2.14.01 - LJVM Annex - Winston-Salem, NC It's Only Me All of You Sweet Emotion tease Candyman Finding Me Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) Japan Matt Solo>Kashmir>Shackled You're a God Give You Back Wash Away>Sean solo>My Favorite Things tease You Say Everything You Want We Are>Extended Jam outro ------------ Signed Sealed Delivered* The Man Who Would Be Santa* *w/ Sister Hazel They played a lot of stuff off of the new CD, but at least it wasn't the entire album this time. That being said, they were really on tonight and were really enjoying themselves up there. Some commnts... The band unveiled a new intro on to the stage. What used to be the drum beat and chanting changed to a newer more "inspriring" music. Ed called it the Batman intro, because there was a spotlight that had the "VH" logo and it spun around the annex and then rested on a huge black back drop. It was pretty cool. The sweet emotion tease was pretty unexpected. They only jammed to it and then sang the chorus. It was good just to see and hear something different I'm not too sure about the new "rockier" Candyman, I still prefer the original or Live Stages version better. The crowd basically sang all of Best I Ever Had. What can I say, Shackled gets better and better everytime they play it. It started out with Matt doing his new intro where he bangs on the body and then strums up near the head of the guitar and does a little solo. That was segued into a full out band jam of Kashmir and it then quited down into just Keith playing the opening of Shackled. Last time I saw them, they did Kashmire>Matt Solo>Shackled. Matt also incorporated some of Kashmir into the solo of Shackled. Wash Away was once again very sweet. It was mostly the same, but the jams were slightly different. Sean's solo was impressive as he started slapping his bass strings up at the top, near the head. The outro to We Are was really good too, but I don't know if it was just them jamming or another small cover/tease. I didn't recognize it, but it sounded good. Also, did a couple new riffs in the song. Both bands came out to do the encore. For Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Matt started the vocals, but mostly it was Sister Hazel's two vocalist doing most of the singing. They had 3 guitars, 2 basses, drums, a shaker, a tambourine, and a djembe up on stage. It was a crowded stage, but they were are having fun. Sean and the bassist from Sister Hazel (sorry, don't know his name, but does anyone else think he looks like a skinny Bill Murray?) were trying to mess eachother up by hitting their bass strings. OK, it mostly Sean doing the provoking. The Santa finale was good, also with Sister Hazel on stage, but most of them just played random percussion instruments. It was just good to hear all of these people singing the intro and the chorus. Matt, once again, almost messed up the final verse, but he caught himself this time. Afterwards, I got to talk to the guys. Mostly about random stuff. Got Sean to sing happy birthday to my friend who turned 22 today! This concert was my birthday present to her. We tried to get Ed to sing too, but he said he can slide out of such things because he's the drummer. I also talked to Ed about the FAQ's, he was very impressed. Matt was the last one to show up. They guys took a shower before coming out, so I was joking with him and I told him we figured he was late because he had gotten shampoo in his eye. He kinda' just stopped and then laughed. I think that's about it for now... swb