TMBG @ The Vic, Chicago 11/10/07

Yay! I'm so excited for the show tonight!! I haven't been to a concert in a while. I'm hoping that the crowd will be better than that other TMBG show I was at, and that it was a crummy crowd just because of the geographic locale. However, I was listening to that Bowery Ballroom concert recording and it was making me very excited for the show!
There isn't even a specific song I'm hoping they'll play because I know whatever they do play is gonna be amazing! Ok, well I would really like to hear Climbing the Walls, but anything will be great!

So yeah, I'll post in this thread and give a review of the show tonight or tomorrow!



but I'm a little disappointed about how the tmbg newsletters were like omgomg chicago sellout! and its not sold out, because then I could have gotten my ticket at the venue and saved $15 because of no ticketgouge.. er ticketmaster fees. Not so much for me, but for my buddy who is really strapped for cash who is going with me.

Setlist now, review tomorrow.

Cap'm
Damn Good Times
Why Does the Sun Shine?
Take Out the Trash
Alphabet of Nations
Particle Man
-----------w/ Horns------------
Mr. Me
She's Actual Size
Bee of the Bird of the Moth
Dirtbike
Spy
----------end Horns------------
Older
Birdhouse in Your Soul
Shadow Government
Drink
She's an Angel
I'm Impressed
Cyclops Rock
-----------w/ Horns------------
Withered Hope
Museum of Idiots
With the Dark
Dr. Worm
----------end Horns------------

Encore:
Fingertips
Boss of Me (Short version)
The Mesopotamians

Encore 2:
Maybe I Know
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

I just got back from the show and it was amazing!!

It did end up selling out!
It was at a really sweet venue that I'd never been to before, and the crowd was good!

I had so much fun. Oppenheimer was solid. I liked their show even though I didn't buy their cd or anything and wouldn't really listen to it. It seemed they played for the perfect amount of time too.

Then TMBG came on and it was just awesome.
They rocked so hard. It was perfect, they played all the songs I wanted to see but didn't when I saw them this summer like Why Does The Sun Shine and Fingertips and Drink! and The Mesopotamians. There was no phonecalls from the dead, but they had "worlds largest pretend intervention" to the song Drink! which was funny. Whenever They sang the word 'drink' in the song, the balcony yelled "NO!" and the floor yelled "WAIT!" It was great.

They had the "Triceratops Horns" with them, which were like the Velcro Horns, but no Mark Pender (another trumped dude that rocked!).

They were also much tighter on the Else songs they played. They made a bunch of lyric slip ups when I saw them this summer, but it was perfect this time around.

They played for almost a full two hours, which was awesome.

sounds great, you guys!

i've been having a really busy weekend cuz the kids are home, so i'd kind of forgotten about your show. what a nice surprise to come here & see a thread about it!

i would love to get horns some time...

you guys didn't see eachother, did you?

Thanks for the setlist and the write-up, guys! Sounds like it was an excellent show.

Yeah, where were you standing, Thunderbird? I was standing at the railing on the second tier up from the floor on the left side of the middle section (blah complicated description) wearing a green shirt.
Also, I don't think I would recognize you had I seen you.

But yeah, such a good show.

It was my friend's very first concert, and I think he had a good time

I was standing about four rows back from the stage, in front of Dan Miller. Which, strangely, is where I was last time they came to The Vic.

aww, too bad you didn't get to meet.

i'm glad you both had such a good time though. did anybody take any pictures?

that's the place with the big oriental rug, right?

thanks for the write-ups and setlists guys it sounds like a really fun show, I'd just love to see 'em with the Horns that thing during 'Drink' sounded really fun too

that's cool that your friend had a good time too lajoyce

they did that Drink! thing in Memphis too... but without horns.

hmm, I didn;t see the oriental rug...

maybe i'm thinking of a different place.

just a sec...

ok, it was the Old Town School Of Folk Music. i was confused.

http://diderot.uchicago.edu/~achou/tmbg/20.../pics/index.htm
they're down at the bottom.

The woman who runs that website, she graduated from my school and now teaches here! The website is hosted on our school's webspace, with her ucID, so looked her up in the school directory and it says shes a uchicago alum, and a lecturer (teaches french). I looked her up on the teacher evaluations webpage, and everyone liked her as a french teacher haha. Shes also on facebook

She has an epic number of shows listed she's been to on there! She's a TMBG superfan!

yeah. she also posts on LiveJournal as "aliste". i'm assuming that's her first name.

is this the first time you've seen her site? she has lots of good stuff on there.

small world, huh?

here's her tmbw userpage... http://tmbw.net/wiki/User:Aliste i think she moved to California. plus, i've seen some reviews of California shows by her recently.

she's been to 42 shows.

yeah thats the first time I've seen the site, it looks awesome, I'll have to check it out later. I know I would have noticed it was a uchicago.edu site

Her first name's Alice.

But yeah, definitely small world! Last week on another small forum, I found out some other poster on there was in the same graduating class as me at my HS. Turns out we didn't know eachother IRL (we went to a really big HS- almost 600 kids in our class)

that's amazing I'd love to have a TMBG fan teacher that's pretty cool about the classmate thing too, you must have went to a big high school

that is so cool about your long lost classmate.

i never had a teacher who was a TMBG fan. probably because i graduated in 1980.

sounds like a great show!!!


congratz on finding ur old classmate.

I use to have a spanish teacher who was a TMBG fan

too bad she was a b!+ch