2012-11-26 - Highline Ballroom, New York, NY

[CoreurpletinyNo4ShangriY]

Yep got here around 3. There is only about 7 people in line now

Aha! Thanks! I'll probably show up at about 4:30 then.

[Manxita]

And it has started! Here are some pictures:

https://twitter.com/danifib82/status/273253723373989889/photo/1
http://instagram.com/p/ShDfaBGgC4/
http://instagram.com/p/ShDjf2RKEL/
http://instagram.com/p/ShGFdahw9g/
https://twitter.com/TracyKetcher/status/273262770462543872/photo/1
http://instagram.com/p/ShH-0mhw_V/
http://instagram.com/p/ShIO-ABw_p/
http://instagram.com/p/ShJbOTBwxY/
https://twitter.com/Localbozo/status/273273098130817024/photo/1
http://instagram.com/p/ShNS3dBw1b/

And apparently one of the songs he's played is Desperation #5...hoping for a setlist soon!

(and there is this girl who keeps tweeting idiotic things about Scott and I'm about to fly all the way to NYC to hit her in the head...jeez!)

[pjstp]

Desperation #5!? I am so jealous of those who are there right now. I have always thought that this song would sound really good with his voice now. Hopefully we will find out soon. And I really like that backdrop.

[toysintheattic]

Got a setlist
Opening jam
Crackerman
Paralysis
Killing me sweetly
Black again
Desperation #5
Mockingbird girl
First kiss on mars
Do it for the kids
California jam/ mountain song
Art school girl
Can't stand me now
Lounge fly
Barbarella
Vasoline
Unglued

It was a crazy good show but too tired to write now haha

 

[Purple]

BEAUTIFUL SET!  Only thing I would change is the two covers because I'm not familiar with them.  if they switched them out for 5 to 1 and Revolution I might pee myself with excitement

[Manxita]

Thanks so much for the setlist, toysintheattic! Hope that you'll write a review for us when you're well rested

Black again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ela0Jj2NuXc

[kazuality]

Desperation #5!!!!!!!!! I wanna see this...and art school girl...is a dream!!

[cagedtiger1640]

Wow great setlist.  If only an stp setlist could be this awesome.  Kudos to Scott W

[crackerman 68]

What time did he go on?  Heading down to Asbury Park tonight.

[Manxita]

What time did he go on?  Heading down to Asbury Park tonight.

Judging from the time people started tweeting photos of him, I'd say around 9:30 or 9:40 (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

[Purple]

Thanks so much for the setlist, toysintheattic! Hope that you'll write a review for us when you're well rested

Black again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ela0Jj2NuXc

Just listen to when he sings "As long as I'm beside her" part.  He's articulating each individual word and sounds great!

[thebends]

Just woke up after attending the show.   The show started around 930 although they were saying he was going on at 830. I guess to get you inside so you would spend some cash.
I thought scotts voice sounded really good. There were a bunch of people were I was standing heckling scott saying (play some hits, this show sucks,things about drugs) Scott made
a comment about not playing the same ole boring setlist.  I did see people leaving, not sure if it was due to setlist or it being a monday.All in all thought the show was good, thought
they were better a few years back when I saw them at the starland ballroom.
Met doug outside the venue before show,cool dude.

[Manxita]

Well, clearly he can't please everybody. I read online many complaints about the setlist (mostly of course about him NOT playing hits), when I (and many other people) couldn't be happier about it.

The problem here is that this tour is advertised as a "Greatest Hits" tour...and then there are just a couple of hits and mostly deep cuts. Which I'm totally fine with, but it's kind of false advertising, and I can understand that some people may feel cheated.

Still, I hope Scott doesn't mind the critics and keeps on rocking that amazing setlist!

[JugeSTP]

alright what's up with Scott? He's lost weight and he's articulating he's words now. Listen to any of those clips, he doesn't have the slurred drawl when he says words now. It's making all the difference in his singing and he sounds great. This is the best he's sounded since 2007, because he's actually articulating words and oppose to mumbling them.

I bet if he did an interview now he'd sound 1000x better

[CritterTypeThing]

Can I just say this has been the best Scott performance I've seen in a while!

He looked great!  His voice sounded amazing!  He was dancing all around!  He just seemed to have such a fire that's been missing for a while.  And when the band was jamming and he wanted to articulate a message it all came across loud and clear and was more than cohesive!!
To top that off he went on at 9:33pm and (aside from a 3 minute encore break) rocked straight through until about 11:15pm.  Making 1 hour & 42 minutes the longest I've seen him stay on stage in a while.
The setlist (shared above) was a little of everything and deeper cuts than you'd normally get from any other set.

Put those all together and it's no contest that this far surpassed the past couple of STP performances I've seen.



The audience was pretty packed.  There was your handful of people who just wanted to scream "PLay Barbarella" all night long and a couple demanding STP after every song.  You can't escape a dummy here and there.
Scott really only dipped into his solo stuff, otherwise he threw out a song from each full band release he's been a part of (except No. 4 & Libertad).
The sound was just amazing.  I hope someone was able to tape.

The only other note I can make is that Scott made a couple passing comments and then once very loud and clear that he was  (paraphrasing here but very close to his actual words) "tired to playing boring setlists that never change" and that "this mini-solo tour was to prove the point that rock & roll shouldn't be so much about a perfected set"

I'm guessing that's somewhat a statement on STP shows.  I honestly had always assumed the lack of evolution in STP setlists from night-to-night or tour-to-tour was mostly his doing... We'll see if this desire of his holds up on Wednesday when I go to the Asbury Park show.