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TMS2787
10/20/08, 11:03 PM
Minus The Bear/The New Year/The Uglysuit
Monday September 20, 2008
Grog Shop
Cleveland Heights, OH

We missed The Ugly Suit.

We saw a song or two of The New Year but they were the type of band that was hard to get in to if you don't previously know them, it was too quite and everyone was too loud.

I had never listened to much Minus The Bear before the show tonight except for two or three times and I enjoyed what I heard. I didn't know what to expect going in to the show and seeing them but it was nothing short of a wonderful show. The band sounded great the, they were tight and dead on and the near capicty crowd ate it up the whole for the whole show. And I couldn't help but move along and love almost every second of it. I wasn't a big fan of the mid-set two acoustic songs, I didn't like the sound of this band in an acoustic setting and it was a bit of a downer for me. After those luckily I was able to fall right back in to it and loved the rest of the show. They played for a little over an hour.

Lotus
Shapes
The Game Needed Me
The Pig War
Dr. L'ing
When We Escape
New Song
Guns And Ammo [Acoustic]
Pachuca Sunrise [Acoustic]
???
I Lost All My Money At The Cockfights
Knights
Drilling
Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse

The song with the "???" was a song they claimed that is hardly ever (maybe he said never?) played but often requested and the crowd went nuts for it, I could have swore he said "this is the first time it's being played" but I could be wrong.

It was $9.00 and my time well spent, I'd go see them again undoubtly.

Petzl
10/21/08, 08:23 AM
Awesome, i'm going to see them friday. I'm glad they took out White Mystery and put in Absinthe instead. Would you recognize the name of the ??? song if you saw it? I'm really curious as to what it is...

Judging from this setlist: http://www.showmethesetlist.com/bands/Minus_The_Bear/4239.php

I'd guess that it's Houston, We Have Uh-Oh.

guitarliketom
10/21/08, 09:27 AM
i saw a previous set recently that they playhed uh oh at.

im upset at the lack of we are not a football team acousitc or at all :(

other than that awesome. i love lotus as an opener

fightoffyrdmns
10/21/08, 11:26 AM
Oh man if they play Uh Oh in Richmond Monday I am going to be so stoked!

TMS2787
10/21/08, 08:56 PM
Awesome, i'm going to see them friday. I'm glad they took out White Mystery and put in Absinthe instead. Would you recognize the name of the ??? song if you saw it? I'm really curious as to what it is...

Judging from this setlist: http://www.showmethesetlist.com/bands/Minus_The_Bear/4239.php

I'd guess that it's Houston, We Have Uh-Oh.
No, I wouldn't recongize it if I heard and/or saw it because like I said, I don't know their stuff. But he did say people always request the song, they never play it and most people went nuts when they played it.

imemokillme
10/21/08, 10:55 PM
they played the acoustic songs live?!?!? fuck thats awesome...

Stupendous_Man
10/23/08, 05:59 PM
I just saw them last night, 10-22-08 at the 9:30 club in DC. The setlist was pretty much the same except instead of Uh Oh they played Burying Luck and began the encore with The Fix.

Lotus
Thrown' Shapes
Women We Haven't Met Yet
The Game Needed Me
The Pig War
Dr. L'ling
Double Vision Quest
New Song
Guns And Ammo (acoustic)
Pachuca Sunrise (acoustic)
Burying Luck
I Lost All My Money At The Cockfights
Knights
Drilling

Encore:
The Fix
Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse

TMS2787
10/24/08, 01:50 AM
Did they go off before the encore ? Because before the second to last song they said they were done but then "had time" to play one more and closed with "Party".

Stupendous_Man
10/24/08, 08:53 AM
Yea they left the stage after Drilling. Then they came back for "one or two more songs."