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Had the opportunity to see EELS at First Ave last Friday. The new album, Wonderful, Glorious, would appeal to fans here, I believe. The Chet was in fine form. There were a number of “The Chet” fans who were fairly boisterous in between songs. E mentioned the strange amount of “bro love”, said, “OK we get it, you love Chet, now shut up” and moved on. To me there are many similarities in the music that they are playing and the Buick 6 sound.
Thanks Tony, since I’m completely bored at work, I’ll go on. At one point E announced that Chet had been with him for 10 years. So, they had a little ceremony, E taking Chet as his guitar player, Chet taking E as his band leader. Humorous but not comparable to Lu and Tom’s ceremony. The shtick they are working this tour appears to be when each member is introduced, E says something like, “Great picking, Give me a hug.” And an embrace ensues. The men were all decked out in what looked to be Adidas track suits. One thing in general that I liked about the show was each member had what looked like 18″ – 24″ risers that sat on the stage. This made the sight lines excellent, even when standing on the main floor. Seems like a good idea since my wife is shorter than most.
I’ve been a fan since A Man Called E, way back when and this was my first opportunity to see Mr. Everett. It was fantastic, and if any are in the path of this tour, I would recommend it.
Good stuff. I was planning to attend the second show of the tour in Hollywood but had to bail due to a bad cold. I was looking forward to seeing them.
Here’s a much better review of the Minneapolis show…
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/02/eels_at_first_avenue_concert_review.php
just in case some of you guys speaking or understanding german…just found this interesting review about the eels – here on artistxite
http://artistxite.de/de/album/2122315/Wonderful-Glorious.html for more infos, i just found an english version of the artistpage – http://artistxite.com/uk/artist/4472/Eels.html.Dont wanna spam or so… just wanna share these infos 🙂 in case someone wanna replace this post or so, just tell me.
cheers!
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