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Gypsy Tea Room (Ballroom)

Dallas, TX
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11/04/2004
The Blood Brothers
Set 1Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon
Fucking's Greatest Hits
Fucking's Greatest Hits (restart)
Trash Flavored Trash
Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers
?old
Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret
Burn, Piano Island, Burn
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Teen Heat
Celebrator
Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy
Crimes
Jennifer
Set 2Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Mutiny on the Ark of the Blood Brothers
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11/13/2004
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
70715
Set 1Intro
Will You Smile Again
Mistakes and Regrets
It Was There
Homage
Classic Arts Showcase
Days of Being Wild
Caterwaul
Aged Dolls
A Perfect Teenhood
Another Morning Stoner
Richter Scale Madness
How Near, How Far
Totally Natural
CommentFinal Show of Fall US tour
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03/16/2005
Queens of the Stone Age
Set 1Big Bad Wolf Intro
?-new
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
?-new
Everybody Knows that You're Insane
Avon
Broken Box
God is in the Radio(ML)
?-new
Monsters in the Parasol
Burn the Witch (ML)
Little Sister
Hangin Tree (ML)
Song for the Deaf (ML)
Song for the Dead (ML)
Go with the Flow
I Think I Lost My Headache
Set 2Mexicola
Regular John
Comment(ML) - Mark Lanegan on vocals
Josh Homme
Joey Castillo
Alain Johannes
Natasha Shneider
Troy Van Leeuwan
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10/25/2005
The Blood Brothers
Set 1Trash Flavored Trash
Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers
My First Kiss at the Public Execution
Ambulance vs. Ambulance
Wolf Party
Crimes
Guitarmy
Beautiful Horses
Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy
Feed Me to the Forest
Teen Heat
Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon
Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Commentopened for
Coheed & Cambria
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01/14/2006
G. Love & Special Sauce
75130
Set 1Wrapping Beats
Drop It
No Turning Back
Let's Make Love Tonight
Jersey
Stepping Stones
I-76
This Ain't Livin'
Dreamin'
Cold Beverage #
Set 2Deep Ellum Blues *
Rainbow *
Rodeo Clowns **
Blues Music >
Walk On The Wildside
Give It To You @
Booty Call
Ring The Alarm
party
Get Your Shit Together
Comment# - w/ Gold Digger rap
* - G love solo acoustic
** - G Love and Houseman acoustic
@ - Chuck Trese on vocals

G. Love - Vocals, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar
Jimi Jazz - Bass
Houseman - Drums
Mark Boyce - Keys
Chuck Trese - Drums
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01/25/2006
High On Fire
Set 1Blood From Zion
Face of Oblivion
Blessed Black Wings
10,000 Yrs
Cometh Down Hessian
Nemesis
Thraft of Cannan
Silverback
To Cross the Bridge
Set 2Razorhoof
Devilution
CommentBlessed Black Wings Tour with
The Bronx, Big Business and Buried Inside

Joe Preston on Bass
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07/21/2006
Ray Davies
Set 1I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
Till the End of the Day
After The Fall
All She Wrote
Creatures Of Little Faith
Over My Head
Run Away from Time
The Tourist
All Day and All of the Night
A Long Way From Home
The Getaway (Lonesome Train)
You Really Got Me
Low Budget
Comment12:42 PM CDT on Monday, July 24, 2006
By TOM MAURSTAD / The Dallas Morning News


Normally, you'd expect modest circumstances when seeing a singer-songwriter touring to support his first solo album. In that context, a bar and performance space like Gypsy Tea Room and an audience of a few hundred seems completely appropriate for the occasion.

But normal isn't a word readily conjured by Ray Davies, former Kinks frontman and rock legend, and so these modest circumstances couldn't help but feel slightly surreal on Friday night. That's a point he hammered home with his opener, the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else."

The song is an archetypal rock anthem, on par with the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" or the Who's "My Generation." But instead of the usual atmosphere you associate with the triumphant return of a rock classic – a sold-out stadium, a jampacked arena – Mr. Davies uncorked his anthem from the center of a small stage tucked in the corner of a club that wasn't even half full.

If that sounds a bit dreary or deflated, it was, in fact, anything but.

Backed by a four-piece band and wearing a sport coat that he soon enough shed, Mr. Davies was a charming and chatty host between songs. And during the songs he ranged back and forth between an ageless idol, kicking and contorting and slashing at his guitar, and an elder storyteller, spinning webs of words and melody into striking vignettes of love and loss, isolation and embrace.

Here's another "normal" expectation that Mr. Davies' performance cut against: With the evening's setup – rock legend appearing in support of a new album before an audience of the good old days devoted – you would expect a night of highs and lows, with the highs being the ecstatic reception greeting every old song and the lows being the polite endurance of every new one.

And, sure enough, when Mr. Davies followed the opening Kinks song with two more – "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" and "Till the End of the Day" – it was sustained, singalong pandemonium. Far from transforming into a field of statues when he then strapped on an acoustic guitar and segued into a set of songs from his new album, Other People's Lives (even he couldn't help but laugh when he mentioned it as his "first solo album"), the audience greeted the new material with either rapt attention or let's-dance enthusiasm. That is, in a sign-of-the-times sight, when they weren't holding up cellphones to take pictures or video.

By the end of the show, he had taken the club through a 50-minute set ending with a rollicking version of "All Day and All of the Night" and two encores, the first climaxing with "You Really Got Me" and the second consisting of the single-song closer, "Low Budget." Along the way, he played the perfect host sharing amusing anecdotes (for instance, how Decca executives dismissed the Kinks' first recordings because the guitar sounded like a barking dog – "Yeah, but what a great bark").

What becomes a legend most? On this night, a small club and an intimate crowd did the trick.
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