Reports from Chicago Sunday Show???

[Bigsky]

I am slowly dying in anticipation...  ::)

[Sassbox]

Thus far, I've received a pic of Jim and a text that simply said "Run Thru!!!"

[fitzcarraldo]

BH is in the house! Get Down Brown!

[kydiddle]

Thus far, I've received a pic of Jim and a text that simply said "Run Thru!!!"

What we do without your friend's text messages??

[Sassbox]

With all the newfangled technology, I'm surprised we're not able to get a running setlist!

[ultravisitor]

I live pretty close to the theater, and I just got home.

My prayers for "Steam Engine" were answered with an extended version with a guitar -- not drum -- solo.  Seriously, it is the best I've ever heard of the song.

"Run Thru" was amazing.

"At Dawn" was the opener.

This night was lighter on Evil Urges songs.

We also got "I Think I'm Going To Hell".

The poster for tonight's show was different, but similar, to the poster for last night's show.  I may take a pic and upload it another time.

I love this band, but damn.  Two two-and-a-half hour shows in a row is exhausting.

[ultravisitor]

With all the newfangled technology, I'm surprised we're not able to get a running setlist!

Actually, I had my BlackBerry with me and was using it to take pics and upload them to my Facebook account during the show.

I tried to log into the boards so I could give you guys the set list in real time, but the browser wasn't letting me log in and post for some reason.  I still have to figure it out.  It's the new Storm and I've only had it for five days.

[ChronicHunger]

God damn they opened with At Dawn? i would"ev lost it please tell me they didnt play strangulation too????

[ultravisitor]

Yep.  As soon as they started with "At Dawn", I knew we were in for a good night.  They've only opened with that at one other show I've seen of theirs (back in 2006), and it certainly sets a great tone for the rest of the night.  To me, tonight's show was better than last night's in every way.

Unless I'm totally forgetting, we didn't get "Strangulation".  We did, though, get "Sooner", which I always like hearing live.

[Dillsnufus]

They'll probably play strangulation at nye. if so I'll defintely take a video with my camera.  

[blenderbaby]

A mention for Billy, that guy was soooo into his playing tonight ;)

[xmascriminal]

So you got Steam Engine, Sooner and I Think I'm Going to Hell? Fuck my life.

[Sassbox]

Wow!  I listened to Sooner today.  I don't think I've heard it live since ACL 2007.

Glad y'all got another great show!

[ultravisitor]

Yep.  Plus the "At Dawn" opener.  Like I said, tonight's show was better than last night's in every way.  It was my favorite of the six times I've seen them.

They closed with "One Big Holiday", and the band's energy level was so high it seemed as though they were still at the start of the set.

Only six songs from Evil Urges if I recall correctly: "Evil Urges",  "Thank You Too!", "Remnants", "Highly Suspicious", "Smokin' from Shootin'", "Touch Me...Pt. 2".  Oh wait, "Look at You" was the first song of the encore.  It was Jim on stage alone with his guitar.

[blenderbaby]

Jeez, how DO you guys REMEMBER the set lists??.  Great show tonight, no Dondante, but a helluva "Run Thru" made up for it, and as god is my witness, the last cord of the night at the end of OBH literally burst my left ear drum.. I have a medical condition which made the concert one pain filled ordeal (i will spare you the gory details), plus annoying people right in front of me CONSTANTLY yapping, and the fact that alcohol, drugs, and teenagers is an annoying mix..............................besides all that  the boys gave us a fantastic show, roll on NYE :D

[blenderbaby]

...oh, and "Steam Engine" was awesome, and last but not least, Jim is looking lean and mean after his little Holiday 8-)

[ultravisitor]

Jeez, how DO you guys REMEMBER the set lists??.  Great show tonight, no Dondante, but a helluva "Run Thru" made up for it

I was using my BlackBerry to keep notes of the set list, but stopped doing it once we got to the encore.

When we got "Steam Engine" with the extended (AWESOME!) guitar solo, I knew we wouldn't get "Dondante".  Seriously, tonight's "Steam Engine" was incredible -- better than the last time I saw them do it with Andrew Bird at Taste of Chicago.  I hope someone taped it.

[blenderbaby]

i was going to keep track of the setlist, but i dropped my pencil :-[

[Ive got an EVIL plan babe]

At Dawn!  I will sing you songs!  Sooner (jim on Omnicord)!  I think I'm going to Hell!  Nashville to Kentucky (carl on sax)!  Lowdown, laylow, it beats 4 U, wordless chorus, Cobra!, golden, gideon, off the record.  In no particular order along with the other songs already cited.  I would have died if I heard strangulation tonight.

[Ive got an EVIL plan babe]

what a wonderful man.  And banter about the Chicago Theater architecture looking like the inside of a brain.