The Gracious Few @ Summerfest Tonight, Thread for the Event Options

[OutToDry]

TGF at Summerfest tonight. 10pm on TheCoolTV Stage



Here is a photo from soundcheck





Webcam is located here from the Summerfest Website (Pick the North gate camera as this is near the CoolTV Stage) - might get to see them on here.

http://www.summerfest.com/cam/

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Jun 25 2010, 4:28 pm

[Ellroy80]

Got to see the boys at Summerfest on Friday night. First let's get the one and only bad thing out of the way - the crowd was pretty small. Shame for the guys, but kinda expected considering they don't have an album out yet, and Public Enemy, Tom Petty, Jeff Beck, and 311 were on at the same time.

Now onto the good stuff - these guys f%^&ing rock!!!! New songs are awesome, sound was good. Favs were probably Closer, Sing and Nothin' But Love. CT was going off, Martin has an amazing voice with a ridiculous range, Sean was killing the solos, Pat was tight on the bass (would like to see some slap in there at some stage!) and Gracey was his usual killer self, driving the whole thing. They sound tight, sound really good live, and had a lot of fun on stage.

Got to meet them after the show, got my t-shirt signed by all of them and have a quick chat. Album in September, tour to follow.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Got to see the boys at Summerfest on Friday night. First let's get the one and only bad thing out of the way - the crowd was pretty small. Shame for the guys, but kinda expected considering they don't have an album out yet, and Public Enemy, Tom Petty, Jeff Beck, and 311 were on at the same time.

To compound things, their stage was on the far end so there was no walking traffic and the festival didn't really advertise them as members of Live and Candlebox. A lot of people asked me about my shirt throughout the day and were a lot more interested when I mentioned Live and Candlebox. I thought they should have gotten a 8pm slot on a stage with someone like Jeff Beck or 311, that would have really gotten them a lot more exposure.

That said, they put on one hell of a show and really seemed to have a great time. They were tight and really going all out all over the stage. It was great to see Kevin go all out, and Chad T. was getting his stomp on in all the right places. He and Sean really interacted a lot during the solos and seemed to be having a great time. As for the setlist, it was similar to the York show with a bit of a different order. They played a cover but we had had a lot of beer throughout the day so I can't quite recall it since it wasn't a song that I was really familiar with. However, it was a damn cool version and we rocked out to it!!

After the show we met all of the guys and talked to Sean and Gracey for a little bit before they were swooped away by management. We were the only people we saw with TGF shirts on already, and they seemed genuinely happy to be getting the support. We told them all how much we dig the new songs.

Here are some photos, there are also some of the other bands we watched (and made fun of) but there are some cool shots of TGF there:

http://picasaweb.google.com/genres/SummerfestJune25#

[Ellroy80]

To compound things, their stage was on the far end so there was no walking traffic and the festival didn't really advertise them as members of Live and Candlebox. A lot of people asked me about my shirt throughout the day and were a lot more interested when I mentioned Live and Candlebox. I thought they should have gotten a 8pm slot on a stage with someone like Jeff Beck or 311, that would have really gotten them a lot more exposure.

That said, they put on one hell of a show and really seemed to have a great time. They were tight and really going all out all over the stage. It was great to see Kevin go all out, and Chad T. was getting his stomp on in all the right places. He and Sean really interacted a lot during the solos and seemed to be having a great time. As for the setlist, it was similar to the York show with a bit of a different order. They played a cover but we had had a lot of beer throughout the day so I can't quite recall it since it wasn't a song that I was really familiar with. However, it was a damn cool version and we rocked out to it!!

After the show we met all of the guys and talked to Sean and Gracey for a little bit before they were swooped away by management. We were the only people we saw with TGF shirts on already, and they seemed genuinely happy to be getting the support. We told them all how much we dig the new songs.

Here are some photos, there are also some of the other bands we watched (and made fun of) but there are some cool shots of TGF there:

http://picasaweb.google.com/genres/SummerfestJune25#

Couldn't agree more with all of this. I got to see one of the setlists that was thrown out, the only song I didn't know was T.R.O.Y., so I assume this was the cover. However, the only reference I can find to that is hip-hop, and what they played certainly wasn't that!!!! Maybe a rock version of it???

FWIW I wasn't that impressed with the cover of Lakini's Juice. It just didn't sound the same. I hope that TGF actually don't play any Live covers, because their original stuff kicks major ass!!! Definitely got a SS sort of vibe. And think about it, you don't hear Them Crooked Vultures etc doing any covers from their respective original bands right?? Let Live go and move forward!

And you weren't the only one there with a TGF t-shirt

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Couldn't agree more with all of this. I got to see one of the setlists that was thrown out, the only song I didn't know was T.R.O.Y., so I assume this was the cover. However, the only reference I can find to that is hip-hop, and what they played certainly wasn't that!!!! Maybe a rock version of it???

FWIW I wasn't that impressed with the cover of Lakini's Juice. It just didn't sound the same. I hope that TGF actually don't play any Live covers, because their original stuff kicks major ass!!! Definitely got a SS sort of vibe. And think about it, you don't hear Them Crooked Vultures etc doing any covers from their respective original bands right?? Let Live go and move forward!

And you weren't the only one there with a TGF t-shirt

Ah man! I didn't see you then! Well, the three of us were probably the only ones there wearing a TGF shirt that I saw.

T.R.O.Y. is The Rest of You, which is a TGF song.