Hem and Over the Rhine at Variety Playhouse, June 3, 2006<\/p>\n
Pictures of the concert are on my Flickr site<\/a><\/p>\n Set list: Detailed review:<\/p>\n Little Five Points is a wacky little part of Atlanta and as I’ve written before, befits Over the Rhine quite well. The last time we saw OtR at the Variety Playhouse during their “Films For Radio” tour, the theatre was pretty sparse, but this time around the theater was quite full and there were even quite a few people sitting up in the balcony.<\/p>\n This tour is with Hem. They aren’t that different from Over the Rhine which made them a pretty good compliment to OtR. Hem was techinically proficient and sounded very nice, but almost all of their songs were about the same tempo and with no percussion section, the songs weren’t driven along by much. On to Over the Rhine’s show. Karin and Linford are currently touring with the smooth drumming Devon Ashley and the multi-talented Rick Plant who swtiched between bass guitar, electric guitar, and an accoustic bass and regular acoustic six string guitar all night.<\/p>\n Latter Days<\/p>\n Karin remarked that if you put HEM and OTR together, you get mother which either means this is going to be a very nuturing tour or one mother of a tour. She said it was more the first than the last.<\/p>\n I Want You To Be My Love Born Looking Foward Linford tells a little story about going to school in Canada and playing piano and remarks how much nicer it is to be playing in front of people instead of in an empty auditorium.<\/p>\n “I think about stuff.” – Linford<\/p>\n Karin said one of Linford’s favorite bass players called him “Smart Parts” Karin said she might adopt that name too and embarrassed herself.<\/p>\n Jesus In New Orleans<\/p>\n I’m On A Roll Linford talked a little bit about the process of writing the song and remarked, “it’s fun to write for a girl.”<\/p>\n Entertaining Thoughts I Don’t Want to Waste Your Time Linford talked about how his father’s church and how they would have prayer meetings and people would raise their hands and say they had an “unspoken request”. He liked that and used it as the title of one of his CD’s. He then played a track from one of his piano CD’s.<\/p>\n Is It Too Late To Start<\/p>\n Little Did I Know Firefly Show Me Trouble Drunkard’s Prayer<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Karin and Linford returned for the encore each with an acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n The Seahorse – Summertime<\/p>\n When I Go —<\/p>\n Karin and Linford return for a second encore<\/p>\n Hush Now (Stella’s Tarantella)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hem and Over the Rhine at Variety Playhouse, June 3, 2006 Pictures of the concert are on my Flickr site Set list: Latter Days I Want You To Be My Love Born Looking Forward Jesus In New Orleans I’m On … Continue reading
\nLatter Days
\nI Want You To Be My Love
\nBorn
\nLooking Forward
\nJesus In New Orleans
\nI’m On A Roll
\nEntertaining Thoughts
\nI Don’t Want To Waste Your Time
\nIs It Too Late To Start?
\nLittle Did I Know
\nFirefly
\nShow Me
\nTrouble
\nDrunkard’s Prayer
\n—
\nThe Seahorse
\nWhen I Go
\n—
\nHush Now<\/p>\n
\nI liked them ok, but after a couple songs, I found myself wondering if they were going to do anything different.<\/p>\n
\n Karin on acoustic. Linford on keys. Rick on acoustic bass. I liked Linford’s background vocals.<\/p>\n
\n Rick on electic guitar. Devon sings background vocals.<\/p>\n
\n Linford plays electric bass.<\/p>\n
\nRick plays an acoustic guitar with a slide while Linford played acoustic guitar. Karin played the little pickler shaker thingy. Karin says they aren’t working through any “heavy crap” this time around, so the next record should be a little lighter. <\/p>\n
\nRick played electric with a slide. Linford and Karin both played acoustic guitar. This song has another false ending ala “Goodbye”, but I like it, it’s bouncy and fun.<\/p>\n
\nThis song was inspired by a comment by Dave (T.D. Juicy) “If you a’int gonna go deep, don’t go at all.” It’s the most poignant of the new songs, just Linford on keys and Karin’s voice.<\/p>\n
\nLong piano solo by Linford in the middle of this song.<\/p>\n
\nKarin on the keys. Linford on bass. Rick on electric guitar. Rick has added a nice little guitar solo to this song. Karin tells us that Rick has a children’s CD out.<\/p>\n
\nKarin on acoustic guitar. Linford on bass. Rick on electric guitar. Devon provides “la la la” background vocals. This tour is really showing off Rick’s strength as an electric guitar player.<\/p>\n
\nI love this song, from the “sexy cocktail hour stubble” lyirc to the cutsey keyboard patch.<\/p>\n
\nRick Plant really takes off here with a long guitar solo.<\/p>\n