Roll Call - Louisville, KY 4/25-30/2025

[DaydreamNation]

Agreed about how cool the unplugged Bermuda was. Chills by the end, said to the guy in front of me "that's the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life"

Relistening to Sun night now that it's on Nugs and it's possibly even better than I remembered? What an incredible run

[LBSUNFLWR]

I also loved all 3 nights but Sunday was my favorite.

Getting ready to head downtown for Night 4!! There's still so many big songs still out there!!! 

[LBSUNFLWR]

I've been hoping for Rollin' Back live for years. Part of the reason I had to go all five nights was for the chance to hear Rollin' Back, so it was the obvious highlight for me!!

AEIOU and I Will Be There When You Die were my other best moments.

Still so many songs available for tonight. Hoping to hear Master Plan, At Dawn and Phone Went West tonight.

Wishing for Just One Thing and Where To Begin. ❤️

[LBSUNFLWR]

Everyday People was a lot of fun too!

Really great and unexpected covers this run.

[ericm]

I've been hoping for Rollin' Back live for years. Part of the reason I had to go all five nights was for the chance to hear Rollin' Back, so it was the obvious highlight for me!!

AEIOU and I Will Be There When You Die were my other best moments.

Still so many songs available for tonight. Hoping to hear Master Plan, At Dawn and Phone Went West tonight.

Wishing for Just One Thing and Where To Begin. ❤️

Good chance you get them. How crazy is it they can do a five night no repeat run and still have so many good tunes yet to be played?

I'm telling ya, we've got to get them to do an Allman's like Beacon March run. Take the whole month or most of it every year like they did and do 2-3 shows then one night off.

The Allmans started their run with four shows and eventually got it up to the teens with I believe 19 shows being their high water mark in 99. From then on it was usually around 14 shows every March until their last shows in 2014.

Man how I looked forward to March and the Allmans. It was an incredible 25 year run. With only the early years of that run starting in 89 not being consecutive years. Once they hit 96 it was every year! I'd love to see our guys take over the Beacon every year like that!

[MPP]

This is an excellent suggestion. 

And unlike the Allman Brothers, they could probably do at least 7-8 shows and manage no repeats! Their catalogue and 3-4 covers a night would just about do it 😉

The interest to buy tix would be helped by 'I gotta see my white whale' obsessions.  lol

[MPP]

I've been hoping for Rollin' Back live for years. Part of the reason I had to go all five nights was for the chance to hear Rollin' Back, so it was the obvious highlight for me!!

AEIOU and I Will Be There When You Die were my other best moments.

Still so many songs available for tonight. Hoping to hear Master Plan, At Dawn and Phone Went West tonight.

Wishing for Just One Thing and Where To Begin. ❤️

Yes, all those! A good chunk of these are likely too -

Slow Slow Tune.
Victory Dance
Wonderful
Golden
Nashville to Kentucky ( this has to be played right?)
Waterfall
Evil Urges
Only Memories

Lots left.  Some regular big covers still out there too.  My white whale is Hillside Song!

[LBSUNFLWR]

I'd prefer they keep at The Palace though vs The Beacon. 

[slappymoe]

tuesday and wednesday shows are not selling as well as one might expect.  they've even closed off the upper balcony.
as of now i'm comfortable with just 3 shows, but the thought of a couple of weeknight shows at a half-filled palace intrigues me.....

getting home around midnight and having the alarm go off at 3:50 for work kinda sucks, but i'm glad i pulled the trigger on nights 4 and 5.  doesn't look like either night will sell out, but tuesday certainly wasn't just "half-filled".  good crowd, if a bit more subdued.

i need 4th of July tonight. and sooner. and a beatles or who cover. and i need them to start at 8:45 and finish at 11. 2 openers and starting around 9:30 is no good for weeknight shows.

[LBSUNFLWR]

4th of July would be nice. I'd always welcome more Carl.

For sure like 85% full. Top rows of upstairs empty and that's it

[ericm]

I'd prefer they keep at The Palace though vs The Beacon. 

It doesn't have to be one or the other. I'm be fine with both, and will be in L'Ville for the next run no doubt. Bummed to have missed this one but I just couldn't work out the timing.

One of the great things about the Allman's runs were it was always in March. No speculating about would they do it or when. I met so many people over the years who took some vacation time, or did a few weekends in March type of thing.

They would plan early for flights and places to stay, and it didn't matter which ones, you knew you'd get shows. That whole area on the Upper  East side was an Allmans cottage industry for the month. Such a fun time no matter when or how many shows you did, and it worked for so many because it wasn't a hit or miss small run.

They were the first band I knew who did a residency and they were ahead of their time with that. I would love to see our guys do something like that every year, whatever month and however many shows. Eight over two weeks would be a great start with a chance to add more.

[APR]

I'd prefer they keep at The Palace though vs The Beacon. 

It doesn't have to be one or the other. I'm be fine with both, and will be in L'Ville for the next run no doubt. Bummed to have missed this one but I just couldn't work out the timing.

One of the great things about the Allman's runs were it was always in March. No speculating about would they do it or when. I met so many people over the years who took some vacation time, or did a few weekends in March type of thing.

They would plan early for flights and places to stay, and it didn't matter which ones, you knew you'd get shows. That whole area on the Upper  East side was an Allmans cottage industry for the month. Such a fun time no matter when or how many shows you did, and it worked for so many because it wasn't a hit or miss small run.

They were the first band I knew who did a residency and they were ahead of their time with that. I would love to see our guys do something like that every year, whatever month and however many shows. Eight over two weeks would be a great start with a chance to add more.

Great idea.  I hope they do something like this one day too.

[APR]

I've been hoping for Rollin' Back live for years. Part of the reason I had to go all five nights was for the chance to hear Rollin' Back, so it was the obvious highlight for me!!

AEIOU and I Will Be There When You Die were my other best moments.

Still so many songs available for tonight. Hoping to hear Master Plan, At Dawn and Phone Went West tonight.

Wishing for Just One Thing and Where To Begin. ❤️

It also took me forever to hear Rollin Back.  I knew it was guaranteed at an It Still Moves show, but I heard it before that in Chicago at a regular show.  I was pleasantly surprised!

[ericm]

I'd prefer they keep at The Palace though vs The Beacon. 

It doesn't have to be one or the other. I'm be fine with both, and will be in L'Ville for the next run no doubt. Bummed to have missed this one but I just couldn't work out the timing.

One of the great things about the Allman's runs were it was always in March. No speculating about would they do it or when. I met so many people over the years who took some vacation time, or did a few weekends in March type of thing.

They would plan early for flights and places to stay, and it didn't matter which ones, you knew you'd get shows. That whole area on the Upper  East side was an Allmans cottage industry for the month. Such a fun time no matter when or how many shows you did, and it worked for so many because it wasn't a hit or miss small run.

They were the first band I knew who did a residency and they were ahead of their time with that. I would love to see our guys do something like that every year, whatever month and however many shows. Eight over two weeks would be a great start with a chance to add more.

Great idea.  I hope they do something like this one day too.

Steely Dan started doing a Beacon Residency as well and their's was usually in October and not as long. At first I think it's was something like 2 three night runs on consecutive weeks but evolved into more after a couple of years.

They  had some interesting concepts though on how they did each year. They would usually do three whole album nights plus other songs each night and they announced in advance what album would be done on which night. Pretty cool as it gave fans the chance to see their favorite or get a song they had been chasing.

Then the other nights were usually a Greatest Hits night, and they did  an internet request night. If you chose that night, they'd send a follow up email with around 25-30 songs, and each person got to pick 20, with the band saying they would play the 20-22 most requested.

I was fortunate to be only about 90 easy minutes away from NYC and over the years got to see my favorite five albums, the internet night and a greatest hits night. Plus I did  Aja and The Royal Scam twice over the years.

Sorry if this hijacked the thread a bit and don't want to take anything away from what I know was an incredible L'Ville run. It was just something I've been thinking about and would love to see our guys do. Hell,I'd love if they did it in L'Ville as well, and was something we could count on say every April.

[LBSUNFLWR]

Overall a truly unforgettable week!

I saw 46 songs for the first time!

[sillyboob]

Overall a truly unforgettable week!

I saw 46 songs for the first time!

Wow, that's really cool.  What a great time.

[MPP]

I saw 46 songs for the first time!

Wow! That's pretty awesome.
Fantastic week, first time in Louisville. You locals have yourselves a very cool town, really enjoyed it.

Still can't believe they didn't do Nashville to Kentucky.  Tonight I Wanna Celebrate was another.  Stellar setlists though, thought N5 was tied with N3 for best shows.  N5 energy was off the charts all night.

[LBSUNFLWR]

Agreed. Sunday and Wednesday were my favorite nights.

Glad you enjoyed Louisville. I moved here 13 years ago and I've always loved it here.

[ranyart]

In addition to Nashville to Kentucky, I was very surprised they skipped Welcome Home.

We had a great time in Louisville as well.  Even though we live close we really don't spend much time there because our families are from Cincinnati, so having an extended stay in Louisville is rare (maybe the only other times were for Forecastle).  The new thing we did this time which I really enjoyed was to check out the lock on the Ohio River which is just west of downtown.  It has a nice observation platform for nerds like me, and it also has a cool bridge you can drive or walk over that goes over the whole lock system to an island where they do maintenance on stuff like the huge doors for the locks.  We also went to the Falls of the Ohio, which is always a good time.

I sure hope this becomes a tradition, but my vote is to get away from Derby Week a bit further because everything (hotels and travel at least) is more expensive, and the marathon Saturday definitely had things tangled up a bit (and the hotel we were in was 100% sold out).  Best part is we only had to miss one day of work (Wednesday) which is awesome.

Thanks again to the band for putting their shows up on Nugs.  We've been enjoying listening them very much, and just listened to night 5 today for the first time.  It's hard to pick a favorite show or moment, but Still Thinkin jumps out to me because it was super fun to hear live finally, and I have always wondered who that song is about (and what they think when they hear it and/or if they can even stand to listen to it).

Next show for us is in Newport for Betsy's birthday and I broke down and got Atlanta tickets for the last two shows of 2025 because why the hell not.  See y'all at the shows!

[Lonndown27]

what a transcendental run