The Long Winters

Wow. This is exceedingly rare, and just posted, but will make your day:

Western State Hurricanes Live at the Showbox April 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEft3m1yJ9c

Excellent find! Yes - these were all the professional style cameras I saw. So glad this was documented. In this now strange world we live in, I am eternally grateful that the timing of this reunion was before everything went to hell.

So, before some more personal details, this guy on Twitter kinda summed up all the feels. It's a thread of like 5 tweets, but I'll just put them all here. https://twitter.com/MikeTaffet/status/1226590826916012032?s=20 "Despite living on the East Coast, the Seattle music scene has been responsib...

Setlist! Same both nights, with one exception.... Unsalted Butter Through with Love Medicine Cabinet Pirate Samaritan Mimi Seven Days of Wondering Pictures in an Exhibition (Death Cab Cover) Delicate Hands Carparts Copernicus Encore: Big Dipper (Built to Spill Cover) Cinnamon Smells Like Teen Spirit...

It seems relevant to spread the word here too https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/western-state-hurricanes-debut-lp#/ With your help, Latent Print Records is very proud to announce that we will be releasing the oft whispered about unfinished recordings of the Western State Hurricanes for the first ti...

NYC details:

Bowery Ballroom
Friday, October 18th
7:30
TLW with:
Eleanor Friedberger, Reuben and the Dark, Kan Wakan, Promised Land Sound

http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/364 ... n-new-york

Tickets go on sale this Friday at noon.

This would appear to be NYC show John was referring to...

http://www.cmj.com/news/cmj-2013-initia ... t-line-up/

OK... am I actually thinking of flying out for this? Did I just price flights? Did I actually think... "Well, I could fly into Seattle Friday, go to the show... then since it will be late I can hang out til last call and then go straight to the airport, so then I don't have to get a hotel room...

Liesbeth wrote:WOW

Seconded

I realized Yahoo! won't let anyone sign up for more than 4 teams on one name...so that's how I was getting the error message. Stupid rules.

Maximum teams already reached! Too late to get in?

Count me in!

[MagLev is short for magnetic levitation, a 'futuristic' transportation technology using powerful magnets instead of the tracks and wheels of conventional train travel... Not to mention super fast. They want to, but it ain't gonna happen, put one connecting Baltimore and D.C. Total travel time: les...

The intro plays on loop for a solid 2-3 min. I had no idea what the show was about except that at the end of the segment, and hence the end of the loop, the guy lost his girlfriend and the girl he was fooling around with. I saw no reason to continue watching...

Now try here:

http://community.webshots.com/user/tradesalot

Oh, limited amount of pictures here:

http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?& ... 9790371105

I just got home and I'm off to class, but I'll add to the general consensus that it was f'in awesome. I met a guy from Baltimore who's probably from one or the other of the boards in line (didn't really occur to me at the time...), but I was my typical shy self once inside and rocked out by myself ...

[/quote] That's a pretty sweet setlist. :)[/quote]

Indeed. I was yelling out for Coming Down too, but alas, you can't always get what you want. Good sized crowd too -- with lots of fan requests and interaction. Quite possibly the best LW show I've been to!

In no particular order:

Blue Diamonds -- with John on bass
Scared Straight
Shapes
Cinnamon/Cinnamon Girl
Itll Be A Breeze
Stupid
Prom Night
New Girl
Carparts
Medicine Cabinet
Unsalted Butter

We were the 3 dancing fools in the front row -- If you remember the "You rock my socks" comment...with John showing us his colorful socks afterward......that was us. The show -- in a word: awesome. First time hearing Cinnamon laced with Cinnamon Girl -- and it melted my friends hearts, literally. Gr...