Ted Leo / Rx Roll Call

[walkman]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  Props go out to the heckler in the back that shouted "more cowbell" to radio 4.  that was spot on.

thankee, thankee - I was actually hoping he'd let me play it.
 
 by the way, I thought it was a great show.  Radio 4 were much better in the front, with dancing.

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Was 'Dave Everly' successfully located?

I thought that guy was saying "play beverly" [/b]

those asses were right behind me. definately dave everly. good show, hot as hell.

[brennser]

good show, although as people have noted it was very hot and by the end I felt tired and middle aged
 
 having never heard them before I quite liked radio 4 - I probably caught the last 20 mins of their set
 
 this was my third time seeing ted leo in a month - good show - the drummer seemed to be having issues but the new songs sound better and better each time I hear them and this show 'rocked' the most of the three (does anyone know what the last song was before the encores?)

[poorlulu]

Originally posted by brennser:
  (does anyone know what the last song was before the encores?)

we told you last night what it was........
 
 http://www.lyricsstyle.com/s/stifflittlefingers/suspectdevice.html
 
 do you know who u2 are?  how about the corrs?  they're irish you know.............

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

that was a great show!  And the hecklers in the back must have been real assholes... the Washington Post even mentioned them (and described them as "Moronic") in its review today:
 
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10508-2004Jul23.html
 
 Luckily from up front where I was from you couldn't hear them at all.   Just days earlier the Post had run a great article against Concert Fools:
 
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63181-2004Jul19.html
 
 Anyway, great show!
 
 http://www.alex.to/doomlink

[walkman]

from where I was in the very front (near Doom?) I also missed the whole heckler thing.  plus it was cooler, what with the AC in the ceiling.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

ahh, I know where you were Walkie, fron and center there's a delightful cool blast of air that hits an area of about 5'x5' if you're lucky enough to be there.     I had no such luck, I was off to the side... I could see Ted Leo and his bass player (who looked like he was in some kind of zen trance) but not the drummer.  At times it sounded like there were two guitarists, but that was just Leo's nimble fingerwork....

[Bags]

MUSIC
 Saturday, July 24, 2004; Page C05
 
 Ted Leo at the Black Cat
 
 The hottest club in town Thursday night, literally, had to be the Black Cat. Maybe there was a problem with the air conditioning, or maybe it was just the enthusiasm of a capacity crowd for smart-guy rocker Ted Leo and his (for now) two-piece band, the Pharmacists. Whatever the cause, it was a sticky, sweaty and awfully smoky affair. (How is it, by the way, that a smart-guy rocker can have so many young fans who smoke?)
 
 A hardcore and indie-rock veteran who used to call Washington home, Leo has broken out in the past few years with a couple of fine CDs: last year's "Hearts of Oak" and 2001's "The Tyranny of Distance." During a set that lasted a bit more than an hour, he and his band mates, bassist Dave Lerner and drummer Chris Wilson, tackled older material as well as songs from an album to be released this fall.
 
 Tackled is probably the appropriate word, as there is a real physicality to Leo's slashing, jarring style. It borrows from the herky-jerky delivery of the Jam, the freewheeling spirit of the Who and the Clash's unbridled political fury. When he sings, Leo's face contorts as if he's stuck in a wind tunnel, and his voice is a plaintive yowl that reminds you of Joe Jackson's earliest days. It's a style that does justice to such lyrics as "It's times like this when a neck looks for a knife," from "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?" Later Leo ended one song by singing the words "It's all right" about 100 times. That might sound like a colossal bore, but there was a real majesty to the moment.
 
 A couple of moronic hecklers did their best to ruin the show from the back of the crowded room, but thankfully Leo either didn't hear them or ignored them. Maybe they weren't feeling his songs. Maybe it was just the heat.
 
 -- Joe Heim