DECEMBER 21st 2012
VALENTINE'S
ALBANY, NY
Day Gravity Stopped Tour
Set 1
To Throw Us
No Time Is the Wrong Time to Groove
The Recap
Everything You Had
I Was Dreaming
Back to Being
Public Transportation
One Good Night (Rumor cover)
The Central Stumble
I'm In A Kinks Mood
Waterloo Sunset (Kinks cover)
Always Time
Wait Till Dawn
Painted Panel Basement
Waiting for the Sun to Rise
Fault Line
Set 2 : with Guy Lyons
Opening Night
The Daylight Strong
Racing Around
Said Enough
Wait on Your Shoulders
Cat
Not Involved
Please, One More Time
Excuse the Lame Excuse
Merry Christmas Girl (Jed Parrish cover)
Bus
Chevy Nova
Bad Luck Sammie
This Copy's Mine
Kill Me Now
We'll Be Doing Time
Do the Bounce
A Most Significant Time
Getting Down With L.T.D.
If That's What You Want
The Noose Was Tight
Encore
She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man) (Husker Du cover)
Tint
Ginger
Every Night (Paul McCartney cover)
Choker
Reject
Something's Wrong
Live Review
From: Nippertown.com
Posted: Dec.27.2012
"Rock and roll is not complicated. Its force and majesty is all about the simple. Some of the best songs are just short, everyday phrases, repeated twice or three times. The Figgs are such masters of this craft that they made your correspondent and the 75 or so other party hounds at Valentine’s Music Hall in Albany last Friday night forget about everything happening outside its walls
(as well as whatever was going on upstairs?)
In 25 years of performing together, they’ve nailed it – they are “riff-meisters” – each song starts with some kind of primal musical figure, and they make it sound like a challenge or a call to arms – Mike Gent’s guitar tone is searing while being clear, articulate, devastating, wrenching and elegant. Pete Hayes hops about on his drum stool like a one-man locomotive engine – when he’s not standing up on it, ready to plunge down at the exact moment into a final thundering smashing, crashing finale to their churning, grooving 3-minute song. For a ’90’s band, bassist Pete Donnelly doesn’t look a day over 17, but he sure does lope over the fretboard like an ancient blues master, delivering a perfectly entrancing subterranean pulse.
They must have an intellectual side, though – the crowd had a definite Nordic, Scandinavian vibe, close-cropped hair, knit caps and a scarf or two – and the sing-along lines, which everybody knew, were pensive laments, like “I don’t do… that no more…,” when they weren’t gospel shouts of “Yeah, you, motherfucker!” The basic content of all the lyrics might boil down to “I’ve been thinking about you…,” but for sure the major take-away is this is THE most solid, pouncing, lift-me-offa-my-feet music heaven will allow.
Resurrected member Guy Lyons joined in for a second set, bringing yet another layer of keening yet melty guitar tone. You know the way Pink Floyd has such a smooth sonic sound? If you sped that way up, so it would gallop along, punching and stamping, that’s these guys. Naturally they leapt off-stage at the very end for a final sizzling spell of crackling, explosive guitar dueling.
No wonder they are legends."
- Joel Patterson
Set 1
To Throw Us
No Time Is the Wrong Time to Groove
The Recap
Everything You Had
I Was Dreaming
Back to Being
Public Transportation
One Good Night (Rumor cover)
The Central Stumble
I'm In A Kinks Mood
Waterloo Sunset (Kinks cover)
Always Time
Wait Till Dawn
Painted Panel Basement
Waiting for the Sun to Rise
Fault Line
Set 2 : with Guy Lyons
Opening Night
The Daylight Strong
Racing Around
Said Enough
Wait on Your Shoulders
Cat
Not Involved
Please, One More Time
Excuse the Lame Excuse
Merry Christmas Girl (Jed Parrish cover)
Bus
Chevy Nova
Bad Luck Sammie
This Copy's Mine
Kill Me Now
We'll Be Doing Time
Do the Bounce
A Most Significant Time
Getting Down With L.T.D.
If That's What You Want
The Noose Was Tight
Encore
She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man) (Husker Du cover)
Tint
Ginger
Every Night (Paul McCartney cover)
Choker
Reject
Something's Wrong
Live Review
From: Nippertown.com
Posted: Dec.27.2012
"Rock and roll is not complicated. Its force and majesty is all about the simple. Some of the best songs are just short, everyday phrases, repeated twice or three times. The Figgs are such masters of this craft that they made your correspondent and the 75 or so other party hounds at Valentine’s Music Hall in Albany last Friday night forget about everything happening outside its walls
(as well as whatever was going on upstairs?)
In 25 years of performing together, they’ve nailed it – they are “riff-meisters” – each song starts with some kind of primal musical figure, and they make it sound like a challenge or a call to arms – Mike Gent’s guitar tone is searing while being clear, articulate, devastating, wrenching and elegant. Pete Hayes hops about on his drum stool like a one-man locomotive engine – when he’s not standing up on it, ready to plunge down at the exact moment into a final thundering smashing, crashing finale to their churning, grooving 3-minute song. For a ’90’s band, bassist Pete Donnelly doesn’t look a day over 17, but he sure does lope over the fretboard like an ancient blues master, delivering a perfectly entrancing subterranean pulse.
They must have an intellectual side, though – the crowd had a definite Nordic, Scandinavian vibe, close-cropped hair, knit caps and a scarf or two – and the sing-along lines, which everybody knew, were pensive laments, like “I don’t do… that no more…,” when they weren’t gospel shouts of “Yeah, you, motherfucker!” The basic content of all the lyrics might boil down to “I’ve been thinking about you…,” but for sure the major take-away is this is THE most solid, pouncing, lift-me-offa-my-feet music heaven will allow.
Resurrected member Guy Lyons joined in for a second set, bringing yet another layer of keening yet melty guitar tone. You know the way Pink Floyd has such a smooth sonic sound? If you sped that way up, so it would gallop along, punching and stamping, that’s these guys. Naturally they leapt off-stage at the very end for a final sizzling spell of crackling, explosive guitar dueling.
No wonder they are legends."
- Joel Patterson
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