DP/ELP/DT show-San Francisco-Warfield Theater
Review of the San Francisco show last night, 8/28/98, now that I've partially recovered ;-).The setlist appears to be identical to the previous show in Colorado Aug. 26 I now notice, which was:
- Ted the Mechanic
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Bludsucker
- Pictures of Home
- Almost Human
- Woman From Tokyo
- Watching the Sky
- Any Fule Kno That
- Steve Morse solo
- Smoke on the Water
- Lazy
- Perfect Strangers
- Speed King-snippet of Not Fade Away-Lord/Morse dueling-Paicey solo
Encore: - Highway Star
Great energy from the crowd and the band last night. General admission floor in a smaller theater definitiely the way to go with this tour. I was right up front, in front of IG, sounded fine. IG sang real well for the first 7-8 numbers, lost a bit in the middle (still coughed a bit-stopped once to take "medicine"), finished up strong. Steve sounded good, solo went on longer than House of Blues show, was OK. Lord was real good, hard to hear at times, but when I did was super. Some idiot in the audience threw his shoes toward the stage at mid show! One landed in the little pit, buffering stage-audience, almost in front of me, the other almost hit Jon I heard. He seemed furious after that, but soldiered on. Low point that moment for sure. He was fine minutes later. Paicey and RG were awesome, both were so on at what they do. Smoke was done a bit slower tempo than I'm used to, Perfect Strangers seemed to not be tight, tempo wavered some. Any Fule was great! Women from Tokyo right on. Power of Bludsucker and Speed King have to be felt in person. Lazy was a treat. Highway Star ended in amazing frenzy by fans and the band! Other songs done well. Great show, as good as second LA HOB show I saw. Saw Wolf, Mark Bryant, several local folks from AOL, amdp, DPWWW posts, Dana, etc. Just got a quick hi into Colin Hart, nice to see him in San Fran. :-) Logistics made this show a lot of work for the crews, they worked their tails off with little room to work with for three bands, moved a lot of equipment in great time with no room virtually! Deep Purpl on Marquee of Theater, the last "E" fell off and was never put back up (Wolf should have photo)! 11 years since they played here till last night, we shouldn't have to wait another 11 years for another DP San Fran. show! Come back in due time, DP. :-)
Michael Friedman
Oakland, CA USA
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