show last night

["r. gockley" <rgockley@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Ohh. I haven't seen OtR in so very, very long. The must come back to
pittsburgh more often, now that i'm officially a resident here, and over
21 to boot.

I managed to convince The Boy (whose name is Nick) to come along (well, in
fact, to drive me there). This was his first intro to OtR, as i have been
derelict in my duty of forcing him to listen to my music.

The location was Moondogs, a small pub just north of the city (in Blawnox,
to be precise). As expected, it was entirely too smokey for my taste, and
my throat is still a little funky from it. The stage was set into a
corner, with the majority of seating in rows in front. The rest of the
seats were off to the side, behind the organ -- the choir, in fact, as
Linford put it. Nick and I were in the choir. (If any other lostees were
there: i was in a black shirt and black skirt with fiery dragons at the
bottom; Nick has long blond hair and was wearing a shiny silver shirt and
black pants...)

Opening acts were... ehn. Stephen Delopoulos was, admittedly, pretty
fabulous on the guitar. Susan Enan was Irish, which made her between-song
comments ever so much more entertaining (i'm a sucker for any form of
british accent), but her music was... nothing special. Nick doesn't care
for the slow music, so i could tell he wasn't particularly enjoying
himself during their acts, which made it all the harder for me to enjoy.
Oh, well.

After the openers, there was a half-hour (!) break. Then OtR took the
stage, and dove right into My Love is a Fever. Oh, wow. Oh, so good. Oh,
it's been too long since i last saw them.

I didn't write down the setlist. Though, from my seat (pretty much
directly behind Linford), i could see Linford's copy clearly (My Love is a
Fever wasn't on it). Being the until-recently-broke-college-student, i
hadn't yet heard Ohio, so many of the songs they played were new to me.
Oldies (at least, pre-Ohio) were Bothered (again i say, "oh, wow"), All I
Need is Everything, and When I Go.

(Nick, by the way, enjoyed OtR. He prefered the faster songs, of course,
but i could tell he was having a good time. Woot!)

Let me take a moment here to mention: Paul. The guitarist for the tour.
One word: Daaaayyyy-aaammmmmn. Amazing guitarist, great falsetto back-up
voice, and adorable to boot. And he does an excellent Linford impression.
Karin and Linford had best hold onto this fellow. (Regarding his falsetto:
I'll admit some amusement when i realized that, on All I Need, he was
singing the same part that Terry used to sing... you know, the part
-above- Karin's part.)

The fact that i lacked both Ohio and Cutting Room Floor has now been
remedied. As has my lack of a girly "wine me, dine me, over the rhine me"
shirt. And i even got a free Ohio poster out of the deal. Woot!

Now, i should probably start doing some work, or something.

love,
rachel
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