ALO 2008-02-15 Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz, CA

[+Irie Pete]

Animal Liberation Orchestra
2008-02-15
Moe's Alley
Santa Cruz, CA

Set I
01. Pobrecito
02. Mashed Potatoes
03. Try
04. Walls of Jericho
05. All Alone
06. Shine
07. Sweetheart *
08. Silly Love Songs ^
09. BBQ

Set II

10. SCRALET BEGONIAS > @
11. Shapeshifter
12. Fly
13. Spectrum *
14. Possible Drown %
15. Busy Killing Time > Heart of Glass &
16. Lady Loop
17. Haji Memashite

Encore 1:

18. Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down
19. Maria

Encore 2:
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) $

Notes:
* w/ Nat Keefe of HBRSB, guitar
^ Paul McCartney cover, first time played
@ Grateful Dead cover, first time played
% w/ Sean Leahy, guitar
& Blondie cover
$ Hall & Oats cover

Thanks to Kay Lawrence for the setlist

[UMdew11]

I like the way this show looks as well.



hoping to hear this in the near future ;)

[plasticbubbleboy]

Great setlist from top to bottom. Loved the covers, Silly Love Songs was fun, and Scarlet was awesome! Lebo really sounded great on it.

Great finish...I can't go for that sounded great, was hoping for Purple Rain but still left happy!

[Bundis]

Got stuck in the line for first two songs. Better late than never! Purchased a new ALO hat to keep me warm. Then I grabbed a Sierra Nevada and settled in. Try had a nice new feel to it as did Walls of Jericho. Both were played with a new beat that lead into some sweet grooves. Nice new versions! Lebo playing in the middle on Shine gave me chills it had a Pink Floyd sound to it. I immediatly looked into my drink to make sure there wasn't a little tab floating around causing this sensation. There wasn't! BBQ was a nice way to wrap up the first set or anything for that matter.

2nd set opener Scarlet Begonias was a suprise and sounded great. You could tell who the deadheads were with those ear to ear smiles. Loved it! And in true Grateful Dead fashion they jammed right into Shapeshifter effortlessly. Of all the ALO tunes to jam into shapeshifter was the perfect call. A Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain would've been asking to much. Maybe someday? This was my 12th ALO show and my first Fly. I was very happy about that too. Possibly Drown and Lady Loop were funktastic as always. Haji got every going again after na na na na a-thon. Encore one brought us Girl & Maria. The santa cruz crowd was relentless and demanded more and the guys felt the love and came back out for one more. I can't go for that cover lead to the crowd singing this one to an end as ALO had left the building. Great show back were it all started for me in April of 2006. Smooty bass playing impresses me more each time I see them. He is the funky back bone. These guys aren't affraid to try new covers. Does any band sing with as much soul as these guys do? I was trying to think of way to describe there music but the best i could come up with was "The Funky Soul Medina"! Got a good night sleep before Truckin' off to Petaluma!

-Dan

[plasticbubbleboy]

Does anyone know if there were any tapers at this show?

[+Irie Pete]

Dr. Bob said he did not see any tapers at Moe's

[plasticbubbleboy]

If anything becomes available please keep me posted.