Sure there is a thread for this somewhere, too lazy to look. Anyway, for me it was my first Dirt Underneath show in a TINY room out on Long Island. Just a real special night. With Spooner in tow. A great moment during "Daddy Needs A Drink", which was brand new at the time, there were some chatty people by the bar. Hate that. Anyway right as I was about to tell them to shut the @#k up Patterson beat me to it. And it worked. Check out the tape on the LMA. Great show.
7/18/07 Stephen's Talkhouse Amagansett, NY
Shut Up and Get On The Plane My Sweet Annette Tales Facing Up Lisa's Birthday The Home Front Where The Devil Don't Stay Play It All Night Long Love Like This Daddy Needs A Drink A Ghost To Most The Opening Act Gravity's Gone Heathens Zip City Let There Be Rock A World Of Hurt Women Without Whiskey The Living Bubba
With this monster a close second. Last time I saw Jason with the band.
9/21/06 Webster Hall New York, NY
Lookout Mountain Daddy's Cup The Day John Henry Died Feb. 14 Women Without Whiskey The Living Bubba Easy On Yourself Aftermath USA Love Like This Sink Hole Goddamn Lonely Love 18 Wheels Of Love Marry Me A Blessing and A Curse Moonlight Mile The Night G.G. Allin Came To Town Gravity's Gone Never Gonna Change Puttin' People On The Moon Dress Blues Zip City A World Of Hurt Let There Be Rock Outfit Shut Up and Get On The Plane Buttholeville People Who Died
My favorite is the 2nd night of their 2004-05 New Year's run. It was the first of the four New Year's runs I've seen them do so far. ETA: I just realized we got all of The Dirty South that night.
1/1/05 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
Where The Devil Don't Stay The Buford Stick (Something's Got To) Give Pretty Soon Danko/Manuel Lookout Mountain Carl Perkins' Cadillac Cottonseed The Boys From Alabama The Day John Henry Died Goddamn Lonely Love Bulldozers and Dirt Tales Facing Up Marry Me My Sweet Annette Nine Bullets Puttin' People On The Moon One Of These Days Outfit Sink Hole Daddy's Cup The Living Bubba Grandaddy Tornadoes Decoration Day Women Without Whiskey Road Cases Let There Be Rock These Arms Of Mine (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay Sands Of Iwo Jima Zip City Never Gonna Change Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love People Who Died Angels and Fuselage
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you'll know that you're dreaming
Date: 2004-10-30 Venue: The Metro City: Chicago 1. Where The Devil Don't Stay 2. Tornadoes 3. Marry Me 4. Cottonseed 5. The Boys From Alabama 6. Goddamn Lonely Love 7. Decoration Day 8. Lookout Mountain 9. Women Without Whiskey 10. Daddy's Cup 11. The Living Bubba 12. Sands Of Iwo Jima 13. Never Gonna Change 14. The Company I Keep 15. Sink Hole 16. When The Pin Hits The Shell 17. Puttin' People On The Moon 18. Grandaddy 19. Heathens 20. Guitar Man Upstairs 21. Zip City 22. Outfit 23. Bulldozers and Dirt 24. Wallace 25. Hell No, I Ain't Happy 26. I'm Eighteen 27. Danko/Manuel 28. Shut Up and Get On The Plane 29. Let There Be Rock 30. People Who Died
My favorite crowd and atmosphere was this:
Date: 2005-5-18 Venue: Shank Hall City: Milwaukee 1. Puttin' People On The Moon 2. One Of These Days 3. Never Gonna Change 4. The Deeper In 5. Sink Hole 6. Panties In Your Purse 7. Carl Perkins' Cadillac 8. The Buford Stick 9. Danko/Manuel 10. Goddamn Lonely Love 11. Sands Of Iwo Jima 12. Daddy's Cup 13. The Company I Keep 14. Life In The Factory 15. Decoration Day 16. Do It Yourself 17. Marry Me 18. Ronnie and Neil 19. Outfit 20. Lookout Mountain 21. Box Of Spiders 22. Where The Devil Don't Stay 23. Let Me Roll It 24. Let There Be Rock 25. Buttholeville
The Dirt Underneath tour hands down because it was such a unique format.
Date: 2007-5-07 Venue: Great American Music Hall City: San Francisco State/Country: CA
1. Bulldozers and Dirt 2. A Ghost To Most 3. Heathens 4. Nine Bullets 5. Checkout Time In Vegas 6. After The Scene Dies 7. Bob 8. Daddy Needs A Drink 9. Two Daughters and A Beautiful Wife 10. Panties In Your Purse 11. Tales Facing Up 12. My Sweet Annette 13. One Of These Days 14. The Living Bubba 15. Sink Hole 16. When The Pin Hits The Shell 17. Puttin' People On The Moon 18. Zip City 19. George Jones' Talking Cell Phone Blues 20. Gravity's Gone 21. A World Of Hurt 22. Buttholeville 23. State Trooper 24. Buttholeville (reprise)
“Excited people get on daddy’s nerves.” - M. Cooley
Although I have seen plenty of great ones since then for some reason Bonnaroo 2003 always comes to mind. 2005 Bonnaroo was also great and maybe even better. Especially coming after the previous night in Huntsville when it seemed like everybody was still up. Two rock shows in 24 hours though. Check out my recording of 2003 from the roo. Patterson's intro to outfit is hilarious and the opening two songs are incredible.
01. intro 02. Lookout Mountain 03. The Living Bubba 04. Do It Yourself 05. Where The Devil Don't Stay 06. Sink Hole 07. Outfit 08. Marry Me 09. Hell No, I Ain't Happy 10. Decoration Day 11. Zip City 12. Let There Be Rock 13. People Who Died
my 2nd DBT show, first in a club setting. Changed my life. The Moaners opened
8/21/04 Tipitina's, New Orleans partial setlist, I found on traders database (pretty sure they opened with Sinkhole:
Set I Decoration Day GD Lonely Love The Living Bubba Cottonseed Tornados 18 Wheels Of Love Panties In Your Purse Wait For The Midnight Hour (Jason and Patterson sang) Zip City Let There Be Rock Encore Back of a Bible My Sweet Annette Day John Henry Died Carl Perkins Cadillac Company I Keep Steve McQueen Get On The Plane
review I wrote on my livejournal account back then:
August 21st, Tipitina's, New Orleans. me and Daniell got there early and got right against the guardrail in front of the stage. I was tired from a wild, hard-drinking day in New Orleans, and before the Moaners impressed me with their great opening set, I didn't know if I would be able to make it through the whole performance without passing out. I was right in front of Cooley, and I was almost dehydrated but i kept rocking, killed myself giving off energy in that show, because I felt like that's what they deserved. They had given me so much more than I ever deserved, and I feel like the least I can do is show them I love their music .. they totally blew my mind... 4 hours of just great Rock. All the way to their closing number of "Steve McQueen", they had me and that whole crowd in the palm of their hand. And like Ecampbell said, it was the greatest musical moment of my life. They make you tear up during "the Living Bubba", "Sounds Better in a Song" and "Something's Gotta Give Pretty Soon", you can smell the Jack Daniels in "Women Without Whiskey", laugh your ass off during "18 Wheels of Love", bang your head to "Lookout Mountain", "where the devil don't stay", and "Let There Be Rock", grint your teeth and get pissed off during "Puttin People On the Moon" and you can't do anything but smile during "Carl Perkin's Cadillac" and "The Day John Henry Died". Once again, after the show, walking miles and miles back to the trolley and waiting their until almost sunrise, I didn't have anything on my mind but what I had just saw, and the fact that their new album came out in 4 days, and I would given the two-hundred or so dollars in my pocket to have been listening to it at that moment,and then tuesday came around...
and the Dirty South blew me away again. Top to bottom, fourteen songs that I can't find a single flaw with. I thought Decoration Day, Alabama Ass Whuppin', and SRO could never be topped, but I may be wrong. Time will tell. This is one of those albums that I want to buy an extra 2 or 3 copies of to put up in storage in case something where to happen to it, cause I can tell 20 years from now I'll still wanna hear it and it will still be relevant. While I loved every track on both DD and SRO, they both had ones I couldn't listen to at any time, namely Rob Malone's tunes and "Careless", and I've grown to love Careless, but at first it was a skipper. But on the Dirty South, there's not a song on here I was completely captivated by on the first listen. But I did notice something small - in the studio, Jason Isbell's songs come out the best, better than they do live, and don't get me wrong, they're still great live, but they sound better on CD, and Patterson's songs sound better live, because of the feeling he puts into them. While you can definately hear the anger of "Puttin People on the Moon" on the album, it definately lacks the attitude he puts into it live... Patterson's one of those people's whose intensity just can't be captured. He's lightning, but it's not in bottle. And I feel bad even saying that, cause it sounds like I'm critizing them, and that's the last thing I want to do. This album will probably turn out to be my all time favorite album. It's as perfect as I could ask for. I'm just blessed to have seen them live, and felt what true music is and always has been about. They are no doubt the greatest band in America today, and while I may be a little biased, being from North Alabama and relating to them like I do, hell they're the only band I can relate to nowadays. Beer-drinking, rough-looking Alabamians like them and myself shouldn't be so smart. They have the balls to say things no other band or singer-songwriter today can say, and it's convincing because it's so honest. They're just great. They've already helped me through some hard times, and where the soundtrack to the greatest times of my life, and I know without a doubt they'll be a big factor on getting me through this down-time, cause they've been through the same thing only worse, ten-fold. I just want to meet them again like I did in Birmingham, and then again in New Orleans, so I can thank them for giving hundreds (maybe thousands) of people faith in Rock again, and for representing people like me, who don't have a voice in anything anymore, we're so removed from the rest of the country. Keep on fucking rocking, and I'll make sure that whatever happens, I'll do a whole lot more crazy shit, and I won't be sorry for a goddamn thing.
Don't have a setlist and never could find a recording of the show, but this show has always stuck out in my mind as one of the best I've ever attended by any band. Saw them the previous night in Knoxville and that was one of the few times I've ever left a DBT show feeling less than satisfied. Seemed like the crowd wasn't into the show and the encore was cut short by some moron throwing a bottle on stage and narrowly missing Patterson. I almost didn't make the trip the next night to Louisville, but I'm so glad I did.
First, this show was memorable because I got to sit in for soundcheck and get Cooley to autograph this awesome painting a friend of mine did:
Secondly, the actual show was a burner from start to finish. I know some newer fans probably think people exaggerate about the 3-3.5 hour shows DBT played back in the day, but this one was at least 3 hours, maybe longer. Band was in much better spirits than the previous night and I think they were really enjoying the fact that this was by far the biggest crowd they'd played to at Headliners. We were right on the rail in front of Cooley all night and he was on fire. Allison Moorer and her awesome band, including Dan Baird, played a great opening set and then she came out to sing with DBT on Let Me Roll It and Angels and Fuselage (I think).
I can't really give a tangible reason why this show was better than the 40+ others, but I know that almost 8 years later, this show still stands out among all the others.
The Pine Hill Farm shows in Durham in 2001 and 2002, respectively, the first one especially. In fact, that first one usually comes in second in my list of favorite concerts ever with my first R.E.M. concert (which took place at Duke in '86) taking the top slot. I posted some photographs from the first Pine Hill Farm show in the photos section of the board.
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:The Pine Hill Farm shows in Durham in 2001 and 2002, respectively, the first one especially. In fact, that first one usually comes in second in my list of favorite concerts ever with my first R.E.M. concert (which took place at Duke in '86) taking the top slot. I posted some photographs from the first Pine Hill Farm show in the photos section of the board.
"Oh, there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out they ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano! Rocky Marciano! Let me tell you something, once and for all--Rocky Marciano was good; but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit."
Smitty wrote:That was only about two weeks after my fav show. That TDS era DBT was beyond words.
It really was. First show was in '03, which was good. But the next two times they visited Chicago in '04 they played 35 songs and 30 songs respectively. They were sweaty, beer guzzling, voice losing, tests of endurance. And although I love the new songs and their crisp sound now, nothing will beat the nostalgia of the '04 and '05 days in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, and Minneapolis. DBT played with such a reckless abandon, like a freight train headed for a brick wall.
The 5/6/06 show at the Fillmore SF was pretty awesome. Jason & Neff both made that tour. Both nights of the Dirt Underneath at the Great American were special, the 2nd night was my all time favorite show EVER.5/8/07. the 2 Sold Out shows at the Fillmore in 2011 were prety incredible also. As always, can't wait for the next DBT show, who knows, it may top my list.
take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got...it's great to be alive!
Glad I'm not the only one around here who suffers from brain farts like that!!
As for best shows, how about last summer's show at the Brooklyn Bowl?!! They sold the place out in like two weeks, then went in and killed it. From opening up with Southern Thing (in nyc of all places!!) to closing with People Who Died, with Patterson ripping his shirt open, stage divers, and a flying Damon. That show was great.
The Richmond Halloween shows were damn hard to beat. 10 29 and 10 30 10. Generated my favorite Cooley quote, which I can't accurately quote right now and not sure which night it was, but it went something along the lines of how he loves Halloween, "we get to dress like cops and all the girls get to dress like dirty whores. The only night of the year we all get to act Catholic"
In the late 90s, my brother and his then-future wife used to live about one door down from Webster Hall in an apt that couldn't have been more than, shit, I don't know, 400 square feet. Would have loved to have seen that show.
RMD wrote:... With this monster a close second. Last time I saw Jason with the band.
9/21/06 Webster Hall New York, NY
Lookout Mountain Daddy's Cup The Day John Henry Died Feb. 14 Women Without Whiskey The Living Bubba Easy On Yourself Aftermath USA Love Like This Sink Hole Goddamn Lonely Love 18 Wheels Of Love Marry Me A Blessing and A Curse Moonlight Mile The Night G.G. Allin Came To Town Gravity's Gone Never Gonna Change Puttin' People On The Moon Dress Blues Zip City A World Of Hurt Let There Be Rock Outfit Shut Up and Get On The Plane Buttholeville People Who Died
Check out the tape on the LMA. Great show.
