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Night One: “The Rat”

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Just a few notes from last night: The Dig were amazing. The bass lines on all of their songs just were, again, amazing. Pure rock n’ roll. Here We Go Magic were without their drummer and as a result they had to rely on looped guitar effects and spacey keyboards. Of course, “Fangela” and “Tunnelvision” were the most recognizable highlights. As witnessed in the video above the Walkmen played their most all-time most popular song “The Rat” followed by “In The New Year,” their hit from 2008’s You and Me. They also performed “Canadian Girl,” “Four Provinces,” “On The Water,” “Postcards From Tiny Islands,” and “Red Moon” off of You and Me. Of course a four piece horns section contributed to a few of those songs and it was awesome! They might have played “Little House of Savages,” but I honestly can’t remember! They played a three song encore. The last song of the night? What else but a 9 piece rendition of “Louisiana”! That would make Chris happy if they did that again. I just want to say that Hamilton Leithauser is the man. I’ve always thought of him that way, but you gotta see this guy live! He was pounding shit out like crazy and he’s always got that look like he is pissed, but he really isn’t.

Can’t wait until tonight!

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Hopes For Tonight + Tommorow

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I have the privilege (or rather the money) to see the Walkmen two nights in a row at the Middle East Downstairs (voted my favorite all-time music venue). I don’t have a lot of expectations, but I do have some hopes:

I hope for the Walkmen to play the following songs:
– You and Me in its entirety
– “We’ve Been Had” and the “Crimps” off The Walkmen
– “Red River”
– The first eight tracks off Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
 – “Yellow Kid” and “I’m Your Son” covers
– Their four Leonard Cohen covers!
– Bows and Arrows in its entirety

Okay so what’s going to probably end up happening is this: they play at least half of You and Me, “Lost in Boston” for sure, no covers, a new one or two, and a select few tracks off their other albums, including a couple that I’ve never extensively listened to before. Whatever they do (somewhere between 10 and 20 songs for sure) I won’t be complaining!

My other hope is for front row both nights. I can make some adjustments if I don’t get front row tonight (aka get there earlier tommorow night), but as always it is more desirable that way. I anticipate a pretty big crowd both nights.