was:

All Over You
Selling The Drama
The River
I Walk The Line
The Dolphin's Cry
Lakini's Juice
Lightning Crashes
I Alone
The Beauty of Gray
Heaven

[SJN1279]

Live and Collective Soul at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, Friday, October 19
Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 05:28:21 PM
Live and Collective Soul: Placentas on the floor and a groove core as deep as the Grand Canyon.

By Luke Holwerda

Friday night at the AZ State Fair, traffic was terrible. I just barely made the gig. As I made my way to the pit area, Collective Soul's techs were making last minute adjustments to the guitar amps. Moments later, the lights went down.

At this point (7 p.m.), the house is only at 1/4 capacity, if that. A pretty sad showing -- maybe rock IS dead? I get a text from my friend Chris, a huge Live fan and an even HUGER Collective Soul fan...who paid $300 for 3rd row tickets. He says he’s been stuck in traffic and he’s freakin’ out. He eventually shows up, moments into the third song. Collective Soul put on a really great show. They had a lot of hits I had forgotten about, and with only 45 minutes of set time, it was jam-packed. I've never been a “fan” of theirs, but the show was entertaining, with a lot of energy from everyone on stage. I could tell they were enjoying themselves, rather than just going through the motions. Throughout their set, there was a lot of fan interaction and participation...a lot of trading lines of the choruses with the audience. At one particular breakdown in the set, just before the extended outro of a song, lead singer Ed Roland shouted out, "Most of you know what to do now, some of you don’t. For everyone else, I will teach you. I’m your teacher," before breaking into "whoa-oh-oh, heaven let your light shine down." After a few repetitions, the band dropped the instrumentation down to just a bass drum and some light bass notes. Meanwhile, behind me, I heard an older fellow growl to his group of concert-going comrades, "That’s a groove core as deep as the Grand Canyon!" I smiled and texted myself that line so as not to forget it. Collective Soul's set ended on a big rock coda with Ed yelling, "Tell your friends, tell your family, you've seen Collective Soul!" I did just that, Edo.

Maybe 30 minutes later, Live took over. I was excited to see them and even threw up my devil horns when lead singer Ed Kowalczyk showed up in front of me. (I was a fan up through their fourth album, Distance to Here, just to be clear.) This was another short set, but similarly bubbling with hits. They opened with "All Over You," and the arena, which was now more than half full, responded in a roar. Lead guitarist Chad Taylor stomped around stage in a manner almost too rockin' for the song; he would sort of get low in his stance and stomp back and forth, shifting his weight from one foot to the next (think: Donkey Kong). Again, they were happy to rock. Live managed to touch on every album in their catalog, even in their short amount of time. I was pleased to hear "The Beauty of Gray" from the band's first album, Mental Jewelry, a nice, acoustic-driven throwback which played very well in the live environment. The band even snuck in a cover of Johnny Cash's "Walk the Line." Ed described it as "A good cover of a GREAT song." I will give them “good” -- it was sort of odd. It rocked in the choruses, but it was somehow MORE monotone than when Johnny Cash sang it. Toward the end of the set, the first few lines of "I Alone" crept in unassumingly, and the song took on a slightly different progression as it reached the bridge. Before Ed would sing the line "We took it back too far/only love can save us now," he had something to say: "Do you watch the news? 'Cause I watch the news from time to time."

At this point, I shook my head, stopped tapping my toe, and waited for some B.S. political banter I did not want to hear at a concert. But to my delight, all Ed said was, "I see what’s going on in the world today, and I think the world needs our love." Phew, that was at least unspecific! "What we in Live like to do, is have the audience help us generate a psychic cosmic love thing, and spread it all over the globe. Will you help us?" Of course I said "Sure;" that's harmless enough. So we all sang the word "Love" over and over. Yay for hippies. Finally, "Lightning Crashes" ended the set. What a great song. Something about hearing thousands of people singing "Her placenta falls to the floor" in unison is really soothing to me. My greasy food-induced stomach ache was gone. Thank you, Live.

After the show, I met up with Chris. All he had to say was, "It was a good show. Of course it rocked, but for the $300 I spent on the tickets alone, I thought I would have rocked that hard for a longer amount of time."


Tags: Arizona State Fair, Collective

[Het]

$300 bucks for a 45 minute set? That's insane. I also got caught in the traffic jam the last time Live played this venue in 1999 and missed the entire show except for 2 songs!! I paid a lot less than that to see Live in Lake Havasu last year and was front row and met the entire band after the show too. We paid the $12 bucks to get into this show and moved down to the first reserved section and had a better view of the stage than the floor seats did.

[Hoodstock]

$300 bucks for a 45 minute set? That's insane.