Ed Kowalczyk - Buffalo Options

[pezhead315]

So whos going to the Buffalo show on July 1?

[SJN1279]

So whos going to the Buffalo show on July 1?

Are you going? Can you please post a review when you return?

[icewaterike]

I'm going -- going to be my first Eddie K show (crazy he hasn't played anything this close to Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Toronto yet!)

Looking forward to it. I'll be happy to let you all know how it is.

[Sakhmet2]

So whos going to the Buffalo show on July 1?

I can't go - working that day. I wanna read a review.

[pezhead315]

Buffalo, NY 7/1/10

Just In Time
The Great Beyond
All Over You
Selling The Drama
Zion
Drive
The Dolphins Cry
Soul Whispers
Drink (Everlasting Love)
Stand
Heaven
I Alone

Encore
The Beauty Of Grey
Grace
Rome
Lightning Crashes


Great Show, I would estimate 3000 people. The crowd seemed to enjoy the new songs and was very energentic through the whole show. Alive was being sold at the merch tent, Ed said that since he is on his own label now that he can sell it whenever he wanted so "in Buffalo it comes out July 1." During I Alone there was a large mosh pit, which was pretty unusual to see these days...especially to Live. Overall great show, Ed and the guys hung out after the show to sign autographs and take pictures.

Not too sure how to upload pictures on here..I have a ton.

[LivesMeltdown]

Buffalo, NY 7/1/10

Just In Time
The Great Beyond
All Over You
Selling The Drama
Zion
Drive
The Dolphins Cry
Soul Whispers
Drink (Everlasting Love)
Stand
Heaven
I Alone

Encore
The Beauty Of Grey
Grace
Rome
Lightning Crashes
Great Show, I would estimate 3000 people. The crowd seemed to enjoy the new songs and was very energentic through the whole show. Alive was being sold at the merch tent, Ed said that since he is on his own label now that he can sell it whenever he wanted so "in Buffalo it comes out July 1." During I Alone there was a large mosh pit, which was pretty unusual to see these days...especially to Live. Overall great show, Ed and the guys hung out after the show to sign autographs and take pictures.

Not too sure how to upload pictures on here..I have a ton.

Thanks for the review! Sounds like you had a great time. Looks as though, Ed is playing most of "Alive" now that the album is about to be released.

[TheBeacon]

Just In Time seems a weird choice for an opener. I liked the intro for Drive on you tube earlier. Did he have a new one for Just In Time?

[pezhead315]

It was all about 1997 on Thursday. For better or worse. Mostly worse. Happily, Buffalo’s own Son of the Sun opened this week’s Thursday at the Square and delivered a short but incisive set that proved to be the evening’s best. Performing songs from the recently released “The Happy Loss” album, and finishing off with a torrid take on Lou Reed’s “Rock & Roll,” the band proved itself the equal of groups like Interpol and Kings Of Leon with an inspired collection of songs. Would that all of Thursday could’ve attained this level.

So on to Ed Kowalczyk, then. With Live, the man delivered some of the most yearning-infused anthems of the middle ’90s. Songs like “Lightning Crashes” and “I Alone” seemed to tap into the zeitgeist of a generation wishing for a populist inclusion that it would be denied. No way to get that without selling out, right? I mean, Creed happened, didn’t it? And it’s about to happen again.

Kowalczyk minus his bandmates in Live is an awful lot like Live. But the sense that any of it matters has been obscured by the passage of time. Once Kowalczyk seemed to be the cheerleader at a pep rally announcing some new way forward. Now he just seemes like the guy who stayed at the party way too long.

With an able band backing him, Kowalczyk certainly didn’t embarrass himself. He sang well, and was an able frontman. However, something seemed to be going seriously amiss as he cavorted about the stage, intermingling bad Bon Jovi moves with ill-timed crotch-thrusts. The end result was akin to a bad aerobics video with a halfhearted ’90s grunge sound-track. Clearly, the man is in need of a way to move forward.

There were not many moments of genuine mid-’90s anthemic brilliance happening, though. Live’s “The Dolphin’s Cry” revealed the tinge of Eastern philosophy Kowalczyk adopted in the late ’90s, and few could’ve denied the power of any of the “Throwing Copper” material the singer summoned forth.

Sadly, though, all of this came across as a sort of oldies act, a pageant celebrating the glory day of grunge. Live was never really a grunge band. Kowalczyk should reconsider his career’s path. He is clearly capable of better.

REVIEW

WHO: Ed Kowalczyk

WHEN: Thursday evening as part of Thursday at the Square

WHERE: Lafayette Square

[icewaterike]

This is an overhead shot of the Ed K show in Buffalo

[OutToDry]

so picnic groves and vegas are not far off?

[jclive]

so picnic groves and vegas are not far off?

Ed's damn near 40 years old. Nothing wrong with playing in a new environment.

I'd go see Ed in Vegas!

And as far as that picture is concerned, I'd go see him there too. Give me a chair and a table for my bottle of wine as well, please.

[OutToDry]

if anyone is mad I at JC, say the word, I'll hunt him down.......

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Jul 13 2010, 2:44 pm

[ItchyTriggerFinger]

This is an overhead shot of the Ed K show in Buffalo

Where in Buffalo is that, Ike? Is that the center of a park? Looks like an interesting little venue for a summer show.

[icewaterike]

Where in Buffalo is that, Ike? Is that the center of a park? Looks like an interesting little venue for a summer show.

Believe it or not, it's right in the middle of the downtown (Lafayette Square). It's surrounded by tall buildings, which is where the photo above must have been taken from.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q...027874&t=h&z=16

This post has been edited by icewaterike: Jul 13 2010, 3:43 pm

[jclive]

if anyone is mad I at JC, say the word, I'll hunt him down.......

huh?