7 thoughts on “Chicago, Pt II”

  1. Thanks, Barry!

    Here’s what Mike Keneally wrote about this particular show:

    “Very good set, very good audience – people went nuts. (…) The energy on stage was very high, the energy in the audience was also, it was a great show. First encore was “Yo Cats,” which Ike forgot a number of the words to so I walked over and sang some of the lines into his microphone – it was all in fun and everybody had a good time with it – and “Packard Goose” ended that encore. And we went away and came back and the scheduled second encore was to be “Penguin” and “Green Hotel,” but instead we did “Jesus Thinks You’re A Jerk” and “The Illinois Enema Bandit.” Let’s see, during “Enema Bandit” I went up on the horn riser and grabbed a soprano sax; Paul had got this enema bag that somebody had thrown up on the stage, and we went down to Ike, I was on Ike’s left playing the soprano sax with great intensity and artistic aplomb and absolutely no ability, and Paul was on Ike’s right doing enema bag business. Then we went away; there was a scheduled third encore of “Orange County”, but it was late, we would have had serious union trouble if we’d hung around, so we went away.

    The two shows in Chicago were, I think, the best we’ve been in one city. We might have done better shows than either of them – for instance the last show in Detroit was quite wonderful, and the second show in New York City still stands in my mind as a particularly good show – but as far as just being across-the-board always good in one city, Chicago got the best we’ve had to offer so far. Sting didn’t hurt either.”

    http://www.keneally.com/198835.html

  5. Errh sorry to have to tell you Balint: my bandwidth was once again going through the roof (it was a rather heavy download this time), so as much I hate doing it, I had to put the boot offline. Safest practice: download the boot as soon as I make it available, don’t wait til the weekend is over…

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