Trey at NIU - 11/04/2005
Trey covering After Midnight by J.J. Cale, later Eric Clapton.
So during the Trey show at NIU last Friday, right towards the beginning of the show Trey leaned down to talk to someone in the front row, and popped back up a second later and went to the mic :
“We have a special guest here with us in the front row, Joey, who’s three years old and it’s his first show?….
… second show. Everybody give Joey a little round of applause. Well Joey, I wish I knew how to play the Dylan song called Joey, but I don’t and I feel like playing a cover. Soooo…. let’s do some Clapton…. how about After Midnight, and ten years down the road you can listen to this show and know this song was dedicated to you.”
So Trey does an incredibly good cover of After Midnight for like 20 minutes, and afterwards a “Joey” chant starts echoing throughout the crowd. It erupts into a huge chant for like 3 minutes which Trey joins in on and the father finally turns around and holds up this little three year-old kid, and he’s pumping his fists and has a big dumb grin on his face because he hears everyone chanting his name and looking at him. Probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen at a concert.
SETLIST:
Mr. Completely
Shine
Drifting
Dark and Down
After Midnight (J.J. Cale)
Spin >
Sweet Dreams Melinda
Waves@
Never@
Love That Breaks All Lines@
Pebbles and Marbles@*
Money, Love and Change
Wherever You Find It
Tuesday
Low
E: Come As Melody
Trey Solo Acoustic
*: preceded by a “Pusherman” (Curtis Mayfield) tease.
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December 10th, 2005 at 8:03 am
[...] This was a comment I left on LiveMusicBlog.com in response to an article written on Trey Anastasio’s current touring gig, 70 Volt Parade. There’s been a whole lot of debate on JamBase.com in the article’s comments about what Trey’s post-Phish experience is like, and they’re very divided between the positive and negative. Anyways, here’s my thoughts: I’ve read that review over and over about 6 times now, and the guy seems liking he’s ripping on Trey for the sake of ripping on Trey. I’ve seen Trey once with his solo band in 2002, both Alpine Phish shows in 2004, Three times at Vegoose (Trey, Dave & Friends, Widespread), and most recently at the Dekalb NIU show with 70 Volt Parade. The only time I’ve ever felt he was off was when he seemed hammered at Alpine (but then again so was I) and during his acoustic set at Vegoose, which dragged a little for me despite the incredible “Waste” with Jen Hartswick. His show at NIU - which I was proud to take my 14yr old sister to as her first show - had all the energy I expected from Trey, a great synergy with the crowd, and a good selection of tracks. Frankly I thought Shine was a great record, and it was probably because I went into it expecting something short, sweet, and to the point; I don’t see how you could think it would be anything other than that after seeing Farmhouse, Round Room, and Undermind. If you can get a copy of his Vegoose show and listen to what he says to the crowd during the solo acoustic set I think people would really appreciate what he’s doing more, I mean the man nearly started crying on stage. Anyways, as much as I would love to see Phish again considering I never saw any of the 90’s shows, this is what the guys doing now, people need to stop and realize it’s not supposed to be the same stuff Phish did. [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
I’m Joey’s dad from the 11/04/05 NIU show searching for a recording of the show any help?