Chevelle 9/27/11

Chevelle 11

Three bands that you like for the price of one is always cool, even if it hard to understand how these particular three bands ended up sharing the same bill. Bob and Tom felt the same way so they came along for the ride.

Since the time I had last seen Filter about three and a half years before this at the Casbah they had released two new albums: Anthems for the Damned and The Trouble with Angels. These albums are decent and have grown on me over time but to me just do not hold a candle to the first three Filter albums. Unfortunately I feel that Filter’s performance also fell into the “decent” category for this show. The posturing shirtless bassist was distracting but even outside of that something was just not clicking the way I had seen Filter click in the past.

I had not seen Bush for almost 12 years so this was interesting. Since that time they had only released two albums including the newest album The Sea of Memories that had just been released two weeks before this show. I had not really kept up with Bush over the years or heard anything from the two newest albums. This made it that much better when they came out and rocked the fuck out of the place. At one point Gavin came out into the crowd and got on top of the side bar like he was auditioning to work at Coyote Ugly.

SETLIST: The Mirror of the Signs, Little Things, I Believe In You, Greedy Fly, The Sound of Winter, Everything Zen, The Chemicals Between Us, The Heart of the Matter, The People That We Love, All Night Doctors, Swallowed, The Afterlife, Machinehead, Come Together, Glycerine, Comedown

Apparently without realizing it I got on the every two year plan for Chevelle as I literally saw them every two years since 2003 with the last time being the drunken debacle at the House of Blues in 2009. These guys are road warriors. Despite being a little over two months before the release of Hats Off to the Bull we got to hear “Face to the Floor” for the first time. The highlight of the show and one of the coolest things I have ever seen at a concert was when a speaker house left literally caught fire and burned for a good 45 seconds before being extinguished. Fittingly enough this happened when they were playing “An Evening With El Diablo” but the best part is that they just kept playing without missing a beat. To be fair they may not have known the speaker caught fire but I like to at least pretend they did and just kept going.

SETLIST: Family System, Jars, Get Some, Letter From a Thief, Vitamin R (Leading Us Along), Face to the Floor, Sleep Apnea, Send the Pain Below, An Evening With El Diablo, The Red, The Clincher, I Get It

 

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