Birmingham - Lyric Theatre - April 7-8-9, 2016

[John A Arkansawyer]

I'm curious about something: Is the Black Lives Matter sign that got a lot of people on the Facebook page all het up on stage there in Birmingham?

(I can't believe I'm missing shows this close to home, but things just didn't line up for it.)

ETA: By looking on the official DBT page, I see the sign was on the stage last night.

[Lurleen McQueen]

Birmingham
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Sinkhole
Uncle Frank
Runaway Train
Women Without Whiskey
Tales Facing Up
Filthy and Fried
Hanging On
Sounds Better in the Song
My Sweet Annette
Ramon Casiano
Ever South
3 Dimes Down
Ronnie and Neil
Made Up English Oceans
What It Means
Love Like This
The Living Bubba
Marry Me
Buttholeville-->
State Trooper
Zip City
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Birthday Boy
18 Wheels of Love
A Ghost to Most
Grand Canyon

I am hoping that since I wasn't in Birmingham last night, that the performance of "Hanging On" and the cover of "State Trooper" were strictly for practice & warm up and will surely make another appearance on Friday or Saturday night. That's my fondest wish. If not, I'll cross fingers for Jackson, MS on 4/29.

[OldCloverdale]

... It was fun hanging with Schlanky, Beaver dam, Bill & Lit dimly & nice meeting old Cloverdale....Seated shows are weird. !

Great to meet you; I agree about the seated show weirdness! I sold my FRONT ROW tickets for tonight but I'm looking forward to tomorrow night.

[OldCloverdale]

... If anyone is looking for a ticket, I have a spare for tonight in the 6th row, center section--selling for face value...

Is this ticket still available? I may be free after all.

[Beaverdam]

We just visited the Nick for an afternoon beer!

[John A Arkansawyer]

If my car wasn't br--I mean, up in Fayetteville waiting to get worked on or crushed into a cube--I'd've ditched the last couple of hours of work and be on the other side of Memphis right now. You folks have a great time, okay?

[Beaverdam]

John a, sorry you won't make it!

[Smitty]

Just checked in at the Hilton - due to a priceline glitch, I paid $22 a night
See y'all shortly.

[John A Arkansawyer]

Just checked in at the Hilton - due to a priceline glitch, I paid $22 a night

I approve of this message!

[uncle rickey]

Shut Up and Get on the Plane
Tornadoes
Primer Coat
Pauline Hawkins
Birthday Boy
Girls Who Smoke
Women Without Whiskey
Sandwiches for the Road
A Ghost to Most
Goode's Field Road
Made Up English Oceans
The Righteous Path
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Play It All Night Long
First Air of Autumn
What It Means
3 Dimes Down
Ronnie and Neil
Ramon Casiano
Ever South
Gravity's Gone
Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
One of These Days
The Company I Keep
Marry Me
Hell No, I Ain't Happy
Encore:
Filthy and Fried
Lookout Mountain
Zip City
People Who Died

[bovine knievel]

Shut Up and Get on the Plane
Tornadoes
Primer Coat
Pauline Hawkins
Birthday Boy
Girls Who Smoke
Women Without Whiskey
Sandwiches for the Road
A Ghost to Most
Goode's Field Road
Made Up English Oceans
The Righteous Path
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Play It All Night Long
First Air of Autumn
What It Means
3 Dimes Down
Ronnie and Neil
Ramon Casiano
Ever South
Gravity's Gone
Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
One of These Days
The Company I Keep
Marry Me
Hell No, I Ain't Happy
Encore:
Filthy and Fried
Lookout Mountain
Zip City
People Who Died

Wow!

[LagoonField]

Loving the set lists. Thanks for posting Uncle Ricky. I'm getting reports from my man on the insde: BeaverDam. He also sent me a picture standing in front of The Nick. Songs that jump out at me from a quick look at the setlists are My Sweet Annette (night #1) and One of these Days (night #2). Epic... Have fun folks on The 3rd Night of your Drinking!! Tim

[gepman]

Wow, two nights, two epic set lists...
How do they top it on night #3??

[Beaverdam]

I can't walk and chew gum at the same time, but last night I watched Jay Gonzalez play guitar, play keyboard, and drink simultaneously!

[brett27295]

Those first two setlists are amazing!

[Tequila Cowboy]

I can't walk and chew gum at the same time, but last night I watched Jay Gonzalez play guitar, play keyboard, and drink simultaneously!

Jay was en fuego. Such a great show and some serious respect to Matt D. for having the sound spot on. I could hear every note from whatever instrument I chose to focus on and last night I spent a lot of time focusing on Jay and Matt Patton who were both incredible. A 30 song Rock Show in a beautiful historic theater with some great people on a crisp April night in Birmingam? Yes please. Can we do it again tonight?

[Beaverdam]

If going to concerts were my job today would be hump day!

[beantownbubba]

Always go to the show.

Damn.

[schlanky]

Is this ticket still available? I may be free after all.

Sorry, OldCloverdale. I was away from internet access late yesterday afternoon and didn't see your message until this morning.

[Smitty]

It was just as amazing as the set list implies. I saw some tapers too.

[grapico]

I still have a pair for tonight. At WILL CALL...Row D.

[uncle rickey]

Lookout Mountain
Shit Shots Count
Road Cases
72 (This Highway's Mean)
The Southern Thing
Women Without Whiskey
Plastic Flowers on the Highway
Hearing Jimmy Loud
Dead, Drunk and Naked-->
Guitar Man Upstairs
Bulldozers and Dirt
First Air of Autumn
The Guns of Umpqua
Ramon Casiano
Ever South
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
The Opening Act
Sounds Better in the Song
Puttin' People on the Moon
Gravity's Gone
Sink Hole
Uncle Frank
Steve McQueen
Marry Me
A World of Hurt
Encore:
Birthday Boy
Let There Be Rock
Zip City
Angels and Fuselage

[John A Arkansawyer]

Lookout Mountain
Shit Shots Count
Road Cases
72 (This Highway's Mean)
The Southern Thing
Women Without Whiskey
Plastic Flowers on the Highway
Hearing Jimmy Loud
Dead, Drunk and Naked-->
Guitar Man Upstairs
Bulldozers and Dirt
First Air of Autumn
The Guns of Umpqua
Ramon Casiano
Ever South
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
The Opening Act
Sounds Better in the Song
Puttin' People on the Moon
Gravity's Gone
Sink Hole
Uncle Frank
Steve McQueen
Marry Me
A World of Hurt
Encore:
Birthday Boy
Let There Be Rock
Zip City
Angels and Fuselage

That is a well-built set. I'd like to have heard The Opening Act electric. And Plastic Flowers--I love that song so much! But I'm a little surprised you all didn't get Surrender Under Protest/Compelled But Not Defeated (the popular title/the title I'd pick--we'll see what Mister Cooley decides) any of those three nights. It bodes well for me hearing it Wednesday.

And now, to top off my weekend, I'm going to go to bed after having puked up lunch, which means missing Brent Best and Kevn Kirby (did I spell that right?) at the White Water. Sigh. I'm just hoping Friday the Thirteenth don't come on a Wednesday next week.

[schlanky]

It's 2:35 a.m. and I just got home from The Nick. With three nights of The Rock Show and hanging out with all the 3DDers, this was one amazing weekend.

I found someone's "Hell No I Ain't Happy" shirt in my car when I got home. I'm guessing it belongs to Bill or litdimly. Whichever of you it is, send me a private message with an address and I can put it in the mail early next week.

[Smitty]

Amazingly special weekend. The DBT's are at the top of their game; don't miss them if they come near ya.

[Beaverdam]

This morning I woke up and a 3/4 full beer from last night at the nick was in the hotel. The Rock and roller in me thought about chugging.....

[Tequila Cowboy]

Smitty has it right. I was commenting last night that it was 10 years ago after a show in Chicago that I said that we had just watched a Rock band at the peak of its powers. As lit dimly correctly pointed out I was dead wrong. They are playing better, right now, two months out from their twentieth Anniversary as a band than I have ever seen them. The are locked in, firing on all cylinders, en fuego or whatever descriptive cliche you choose. So the last two nights we got to see some of our favorite people killing it on stage, spend time with some more of of our favorite people as we attempted to eat Birmingham, and enjoy one of the most beautiful restored theaters I've ever seen. Uh huh. It's fucking great to be alive.

[Tyler]

Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) has now been played more times in the last 3 weeks than in the preceeding 4 years.

[schlanky]

Sitting around the house today recuperating from the weekend, I've had some time for it to sink in just how wonderful this weekend was.

The shows were unbelievable. My show count is way lower than most folks here, but the Friday and Saturday shows were as good as the best shows I've ever seen from DBT. It still amazes me that a band can bring it that hard night after night.

I very much enjoyed seeing CooleyGirl, Uncle Rickey, Tequlia Cowboy, Lurleen McQueen, Smitty & Ladonna, litdimly, pa_heathen & Mr. Heathen, Beaverdam and father-in-law, Bill and Old Cloverdale. It was a treat hanging out with each of you.

Random highlights of the weekend:

Road Cases & Plastic Flowers

The new songs---the next album has a hell of a lot of promise.

The Nick. I hadn't set foot in there in at least a decade. On the drive home, I tried to remember the last band I saw there---pretty sure it was Dick Dale. It was the same old Nick. And both bands we saw were very good.

Sipping beer in the hotel room listening to the banter of people who are long-time friends and just soaking it all in.

Jay closing out Angels and Fuselage on keyboards.

[Beaverdam]

The concerts were great. I'm pretty verbose, but I don't know if I can describe them as eloquently as many of you have on 3DD.

Outside of the concerts getting to meet some of the folks from this site with whom I've talked for years on-line was great, and hanging out and listening to a band at the Nick was among the coolest thing I've ever done.

Cooeygirl, you got some pictures of our group lunch, right? Would you be so kind as to post them on here? I remember my buddy, Tim (Lagoonfield on 3dd) wanted to see some pics, and I failed to take any.

I really enjoyed hanging out with the 3dd crew and felt like I'd known you my whole life, although I just met most of you. At one point, Bryan (my father-in-law) made a comment at the 3dd lunch wondering if some of the regulars from 3DD were going to teach us the secret handshake and said we would probably get initiated into the Drive By Trucker Mafia!!!!

A great, great weekend with some fabulous people!!!! Let's do it again soon!