The Fillmore, Denver, October 7th Options

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Just looking to see if anyone can provide info on how the shows are going and the estimated playing times with Emerson Hart-CS- Live. My son, who I got hooked on Live and is now a huge fan, just turned 16 and I'm thrilled to be taking him to Live at the Fillmore. Their show last year here in Denver was incredible and he's gonna be floored. Anyway, the show starts at 7:30 and I'm just trying to see if anyone has an idea about how long Emerson and CS will play and an estimate of when Live might come on.

Thanks!

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Here's my take on last night's show in Denver...
Show scheduled to start at 7:30pm with Emerson Hart and CS opening. I showed up with my 16yr old in tow at about 9pm - perfect timing as CS had just finished and many folks were streaming out. Was able to move up on the GA floor to about 20ft away. The Fillmore is a pretty small venue - a HS gym sized main floor that is all GA and some limited seating available on the raised sides. Overall a very cool place to see a show - not sure what the size is but my guess is 1000-1500 or so.

The boys came on just after 9:30...

All Over You
Waitress - a great version and lots of energy from Ed on this - he seemed to really want to get the crowd into it from the start.

The River
Mirror Song
Dolphins Cry
They Stood Up For Love
Selling the Drama
I Walk the Line
Wings
Beauty of Gray
Run To The Water

Ok, I have to say to this point the crowd was very lame. Don't know if it's because of the CS mix of fans, but Ed seemed to be doing his best to get the crowd into it, to no avail. When Live played the Paramount last year the energy in the crowd was about 10 times higher and kept growing for each song. This crowd was very disappointing, but fortunately their lack of energy didn't really seem to bring the band down. For the next song, though, Ed really kicked it into a different gear...

I Alone - high energy, great version, really working to get the crowd going.
Heaven - awesome - two songs in a row with the crowd now much more engaged

Encore...
Sophia
Lakini's Juice
Lightning Crashes

Overall I thought the band put on a really good show - just disappointed in the crowd. Certainly would have been much better with an "all-Live" audience.

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Sorry for the delay, its been a crazy week. Here is my mini-review. Some friends took some picts, I'll post once I get them. Keep your eyes on DIME

The Fillmore was pretty crowded already, even though the first opener, Emerson Hart, was almost done with their set. We worked our way up just in front of the sound board.

I was very apprehensive of the crowd at the “co-headlining” shows, since 1/2 of the crowd is there to see one band and not the other. Collective Soul took the stage and played mostly new material and then broke out the hits for the rest of their set. Ed got the crowd going and put on a surprisingly entertaining show. Lots of singing along and thinking to myself, “wow I know a lot more of these songs than I thought”. However, Ed really needs to find something else to do on stage, his obsession with dancing with, swinging, tossing, etc. the mic stand was a little odd.

Overheard during the Collective Soul set “I didn’t know this was a Gin Blossoms song?” I’m not a fan of CS but come on! Please check you ticket stub. I think there needs to be some sort of quiz at the front door…”Name one song or album from the bands you are about to see.”

Live took the stage a new intro song that I had not heard before. The set started off great with All Over You and kept the energy going until about Wings where the “mixed” crowd lost interest in songs they really weren’t familiar with. However, from I Alone thru the encore the crowd was back in it. I still can’t wrap my head around the Lakini’s Juice > Lightening Crashes segue. Lakini’s Juice rocked. Chad T. was stomping and jumping throughout the set. The friends we went to the show with had never seen Live but had listened to them during their heyday and were impressed by the show. I thought it was a good show, good energy, but something was missing. Maybe it was the “mixed” crowd, the larger venue, the loss of energy in the middle of the set.

This post has been edited by brianblank: Oct 13 2007, 10:13 am