March 10, 2007 Avalon, Boston - reviews

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:56 pm**

Lovely review here

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:43 pm**

Just wondering if it was just me, did anyone else think they
saw Daryl Hunt at Boston Beerworks before Saturday's show??

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:19 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
Quincy Dan wrote:Philip, thank you for the information and Corey thank you for your investigation.

Philip, when Shane made the dedication to Ronnie Drew, did I hear Spider say that he was recovering or doing better? I certainly hope that is the case.

Ronnie is on a slow recovery but it does appear, at least, to be a recovery.

Cheers for the update Phil, here's hoping to see him back on stage again.

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:51 pm**

I saw someone with a Galway rugby jersey....I was at the edge of the stairs on the right...
it really was great when we were all singing the words to Dirty Old Town haha....the encore was great too

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:19 am**

Well, all I can say is I had an absolute blast. If I could do that every weekend I would be a truly happy individual, or happier anyway. The Sunnyside bit was hilarious. Dirty Old Town was fun. Young Ned Of The Hill was my highlight of the evening, that song gets me all types of fired up. I failed in my goal to get a photo with the boys, perhaps next year.
Oh yeah, I missed William Elliott Whitmore last year because there was no alcohol allowed in the theatre so I'd never heard him. Man that guy has some SOUL in his voice. Bring him back next time around.

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:01 pm**

Corey S. Sullivan wrote:Oh yeah, I missed William Elliott Whitmore last year because there was no alcohol allowed in the theatre so I'd never heard him. Man that guy has some SOUL in his voice. Bring him back next time around.

Totally agree here. Ended up buying three extra of his new cd to give out to friends. Everyone should hear this guy. It was that, or a WEW skateboard for myself and my old ass does not need to be up on a board anytime soon.

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:14 pm**

dj_evol_eno wrote:
Corey S. Sullivan wrote:Oh yeah, I missed William Elliott Whitmore last year because there was no alcohol allowed in the theatre so I'd never heard him. Man that guy has some SOUL in his voice. Bring him back next time around.

Totally agree here. Ended up buying three extra of his new cd to give out to friends. Everyone should hear this guy. It was that, or a WEW skateboard for myself and my old ass does not need to be up on a board anytime soon.

Louise Neville-Stacy got herself a skateboard too. I'm no expert, but to my untutored eye it appears to lack a forward-motion mechanism. "You could use it to skate on the snow", offered Jem, before going off to invent the wheel. We all agreed that the idea of a Willie skateboard was better than any practical function it might have.

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:46 pm**

philipchevron wrote:I'm no expert, but to my untutored eye it appears to lack a forward-motion mechanism.

LOL!

At Saturday's show, Shane (I think) made some welcome disparaging remark about one or more of the bozos in the White House and then mentioned a Special Prosecutor from NYC (I think) that we should support.

Did anybody catch the name?

Thanks,

Iver

going through live Pogues (and seeing old friends and drinking many pints in the pub with them) withdrawal...

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:53 pm**

Iver wrote:
philipchevron wrote:I'm no expert, but to my untutored eye it appears to lack a forward-motion mechanism.

LOL!

At Saturday's show, Shane (I think) made some welcome disparaging remark about one or more of the bozos in the White House and then mentioned a Special Prosecutor from NYC (I think) that we should support.

Did anybody catch the name?

Thanks,

Iver

going through live Pogues (and seeing old friends and drinking many pints in the pub with them) withdrawal...

I catch about as much or as little of Shane's banter as anyone else, so I may have missed this. On a couple of nights on this tour I dedicated "Thousands Are Sailing" to Patrick Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn-born (I think) special prosecutor who inexplicably fell off Dick Cheney's Christmas Card list. Perhaps this was the reference? On Sunday, I dedicated the same song to the memory of Robert Kennedy, in the unspoken acknowledgment that the USA once had Attorneys General worthy of the job-description. There ain't half been some badass Irish-Americans in your history - and not all of them in Tammany Hall either - but these days one needs to fight the prevailing notion that those who tried to make a positive difference to their New World were somehow naive, stupid, hopelessly idealistic or - to borrow a word from another poster - pussies.

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:46 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
Iver wrote:
philipchevron wrote:I'm no expert, but to my untutored eye it appears to lack a forward-motion mechanism.

LOL!

I catch about as much or as little of Shane's banter as anyone else, so I may have missed this. On a couple of nights on this tour I dedicated "Thousands Are Sailing" to Patrick Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn-born (I think) special prosecutor who inexplicably fell off Dick Cheney's Christmas Card list. Perhaps this was the reference? On Sunday, I dedicated the same song to the memory of Robert Kennedy, in the unspoken acknowledgment that the USA once had Attorneys General worthy of the job-description. There ain't half been some badass Irish-Americans in your history - and not all of them in Tammany Hall either - but these days one needs to fight the prevailing notion that those who tried to make a positive difference to their New World were somehow naive, stupid, hopelessly idealistic or - to borrow a word from another poster - pussies.

True, Philip, true. But at least they are admitting when they are wrong these days. Hah! Make it stop!

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:54 pm**

Maybe this is him making good on his campaign promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:58 pm**

DzM wrote:Maybe this is him making good on his campaign promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."

HAH! We can only wish...a lot...but it ain't gonna happen.

**Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:06 am**

A good reason to keep away from the inside of the beltway in D.C.. There seems to be something in the air, the water , the food, the something.

On Saturday there was, i believe, no dedication, but rather a greeting for "Beantown".

**Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:36 am**

Quincy Dan wrote:
On Saturday there was, i believe, no dedication, but rather a greeting for "Beantown".

Which, I am confident a bootleg will reveal in due course, I somehow managed to pronounce "Beetown".

**Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:40 am**

philipchevron wrote:
dj_evol_eno wrote:Ended up buying three extra of his new cd to give out to friends. Everyone should hear this guy. It was that, or a WEW skateboard for myself and my old ass does not need to be up on a board anytime soon.

Louise Neville-Stacy got herself a skateboard too. I'm no expert, but to my untutored eye it appears to lack a forward-motion mechanism. "You could use it to skate on the snow", offered Jem, before going off to invent the wheel. We all agreed that the idea of a Willie skateboard was better than any practical function it might have.

I'm no expert either, but I do know this much: it is a skateboard deck. I have one myself, purely for decorative purposes. It is Will's artwork that graces the decks, but whoever made them mistakenly included his little diagram as well (that was just meant to show them where he wanted the drawing placed.)

March 10, 2007 Avalon, Boston - reviews

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