LOCATION: Emery Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Ric, Brian
REVIEW BY: Jeff Wisiniewski
It's starting to sound like an addiction support meeting, we all tell our
story and sit back for the next one. Well, my name is Jeff and I was at
Emery...
I showed up at Kaldi's about 4:20. There were only about 10 people there
at that point, but it filled up quickly. I finally met Shelly, who I don't
think sat down the entire time I was there. She seemed to be juggling ten
things at once. It appeared to be through an act of her will that
everything went smoothly, food was bought, the email photo book was
signed, roses were sold, the very few extra tickets were distributed. I
put a lot of faces to names (and on a more superficial level, a lot of
very beautiful faces - how's this for a new slogan "Over The Rhine, the
best looking fans in the world"). People seemed to reccognize me when I
mentioned my email address (toast), I honestly never thought of it as
being all that distinctive until last night.
There was one word that seened to be on everyone's lips, and that word was
"dug". Every ten seconds, you'd here "Is dug here yet?", "I can't wait to
meet dug", "I hope dug gets here soon", the man is a celebrity. A mighty
roar went up when he finally arrived.
I stumbled over to Emery a little after seven, Shelly had warned us that
the show would start at eight and not at seven as advertised on the
tickets. The tiny lobby was jammed eight deep with people trying to buy
merchandise. I think a good deal of money was made. The "Mighty Wurlitzer"
pumped out some tunes until eight.
At eight (with the concessions area still packed) Todd came out and
introduced Peter Mulvey who played an exteremely solid half hour set.
Around nine, Todd introduced Over The Rhine. Here's the setlist:
First set, total time one hour twenty minutes:
(Karin, Linford, Ric, Brian, Chris)
Latter Days
Faithfully Dangerous - Linford reads from a medical text about the heart
Seahorse/Summertime
(+Terri Templeton)
All I Need Is Everything
(-Terri Templeton)
Etcetera Whatever
A Gospel Number
Poughkeepsie
(-Ric and Brian)
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Oxen - a poem read by Karin with piano accompaniment by Linford
Greensleeves
Mary's Waltz
(+Brian and Terri)
Silent Night (duet)
(-Brian)
Amelia's Last
Happy To Be So
(-Terri +Brian, Ric, and Jack Henderson - a six piece band!)
Thank You My Angel
Jack's Valentine - to tumultuous applause
Intermission at which time those of us doing the "rose thing" gathered in
the hall, completely blocking off access to the men's room. It was very
cool, we started as the band was getting ready to start playing. A
seemingly endless line of people streamed down the aisle and into the
orchestra pit piling the piano high with roses.
Second set, total time (including encores) one hour:
Eyes Wide Open - started an ever increasing number of people dancing along
the side aisles
Within Without
Sea and Sky - "This is your last chance" - Karin, refering to the
singalong at the beginning
Iron Curtain
Fly Dance
My Love Is A Fever
Happy with Myself - with the Shelly-led conga line
Daddy Untwisted
Standing ovation, encore one:
If I'm Drowning - with the crowd still standing
Standing ovation, encore two:
I Painted My Name - The only thing I had hoped to receive out of the whole
night was to hear this live one last time. It is one
of the best songs ever written.
I braved the merchandise table, talked to a few people and headed home
(rolled me over the Little Blue River at about 2:15am, I was tempted to
pull over, but kept going).
Overall, a great show. I did see one camcorder running in about the third
row, I don't know if it belonged to someone on the list, but the video
does exist out there (if it did belong to someone here, what do you want
for a copy?). Of course, it would have been cool had the show started at
seven and there were three sets (or if the show had started at six and
there were four, etc) I'm not complaining, I was very happy with what was
presented. I can't help but notice, though, that the show as presented
(two hours twenty minutes) would fit perfectly on a two CD set...