Second
Tour Show Review: from Bill
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- Soul
Asylum @ SXSW
- South by
Southwest Music Conference in Austin. Stubbs on Thursday,
March 19, at 1:00 a.m
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- As
previously reported, SA played a showcase last night at South by
Southwest here in lovely Austin, Texas, and it was as good as I'd
hoped for. This was something around my tenth time seeing them over
the past nine years, and, though I certainly still miss the slightly
more freewheeling shows of the Horse era, it was a great
performance.
- Though I
can't be entirely positive, the playlist from the LA show is very
close to what they played last night, which would make sense given
the newness of the current lineup. It really seems like the
songwriting has gotten back up from what was, in my view, a bit of a
slump for Dim Light.
- Virtually
every song sounded like something that could be on the radio and
successful without disappointing long-time fans.
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- The new
drummer fits very well, though, as the LA reviewer noted, there were
occasional glitches. He certainly looks like he's having fun most of
the time, and the interaction among the bandmembers suggests that
they're getting along well.
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- The only
real disappointment was at the end. For a few minutes it looked like
they were going to do an encore (which would have been allowed
because SA was the last of a series of bands) based on the roadies
tuning guitars, etc. But then after about, oh, four or five minutes,
they turned up all
- the lights
and we all left. Oh well.
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- Pretty
good crowd for being a pretty chilly outside performance. (By the
end of the show it was about 45F.) It wasn't up to the volume of
folks at the Jayhawks showcase at the same venue last year, but it
was still a large and enthusiastic crowd.
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- -Bill
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