Just listened to the boot, and clearly I was mistaken. They open the show with Corduroy and do the call and response. Awkward in the first song and I just didn't remember it happening.

You were too busy making the crowd too loud.

Hey we rocked that show and you know it.

I'm about halfway through Greenville, and the Vs. songs came off great. But the LB songs that come right after sound very tired; seems like they blew their wad early in this show (it'll be interesting to see if the other full-album shows have a similar sound). But overall, it sounds better--technically (no distortion) and performance-wise than the first two I listened to.

You could say this about at least half the shows they've played over the past 5+ years. I can't even list all the shows I've listened to where they sounded great over the first 8-10 songs and started losing steam as the show went along.

Agreed. It's been talked to death in each individual show thread, but it's fascinating how the main set is now the most exciting part of PJ shows--it used to be that the encores were the places they experimented, broke out interesting tunes, or played with setlist order; now they've become very same-y.

I remember at the Portland show three years ago Ed sounded amazing for the first 15-16 songs, screaming and hitting almost every note; by the end of the main set he had nothing left, and any time he needed to dig deep during the encores he had pretty much nothing left. I've heard a bunch of shows over the past few years that fit this pattern.

I'm about half way through Hampton. Been pretty good so far. Also haven't heard any vocal distortion.

Ha! Ed just called somebody a douchebag and told 'em to leave about halfway through Lightning Bolt.

Probably PJEV03

According to Doc, it was. This was covered in the Hampton thread.

What was he doing to get tossed.

Heh

Wow, downtuned 'Oceans' from Columbia sounds like my walkman used to when the batteries were running low

Yeah, I thought that was odd. He's been almost unable to sing that song for years, but even so it was surprising. The rest of the show sounded decent, if a little choppy at times. I didn't notice any static on Ed's vocals, so at least there's that.

Heard "Driven To Tears" from MSG2-16 on PJ Radio this morning, it sounded good. An early contender for the next X-mas single.

An a side note, is it possible that they just edited out the entire frequency range that had the distortion on the most recent bootlegs? Ed's voice sounded really flat in the PHL2 show recording and I don't remember it sounding that bad live. Admittedly, I had earplugs in.

Ordered the cds for Greenville and Lexington last night. Have to wait till Father's Day to get to listen to them, tho.

i've been really impressed by this latest batch of boots. i've given them all a listen apart from columbia and aside from fort lauderdale (one of the worst boots i've heard in a while) they've all been really good. i haven't even heard eddie squeak. perhaps he's been working on his voice, or the longer break between tours has helped. the speed of the songs even seems to be improved (something i noticed on lexington in particular, right from the get go matt seems to be locked into a slower/groovier mode all night. he's also toned down the ridiculous high-school double-kick nonsense that was going on in fort lauderdale).