Re: **Official Drive-By Truckers Thread**
Anywho, I saw him last night and here were my thoughts I posted on another board.
Really good show, as usual. Hope the High Road, Chaos & Clothes, WMW and Last of My Kind were my favorites of the new stuff in the live setting. Vampires is also a perfect E1 song. First time seeing Amanda with the band as well and she's just wonderful. Also, Cover Me Up may be one of my favorite songs to see live from any artist.
I did have a few gripes though. Anxiety is not a good opener imo. The intro riff is electric but then it's honestly just a boring tune for the most part. It's a 3 minute idea needlessly stretched out to 7 mins. The other thing that is tough is there were just a lot of really great tunes that weren't played, and while that's just par for the course when you're heavily promoting a new album, I wish he didn't totally ignore the pre Southeastern solo output. Even tunes like Codeine and Alabama Pines were absent tonight.
But overall a great time. The 400 Unit is a tight and thunderous band and Jason is always on point with the vocals and his guitar playing.
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Walkin' in my old man shoes with my scientist heart
Got a fever and a beeker and a shot in the dark
I need a Cadillac ride, I need a soft summer night
Say a prayer for my soul seņorita
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