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Originally posted by Malax

I may have missed something, but he seems to play very few songs off the albums now. Just 13 songs out of the 28? are off the albums 2 of which are covers. Hmmm, anyone have any idea why.

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Originally posted by ladronic

I went to both the in-store acoustic performance and the show at the social last night in Orlando. First off, here are the setlists:

3/12/03 Park Ave. Records In-Store

(not in order)

Crackity Jones
Mr. Grieves
Holiday Song
Manitoba
Goodbye Lorraine (minus last verse)
New House Of The Pope
Humboldt County Massacre (1 verse)
Bullet
How You Went So Far
Cold Heart Of Stone
Whiskey In Your Shoes
Los Angeles
Robert Onion


3/12/03 The Social

(in order)

The Snake (new song?)
Hermaphroditos
I Want Rock n' Roll
Gouge Away
Crackity Jones
'hills of central france/ the sign i'm looking for..'
Black Letter Day
How You Went So Far
Cactus
Whiskey In Your Shoes
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Southbound Bevy
Bullet
Jane, The Queen Of Love
The New House Of the Pope
Mr. Grieves
Headache
Robert Onion
Horrible Day
Goodbye Lorraine
Nimrod's Son
Six Sixty-Six
Black Rider
Nadine
Sister Isabel
John The Revelator
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Where Is My Mind
California Bound


It was my first Frank Black & The Catholics show, and I was dutifuly impressed. Frank was very talkative during the in-store appearance, chatting constantly about random topics, even in the middle of songs. References included: Arlo Guthrie, Six Million Dollar Man, R.E.M., Tivo, Mr. Show, C#Cm, spilling salsa on his shirt earlier in the day but it being okay because he wiped it off with beer, and the ever popular topic of forgetting songs. When someone requested 'Humboldt' he said that he would try it, but that he didn't think he could remember it, sure enough, he couldn't get past the first verse. Very nice nonetheless, he said that he would talk with the band after the in-store to try to remember it, which kinda made me think he would play it at the Social, but he didn't. Also, he forgot the last verse to 'Goodbye Lorraine' and said that he should know it seeing how he's been playing it at the past 10 or so shows, but that he couldn't remember it. A little bit of crowd interaction, with Frank saying at different times that the crowd asked for really hard songs for requests, and also that he was going to play something we would actually know (after playing a few new songs) before he launched into 'Los Angeles'. I was glad that he played a few different songs at the acoustic show than he did later on that night, the only thing that was regrettable was that I couldn't be any closer, as all I could really see was the top of his head. Oh well. A brilliant way to begin the night.

After this, some of my friends stayed to meet Frank and get pictures and autographs and such, and some of us, including myself, headed out to the social to get good positioning for the show. The ones who stayed mentioned that Frank was really nice, and they were able to get a few things signed and a few pictures. So, at the Social we had to wait quite a bit, and then finally David Lovering came on stage. Very amusing, thought it lost energy and a bit of my interest towards the end. Basically, he did a few science experiments type things, though it seemed more like a magic show to me. First he tried to make us blow out some candle, but we couldn't, and then he blew it out with some air vortex toy from the 70's that Blammo made. After this, he busted out his air cannon vortex, which consisted of a drum cylinder with a hole in one side and foil and stuff in the other, which he put smoke into and shot pretty damn big smoke rings out of accross the club. The most impressive part, in my opinion. After this he showed the conductivity of a pickles and made them glow. Then he had some meteorite from China or something which was supposed to have magical energy or something and he did lame things with that. When he was waiting for one of his instruments to warm up, he initiated a short 'Pixies Q & A' with the crowd, the highlight of which for me was him doing a 'La-La Love You' "YEAH".

Soon after this the Catholics, and then Frank Black took the stage. It was amazing. I was totally unprepared for the madness that is Rich. He was completely amazing and even mesmerizing at times. I had never heard of the first song "The Snake", so I assume that it's a new one. Something like "I am the snake..." in the chorus. It was pretty good, but not immediately catching, but it was a bit hard to hear it at first, I think it took my ears about two songs to adjust to the loudness since I was pretty close. I'm kind of at a loss about what to say about the show, seeing how impressed I was, I think it's still settling in my mind, about the only thing that was slightly dissapointing was "Monkey Gone To Heaven", but eh. Of the Pixies tunes, I thought "Nimrod's Son" was the most impressive... The crowd seemed to be most into "Headache" and "Where Is My Mind?" .. with us doing the "ooooh oooh" during the extended intro and outro. "I Want Rock n' Roll" also stands out a bit, because I thought it fit the live very nicely, and sounded much better than on "Pistolero", especially with Rich's insane guitar work. Frank and the rest of the band were amazing, but Rich was by far the highlight, he was a fucking madman, and his solos were just awe-inspiring. To those going to future shows, I suggest going to the FTP server and downloading the live mp3s of 'Manitoba', 'John The Revelator', 'There Goes Nadine', and 'Horrible Day', as I did, as I found that me being familiar with the songs made the experience that much more enjoyable, than my friends who weren't familiar with them or some of the FB solo material. Okay, well that's enough rambling, I hope this was of some interest to someone.

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